Noosha Fox

Noosha Fox (born Susan Traynor, 8 December 1944) is an Australian singer. She is known as the lead singer of the British-based pop band Fox, who had three UK chart hits in 1975 and 1976. She also had a number 31 hit as a solo performer with "Georgina Bailey".

Career Susan Traynor was born in Australia in 1944. She began her music career as a singer in Sydney-based folk rock band Wooden Horse, who moved to England in 1970 and released two LPs. After the band split up, she provided background vocals on American singer and songwriter Kenny Young's 1973 solo album, Last Stage For Silverworld.

She then formed Fox, the band that included Young and Northern Irish singer-songwriter Herbie Armstrong. She adopted the stage name Noosha, a corruption of an anagram of her first name (nussa), and in performances wore dresses and accessories in 1920s and 1930s style. With Fox, Noosha achieved three top 20 hits on the UK Singles Chart: "Only You Can" and "Imagine Me, Imagine You" in 1975 and "S-S-S-Single Bed" in 1976. She left after their third album, Blue Hotel, to launch a solo career. Her first single, "Georgina Bailey", written and produced by Young, briefly entered the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 31 in 1977.

Fox recorded several singles in the early 1980s for the Earlobe label but none were successful, and she withdrew from the music industry. but it was not released.

On 1 August 2022, renowned music producer Shel Talmy released a 5-track downloadable EP of original songs by Noosha which had been recorded in 1978.

Personal life Fox has been married since 1973 to physician and academic Michael Goldacre, with whom she has four children, one of whom is Ben Goldacre, a physician and academic best known for his "Bad Science" weekly column. Ben Goldacre announced that Fox was his mother after seeing her perform "S-S-S-Single Bed" on a BBC4 repeat of Top of the Pops, and stated that she was working on new material.

Discography Year Title Format Label Catalogue ref Chart position 1977 "Georgina Bailey" / "Pretty Boy" 7" single GTO GT 106 No. 91 AUS, No. 31 UK 1979 "The Heat Is On" / "Some Enchanted Evening" 7" single CHRYSALIS CHS 2337 1979 "Skin Tight" / "Miss You" 7" single CHRYSALIS CHS 2383 1981 "More Than Molecules" / "Odd Peculiar Strange" 7" single EARLOBE ELB S 101 1981 "Hot As Sun" / "The Cheapest Night" 7" single EARLOBE ELB S 105 Source: