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One of the great, but still very underrated female pop stars, Samantha Fox rose to fame in the early 1980s as a hugely successful Page 3 girl, though she maintains that her real love was always singing. She gave up her modelling career, and embarked on an equally fruitful journey as a pop singer in 1986. Her records would go onto sell big in countries all over the world. In fact, she became so popular elsewhere, that for her years she was rarely seen in the UK, because she had so much work aboard.
This nicely packaged, unofficial 'Best Of' album from 2000, only contains ten tracks, so it doesn't offer the best value for money (and really, you'd be better off buying
Greatest Hits
instead), but as a neat little snapshot of her career, it does the job.
Her best-selling debut single 'Touch Me (I Want Your Body)', is still her signature song, and as such, opens the album up. The other hits on here are 'Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)', 'I Wanna Have Some Fun', 'Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)', and 'I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)'. The album closes with her unsuccessful 1992 single 'Just One Night', and the remaining four tracks appeared on her studio albums only (and 'Your House or My House' is a pop gem). In terms of major 'hits', the only ones really missing are 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now', and her cover of Dusty Springfield's 'I Only Want to Be with You'.
If you like the sound of contemporary 1980s pop music from female stars who can really sing, then Sam Fox's material is completely typical of that decade, and such good fun. Complete with the cheesy synthesisers going around in the background, listeners should find it very easy to slide one of her CDs in alongside the decade's other girl singing sensations like Kim Wilde, Debbie Gibson, and Tiffany, and appreciate the magic of the loveable Sam, who was quite the versatile artist, and could really 'rock'.
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