However, it was Black Lace who represented Britain at the contest, coming seventh. In 1979, the group competed to perform the UK’s entry for the Eurovision song contest, and their song Harry My Honolulu Lover was regarded as certain to earn them selection. That year, Denise Nolan left the group to develop a solo career, and the others continued as a quartet. Their earliest singles on EMI and Target Records misfired, but in 1978 they reached No 3 on the UK album chart with 20 Giant Hits, a set of cover versions of pop standards such as Sailing, The Way We Were and Song Sung Blue. We weren’t pretentious or obnoxious, we could just sing.” Bernie and Linda, still in their teens, had tutors accompanying them on tour so they could keep up with their school work. They were the support act on Frank Sinatra’s 1975 European tour and accompanied Rolf Harris on dates in South Africa.īernie recalled: “People like the Two Ronnies and Val Doonican liked working with us because we were not showbizzy kids. The five siblings began performing as the Nolan Sisters in 1974 and gained priceless exposure to a mainstream audience from appearing on Cliff Richard’s television programme, and then with Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies. It was just fabulous – Jesy had no idea it was going to be happening,” she revealed.Bernie Nolan, who has died of cancer aged 52, was the youngest of the original Nolan Sisters lineup, whose cheerful, unthreatening, middle-of-the-road pop made them one of Britain’s best known acts from the late 1970s to the mid-80s. “I’m not going to do it any more and I feel that chapter is finally closed.”Ĭoleen Nolan was over the moon when, in 2015, her son Jake popped the question to Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson.Īnd, speaking to Loose Women, she spilled all the details about the happy event, which took place at the Key 103 Summer Live concert. But it’s also too short to spend your life being made to feel sad or guilty by somebody who supposedly loves you. “People say that life’s too short to spend it squabbling with those you love. She said: “I believe Denise continues to resent the success I’ve worked hard to achieve away from the band and I’m not sure how we can get over that. Thank you."ĭespite the fact that she and her sisters grieved together for Bernie, Coleen has since revealed that the rift still continues between her and Denise - although she and Anne have since made up. When she told Robin, he proved to be very understanding - and helped her to find a private doctor in Harley Street, paying for everything.Ĭoleen also took to her Twitter page on Thursday to thank fans for their kind messages, writing: "Words fail me at this time, we are heartbroken, but each and every one of your kind comments about our beautiful sister bring great comfort. “I woke one morning to a strange feeling of nausea, and in the back of my mind was the niggling reminder that I had lost my virginity to my boyfriend Robin Smith, the keyboard player in our band, four weeks earlier and we hadn’t used anything.” “Intuitively I’d known I was pregnant,” she said in her autobiography. When Coleen was 16-years-old, she lost her virginity to 23-year-old Robin Smith - and fell pregnant. I knew he'd made mum's life hell and sexually abused Anne. “At times Dad had been a monster,” she said.
“But she just sat there saying: ‘I won’t,’ while he continued to hit her in the mouth.”Ĭoleen later discovered that her father had sexually abused Anne. Describing one particularly vivid memory of Tommy attacking her older sister Anne, she said: “He was brutal, hitting her repeatedly in the face, spitting: ‘You will cry.’
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