Dancing To the Top! - Jackie No. 788 10 February 1979

Brightman & Beautiful Tune Into Summer 1979

 Sarah of St. Trinians - PopStar Weekly 24 March 1979

Secrets of the Stars Holidays Romances - Jackie No. 817 September 1 1979

A Bird? A Plane? Nope it's Super Sarah - ! SUPERPOP 14 APRIL 1979

Close Encounters with Sarah Brightman - Disco Fan 4 Sept 1979

 Meet the Stars - Superpop! 28 April 1979

Interplanetary Glow - FAB 208 9th December 1979

 Going It Alone - Super Sarah - FAB 2nd June 1979

How Sexy Sarah Owes it all to Mrs Clean - Titbits No. 4837 Dec 14 - 20 1979

Saucy Sarah! - Mates June 16th 1979

Never In Blue Jeans -Blue Jeans No. 129 July 7 1979

DANCING TO THE TOP!

Jackie No. 788 10 February 1979

Sarah Brightman of Hot Gossip says she only became a professional dancer through pure accident . . .

"When I was sixteen, a close friend phoned me to say she’d been asked to audition for a place with Legs and Co., but she was so nervous about It that she asked me to go along to keep her company. So we went up to town together, and by the time we reached the dance studio she told me she’d only go through the audition if I danced with her. I couldn’t back out, so we hurriedly worked out a routine together".

“When It was over! didn’t think any more about if, although I hoped my friend would succeed,” Sarah went on. “Imagine my shock and surprise when a few weeks later a letter arrived saying I’d got the job! Luckily, my friend took the news very well, and I went on to join Legs and Co. I joined Hot Gossip two years later, and I’ve been singing and dancing with them ever since.”

Webmaster's comment - although it says Legs and Co - they meant Pan's People!

  Sarah of St. Trinians

PopStar Weekly 24 March 1979

Paula meets Sarah Brightman (well she has to earn her living somehow while Bobsie’s away)

When I first discovered I was going to be banished to have words with Sarah Brightman, I was shocked and stunned that such an innocent as myself could be sent to meet. . . her. . . I rather expected her to curl her leg around the door and perhaps fling a feather boa into the room to prepare me for the shock of some quivering sexpot waiting for my first question.

In reality Sarah bounced in rather like a sexier Joyce Grenfell, reminding me of Return To Saint Trinians and other classics. She slapped her thigh and informed me her mother had just had her sixth baby (maybe her mother should have been in Hot Gossip instead). Before I destroy the idea that she’s not wildly sexy, she is, it’s just that it was a shock that she didn’t answer in monosyllables and shake her pelvis after every reply. Maybe I was the wrong sex for any of that.

Paddington (exotic, eh) born Sarah, who left Pan’s People to give. British manhood twitching thighs with Hot Gossip, has now left all that far behind her after the hit single Starship Trooper, and she’s filled with anticipation for the next few months of work. She has an album currently being recorded ‘with a song on it I wrote about four years ago she says, sounding rather amazed that it’s not only good enough, but working out perfectly on the album. Apart from songs Sarah wrote for the album, there’s the inevitable disco but she’s trying to ‘keep the album as diversified as possible. I’m even doing ballads and stuff like that, definitely not just disco’. Desert Song here she comes!

Apart from this, Sarah has a synthesiser and is spending plenty of her spare time twiddling knobs, trying to discover all its possibilities for use on the album. So she will be playing as well as singing.

Although it would be easy to think with all this going on there’s no time for any of Miss Brightman’s infamous sexual gymnastics, Sarah says she wants to keep dancing, especially in the videos to make the music more intriguing and elaborate. Music and dancing are very important to the end product in her mind, and one thing that you notice —about Sarah Brightman is the faith she exudes in her ‘product.’

The new single Adventures Of A Love Crusader is ‘a song I really like performing, as it gives me a chance to play lots of parts and change personas during the song from sexy to sort of cartoon like characters.’ It all sounds positively Bowiesque but La Brightman does have a fairly extensive classical training. In fact at nine, she was singing opera (I was learning my tables) but she does let this drop in a modest doesn’t everyone kind of way that’s very  endearing...

At the moment she has no plans to tour, but isn’t particularly in awe of the experience either. It’s merely a matter of getting the new single off  the ground and finishing the album, which is enough work for anyone. . . plus preparing the usual hernia-producing publicity shots and exciting young boy journalists to the point of collapse and playing her synthesizer. . . still it’s all in a days work apparently, according to the enthusiastic Miss Brightman.

A BIRD? A PLANE? NOPE, IT’S... SUPER SARAH

SUPERPOP 14 APRIL 1979

Mike Powell lost his heart to Sarah Brightman when they got together recently. The gossip was hot and so were his hands. Poor mite.

MONDAY NIGHT USED to be Coronation Street night.

Families in their thousands sat down, eager to discover whether Albert Tatlock was going to order a meat pie with his pint of stout this week. And had Ena Sharples really sat on the cat or had she a bad case of wind?

Then the revolution came.

Kenny Everett emerged from the bowels of London’s Capital Radio in order to present a new experience in television viewing, ‘Kenny Everett’s Video Show’.

With it he brought a refreshing and stimulating dance troupe who were to have Mary Whitehouse wringing her wrists in rage.

Angry of Mayfair had nothing on her.

One of the most attractive of the new dance experience was the very beautiful Sarah Brightman. Raised In downtown Paddington, North of the River Thames, now she raises males all over the country. Out of their seats, that is.

We’ll eventually move away from the space characters but In the meantime It’s good fun. I enjoy being Superwoman.’

I met Sarah a while after she had announced her split from Hot Gossip, in order to pursue a solo career in singing.

"I’ve had such a hectic week so far,” she whispered, staring through tinted sunglasses. We were walking along Charing Cross Road, trying to find an open cafe — so far three had been closed.

Success! Eventually we discovered a small, seedy joint which looked like the SUPERPOP canteen after a severe case of the sausage toads. Nasty. Even worse the owner was a little like Basil Fawlty on a bad day.

After ordering two coffees, we were marched upstairs and told to “get lost”, after having cups shoved over the counter. Nice start.

Sarah had an even nicer one to her career. She joined up with Pan’s People, after going along to an audition with a friend.

“I stayed with the People for one and a half years,” she admitted after slurping on her coffee. “I replaced Cherry Gilespie and the ironic thing was that I only went along to the audition in order to provide some morel support for my friend. I had no idea that I would walk out a Pan’s Person. "

“The job led to even greater things and I soon found myself modelling clothes for Vogue and Biba — many a girl’s dream.”

Eventually we got round to talking of Ms Brightman’s split from Hot Gossip.

“It was basically because I found myself working for 25 hours a day,” she smiled.  “I was in cabaret, then recording shows and videos and realised I didn’t have any spare-time at all. “In the mornings I was late for rehearsals and recording and it soon began to get on top of me."

Sarah loves being 18 years old.

“At this age, we can get away with murder as only you well know,” she smirked, “yet at the same time we’re looked upon as sophisticated adults.”

Sarah’s friends play a large part In her life.

"I love to go down to the Disco with my mates and Just have a good evening out,” she admitted.

“My brothers and sisters all take the mickey out of me as far as my career is concerned. I have five of ‘em, Amelia, Nicola, Claudia, Jay and Joel and they’re all great kids, I’m the eldest and I’m the only one with a normal name!"

“I think my Mum liked the name Sarah and then decided to name the rest of her children after famous film and TV personalities and people out of books. "

“We all live in Hertfordshire and the people there are amazing. I have little toddlers following me in the Street and singing ‘I Lost My Heart To A Draught Excluder — It’s all great stuff!"

In what there is of her spare-time Sarah listens to any Pop station on the radio and reads all the music papers.  “My manager Just walks into my room and plonks a whole bundle of them on my bed.” Sarah’s manager, Andrew Graham Stewart Is also her boyfriend.

“It was a real set-up the way we came together,” she giggled. “I actually live five doors away from him and there was a party going on down the street He knew me, and my friend knew him and knew I that he liked me and invited us both to the party. If you can follow me"

Andrew also manages Howard Devoto’s band, Magazine.

We’ve been going together since August last year,” Sarah told me, “so not an awful long time. All the same I’ve grown to love Magazine and I simply adore their current support act, Simpleminds.

Apart from music, another of Sarah’s hobbies is astrology. “I’m a Leo,” she confessed, “I was born on August 14 and evidently I’ve got the traits of a lion. I would guess that you’re a Sagittarian.  After blushing, I told Ms Brightman that she had  been correct in her assumption. “I don’t take it seriously,” she giggled .

All the same, Sarah knew that she’d make it big as a television star.

“I’m not trying to be conceited or big-headed but I always knew I’d become famous In the end, At school I told my friends that I’d sing and dance on ‘IV. They must have reckoned I was a right nut case then, but now they have faith In me and take my TV appearances with a pinch of salt."

“I find that I can really relax with my old school friends. They know me Inside Out and so they don’t expect anything more of me than just myself. I never talk about work to my friends or family unless they really want to know. I don’t want to be a bore.”

Sarah has just invested in a brand new synthesiser, which she hopes she'll be able to play on her forthcoming album. Meanwhile the money keeps on flowing and she’s got into flying planes, following In the footsteps of Mike Oldfleld.

“At the present time I am totally satisfied In what I am doing, but there is always another rung of the ladder to climb and I eventually want to establish myself as a top singer and experiment in heavier production.

I'm not trying to be conceited or big headed but I always. knew I’d become famous In the end. At school I told my friends I’d sing and dance on TV.

“It was a real pity that the break-up of Hot Gossip came into being, but It was the most Inevitable thing in the world."

“Their rise to fame, unfortunately, was instant and too much for them. They still want to go on dancing and sing once in a while, but not all at the same time as they had been doing.”

Sarah’s current record, which has been pressed in red-hot vinyl is Adventures Of The Love Crusader’ and has caused quite a stir so far in the Discos. The butch American voice narrating the story is Sarah’s producer Steve Rolands and follows the adventures of Sarah and her Starship Troopers — who are a new dance troupe hand’ picked by Sarah herself.

“We’ll eventually move away from the space characters,” Sarah smirked, “but for the meantime it’s good fun and I enjoy being Superwoman".

By now our coffee huh — more like strained gnatswater) was finished and Mr Fawlty was on his rounds again. “No coffee, no seats,” he mumbled. A gentle hints for us to leave.

Sarah and I felt it was time to depart, but not before she expressed her wish to meet some SUPERPOP readers. “I’d love to meet some,” she smiled.

I bet they’d love to meet you I thought. A girl who’s mature, fun to be with and red hot raver, too. In tact I thought I needed a cold shower after meeting her until I realised that Basil’s coffee had done the job.

Next week! You could win a date with Sarah Brightman. Watch out for more details.

Meet the Stars  

Superpop! 28 April 1979

Sarah Brightman was a guest on Tiswas last week and set many a male heart beating faster with her thigh length black leather boots, fish net tights and the shortest of shortest purple skirts which tied just underneath her behind.

The outfit was decorated with various badges and Sarah also wore lots has of diamonte jewellery which she has a passion for. She has a vast collection of badges, and diamonte bits and pieces and spends ages every day deciding which bits to

Sarah had rather a scare on a recent trip to Spain. Her plane bad taken off when suddenly the engines cut out and the plane almost crash landed.  Luckily the engines started up again just in time.

Sarah, who spends a tot of her spare lime flying, and who hopes to get her pilots licence one day, was absolutely terrified.

Going It Alone - Super Sarah

FAB 2nd June 1979 - Debbie Hawes

At 19 Sarah Brightman has seen success as both a dancer and a singer. FAB finds out what makes her tick!

Before we left for lunch, Sarah Brightman had to choose some publicity shots of herself dressed in the super sexy sequinned gear that we’ve become so used to seeing her wear — first in Hot Gossip and now as a singer.

But the Sarah sitting down scrutinising the photos looked totally different from the Sarah on film. She was neatly dressed in a well-tailored cream trouser suit and silk shirt, with a matching pillbox hat perched firmly on her dark, wavy hair. Her pretty face bore hardly a trace of make-up and she smiled brightly as she said hello.

She talked about why she took the big step of leaving the very successful dance group, Hot Gossip.

“It all got too much. As well as promoting my record (I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper) I was having to do cabarets and rush around all over the place with the group, and rehearse the Kenny Everett Video Show as well. On top of that I was trying to publicise the record and do photos and everything for myself. Obviously I chose the singing side of my career because I prefer it.”

It’s definitely true to say that in the short time Sarah has been out in the wide world earning her living, she’s gone from one success to another. But when did it all begin?

“I started at the age of three at proper dancing school and had up to about six lessons a  week. I went on to go to three stage schools, a which is where I did my training. After I started dancing I decided that was what I wanted to do.’ Then at the age of nine l realised I could sing. I always knew inside me: that I could sing, but no  one took much notice at home. They thought I had a nice voice and that. was that. But at stage:  school there was a singing master who saw my potential and brought it out through singing lessons.”

The lovely Sarah has, in fact, quite a few strings to her bow. She has studied acting as well, and appeared in a West End play when she was only 11. She also plays guitar and Piano  and writes songs, some of which she hopes to record.

Sarah doesn’t seem to have wasted a minute of her 19 years. Surprisingly she still found time to pass exams!

“We studied things like arithmetic, biology and English at stage school. I got five 0 levels, which is enough to do something -  nothing like being a doctor, but I could get a job."

“I worked quite hard for them because I only had a little time to study in the morning. The rest of the time I was acting or dancing or singing.”

She left stage school at 16 and didn’t have to wait too long for job offers. Within two months of leaving she had three to consider, in The Cilia Black Show,  dancing with a show: abroad, or joining Top of the Pops’ Pan’s People.  She chose to join the forerunners of Legs and Co., where she stayed for 18 months, and then joined Hot Gossip.  “The training was much more severe in Hot Gossip. Everything had to be so exact because the choreographer* was such a perfectionist. It’s awful, I think if you do something and it doesn’t look quite right.” (*Arlene Phillips)

And what about that lovable nutter, Kenny Everett? “Oh, he was mad ... mad as a hatter,” Sarah laughed. “He’s a sweet guy, but he really is—well, zany! He doesn’t really use a script. He just comes out and they film it all the,. I time while he’s walking around and saying silly things. Then they just take bits out of it. It’s all natural, you know, when he bursts into laughter and can’t go on.”

Now Sarah has left that all behind. She has a gold record for I Lost My Heart, which also featured Hot Gossip. Her latest single, The Adventures of a Love Crusader, sees her with her backing group, the Starship Troopers. She plans another single as well as an album.

Leading such an active life must make it comparatively easy for Sarah to keep her incredibly slim figure. She smiled and shook her head.

“I never used to have. to watch my weight, but suddenly I have to be careful,” she said as she polished off her salad. “It’s probably because I have such an enormous appetite. I put on weight easily now that I’ve stopped growing.”

Sarah comes from a large family. She has five brothers and sisters (the youngest is a bouncing baby girl). But none of the others want to follow in her footsteps.

“There are obviously a lot of hassles in this business, and my family have seen them all. One, in fact, did want to go into show business, but after seeing how many difficulties there are, she changed her mind. You get weeks that aren’t very good; you come back and you’re de: pressed. But then there : are weeks when every- I thing goes well — and they’re magic!

“The main thing is to be confident. You have to go along for auditions : and be confident you’re going to do well. You mustn’t miss auditions because you’re too scared. When I started out I was really determined.”

And that determination is certainly paying dividends for her now. The future looks gloriously rosy ... and so does Sarah.

“I feel happier now. I don’t feel as pressured because I’m doing something I really want to do. When I was dancing I wasn’t individual. In Hot Gossip I couldn’t be because it was a group. Now I do my own thing and I like it that way.”

Sarah Brightman is definitely the hottest property to come out of the dance group 'Hot Gossip'. Sarah's gone solo, but she learnt a lot of beauty tips from the HG crowd and she told us some of them.

1. "The biggest asset any girl can have is her figure.  lf you stay slim you're half-way to looking glamorous no matter what the rest of you is like. With the kind of costumes I wear, I can't gain a few ounces let alone pounds!"

2. "No matter how tired you are, you've got to cleanse your skin at the end of the day. When I was with Hot Gossip we always stuck to our beauty routines. Those bright TV lights show every flaw!"

3. "Always keep your hair clean. If it needs washing every day that's bad luck, but you should do it."

4. "Without a doubt the best way to keep a body beautiful is to dance. I've danced all my life, it's fantastic exercise and it's fun. Don't wait for someone to ask you to dance, just do it!"

BRIGHTMAN AND BEAUTIFUL

Tune Into Summer 1979

Article by Jan Etherington;  hair by Gill at Brutons, East Molesey; make-up by Louise Blanchard.

Dancing for a living can’t go on for ever. I’d rather be writing and singing now. I think that’s where my future lies. I never wanted to be just a dancer.

HER FATHER used to sing children’s songs on the BBC Television show Muffin the Mule. Her mother, a trained dancer, appeared in the kind of amateur family shows the vicar was pleased to attend. With that sort of background, it came as some surprise to them when Mary Whitehouse switched off her TV set in disgust at their daughter’s dynamite appearances on a successful ITV pop music show.

As the youngest member of Hot Gossip, the most controversial dance troupe for years, Sarah Brightman vamped and strutted her way through routines which caused the men of this country to elbow their way home to watch the “naughty bits” on The Kenny Everett Video Show.

But in Sarah’s case appearances couldn’t be more deceptive. She soon discovered she was the odd girl out.

“The others used to call me Lady Sarah,” she said. “They were kind and looked after me, but they were very geary and way out. As soon as I left Hot Gossip I wanted to get away from that image. It was never really me.”

The smart two-piece and pill-box hat Sarah wore to rehearsals was light years away from the split satin skirt and four-inch heels she slipped into for the show. But Sarah doesn’t want to give the impression she was the Mary Poppins of the group. It was a good time, she says, smiling.

“The clothes were more a gimmick than anything and I think the remarks made by Mary Whitehouse helped to get the group noticed. I did enjoy it and I learned a lot from Arlene Phillips who trained us. I’ve never seen dancers as good as Hot Gossip and being part of them has helped me.”

Sarah began dancing lessons when she was three, and later her mother encouraged her to attend a stage school in London. Two years ago, Sarah went for an audition as a dancer with Pan’s People. She got the job and was snapped up by Vogue magazine for modelling assignments and chosen by Biba to advertise their cosmetics.

As if that wasn’t enough to turn a young girl’s head, the record company Ariola — who had auditioned hundreds of girls—insisted Sarah was the one to record I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper, and Arlene Phillips asked her to join Hot Gossip, who provided the backing vocals on the song. I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper sold 500,000 copies, reached No. Six in the charts and won Sarah a gold disc.

At this point, Sarah might have decided to move to an elegant London flat, install dim lighting and an Afghan hound and revel in her image of rising star and girl-about-town.

But Sarah can’t imagine anything more pointless than leaving the family home in Hertfordshire, and a visit there shows why.

It’s a beautiful, rambling house built in the 12th century for Edward III’s doctor, John O’Gaddesden, who attended his King at nearby Berkhamsted Castle.

Sarah’s father bought the house a year ago and it’s lofty beamed rooms are spacious enough for the extensive Brightman family.

Sarah, 18, has two teenage sisters, Nicola (15) and Claudia (14), two brothers, Jay (10) and Joel (5), and the noisy but welcoming family atmosphere is completed by five-year-old Amelia.

Sarah has lived in the area all her life and met her boyfriend, 27-year-old Andrew Graham-Stewart, at a local party. He lives in an equally imposing residence nearby, which he bought from the proceeds of his successful discovery and management of the band Tangerine Dream. He now looks after a New Wave band called Magazine and also takes care of Sarah’s business interests.

Keen to shake off the ritzy image of Hot Gossip, Sarah insists she loves romantic feminine clothes, and her favorite era is the Forties. “I’ve got stacks of hats, and I love this outfit,” she said, slipping into the Jeff Banks two-piece.

Mrs. Brightman particularly liked the red dress Sarah wore as she perched on an Edwardian chair, and young Joel couldn’t stop giggling when he came home from school and saw his big sister wearing a Superman jacket and an eye-shade, and sitting on the rocking horse in the playroom.

Sarah spends a great deal of time in the music room, writing songs and playing the piano, guitar and synthesiser. Her new single, The Adventures of a Love Crusader, will be closely followed by another in July and an album in November.

“From now on I think my songs will be more like ballads, more Fleetwood Mac,” said Sarah “I prefer that kind of music.”

She admires Donna Summer  “I love the strength in her singing” — and we’ve almost certainly seen the last of Sarah Brightman, dancer.

“I enjoyed it, but dancing for a living can’t go on for ever. I’d rather be writing and singing now. I think that’s where my future lies. I never wanted to be just a dancer.”

For those who find that disheartening news — watch closely. The metamorphosis of Sarah Brightman could be an interesting process.

Never In Blue Jeans

From:-Blue Jeans No. 129 July 7 1979

How fashion fads change (Web Master!)

Secrets of the Stars Holidays Romances

From Jackie No. 817 September 1 1979

"When I was sixteen I went with a friend to Italy and met an Italian guy who was much older — he was about twenty-seven and his name was Luciano. He was very romantic, gorgeous looking, beautifully dressed, and he had a sports car. At sixteen things like that mattered to me. I thought I was going to die when I had to come back home. I wanted to stay there but of course couldn't and it took more than a year to get over him. It really wasn't possible to stay in touch — as he didn't speak English and I didn't speak Italian. I was really upset when we separated. On my last evening we went to a night club but I had to get back to, the hotel for the airport bus. He drove me back, said goodbye quickly, and suddenly it was all over."

Close Encounters with Sarah Brightman

Once a Hot Gossip dancer, stunning Sarah launched herself into stellar space with Starship Trooper . . . and sent her fans into orbit!

It takes some guts becoming a disco star when you know that everyone is entitled to march through your home when they fancy. For Sarah Brightman, ex Hot Gossip dancer, who had a hit with ‘I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper’ and ‘Adventures Of a Love Crusader’, that’s exactly the position she’s found herself in.

“Luckily things aren’t as bad as they could be — yet,” she said, a little out of breath after a return trip from Spain where she’d been doing television shows. “You see, I live with my parents in this large and very beautiful cottage in a Hertfordshire Village, but it’s been declared a National Heritage and that means we have to allow members of the public to tour the place.

“It’s not too difficult at the moment as the majority of people haven’t yet tumbled where I live and so a handful of Americans and Swedes are the bulk of our tourist business. And it’s also fortunate that I’m away from home a bit at this time because of the television and recording work.”

Even so, there’s a slender chance that you’d find Sarah taking a bath or tucked up in bed with one of her favourite books. “There are enough rooms in the cottage for me to lose myself in the event of a tourist invasion,” she laughs.

“As a matter of fact, I do like sleeping till late, so I’d probably think the whole thing was a bad dream.”

It’s certainly not a bad dream she’s living at this point in her  career; one that’s taken her through two highly successful dance troupes. . . Pan’s People and the wonderful Hot Gossip before she escaped the naughty bits to build a recording career for herself with her own Starship Troopers.

“I was a little bit lucky in I that I left Hot Gossip just before the hassles which broke the group up. I knew that there was some bickering going on, but I tried to keep well away from it and in the background.

“But I’ll always treasure those moments with Arlene Phillips as the choreographer. She’s a tremendously active creature with enormous talent. In fact I’ve heard that she’s possibly going to the States and I can well understand that. Arlene’s very much a Hollywood and States type person. She’ll love being over there and probably will do very well.”

Sarah herself hasn’t exactly been bound to our own shores since she hit the charts, touring quite a few European countries for television programmes. “The ones in Spain tend not to be as good as those in Britain. Most of the acts are from Spain with a few imported British and American ones. But in Germany, if anything, I’d say that there pop and disco programmes are far superior to anything on our own screens. They just seem to have a better talent for putting disco across!”

Sarah claims that it was a totally independent deal that turned her into a singer and not something dependant on her success as a dancer with Hot Gossip. “Hansa / Ariola wanted me to do ‘Starship Trooper’ after they’d heard some tapes of me.. and they discovered I was with Hot Gossip. So it was just one of those neat but complicated coincidences. I can’t deny that there must have been the added publicity from it, but that was just luck!”

Her talent is improved by hard work and training, helped by David Bowie’s and Kate Bush’s mime teacher, Lindsay Kemp. Before that she already had a good pedigree. Born in Paddington, London, she was sent to singing classes and by the age of nine she was already singing opera and learning to play piano and guitar. Not all at the same time, we hasten to add.

“From there I went to Elmhurst stage school and Arts Educational,” she says, “and that led to me being offered a part in a West End play ‘Albert And I’ about Queen Victoria. I liked the schoolwork, though, because it was so varied between the academic and the arts side. At the same time as I was doing my O and A levels I was also learning stuff like flamenco and Greek dancing.”

Sarah also began writing songs from an early age and didn’t discard them but kept a folio of them. The• really surprising thing for her is the news what some of those numbers might just make future tracks on her albums.

How she became a dancer is another fairytale story! “I was asked by a friend to go along to an audition for Pan’s People.   Not for me, you understand... but for her, because she was a bit  nervous of arriving there alone. Well, they found out I was a dancer too and roped me in for an audition with the embarrassing result that I was offered the job.”

Sarah really didn’t realise then just how much help this wonderful television exposure would help her. It led to modelling assignments for top fashion magazines like ‘Vogue’.. . and for wedding magazines. Sarah has always had a job fighting off  prospective husbands and is now regularly dating her manager.

The producer of the Kenny Everett Show saw her with Pan’s People and offered her a chance to join Hot Gossip. From that point in time she’s never looked back. Now she intends to cut a disco album and another album featuring diversified material like ballads.

But as disco has already brought her one gold record there’s more disco to be recorded by her. She sees the Starship Trooper thing as fun and enjoys the comic and  cartoon approach to presenting the numbers. “I’m in the business of entertaining and that’s what I intend to do,” she claims.

Even so Sarah will be flying high in more ways than one if she gets her way. “I love aeroplanes. I’m crazy about them and grab every chance I get to go up in one. Just as soon as I can find the time I intend to take flying lessons with the hopes that I’ll ultimately be able to get a private pilot’s license.”

If there’s one thing Sarah is insistent on, it’s looking good. “I don’t like to dress sloppily,” she insists. “I like to look as elegant as possible.’ And you know something? I don’t even own a pair of jeans. That’ll show you how serious I am.”

Sarah s