# 1939   Samantha Fox - I ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOU
                                                                                        

                                   I Wanna Have Some Fun, Jive Records, 1989

        BILLBOARD CHART ACHIEVEMENTS:
                     Dance/Maxi-Singles Sales:   # 12                 
               Hot 100:   # 31       
     Dance/Club Play:   # 46

    INTERNATIONAL CHART ACHIEVEMENTS:
         # 16  in the UK, Jan '89
       # 19  in Austria, April '89
         # 24 in Switzerland, March '89
          # 25 in Germany, June '89

                  top ten hit at MATT RADIO         

  This is a remake of the 1964 Dusty Springfield classic, also covered by The Tourists in 1980.
Samantha Fox is a descendent of a long line of quick-witted and entrepreneurial Londoners: industrious and cheerful, true Cockneys (born "within the sound of Bow Bells" in the East End).  For generations her close-knit family prospered as costermongers (market traders), selling fruit, vegetables, textiles and haberdashery in the historic Chapel Market.  Sam's grandmother can remember her own childhood in war-torn Britain, when her mother's family had five market stalls of their own.  From these people Sam inherited energy, wit and sense of humour, plus a unique musical talent and a world-class beauty all her own.

When the press announced Britain's most photographed women of all time, they were Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana and Samantha Fox.  Not since the Beatles has a British entertainer been so well known all over the world, across a complete cross section of age, sex, race and religion.  Sam Fox has been compared to Marilyn Monroe and Madonna, not least because she possesses the same fascinating vitality and allure.  (Editor's note: are you shittin' me?  Samantha Fox up there with the Beatles and Madonna?  As if!  But, hey, this bio is from a Samantha Fox fanboy page, so we'll let it ride.)
 
Sam Fox was born to perform and destined to be famous.  Her first stage appearance was when she was three years old.  By the age of five she was already attending the Anna Scher Theatre School.  She made her first television appearance when she was ten in a BBC play called "No Way Out" and at eleven she was accepted by the Judy Dench Mountainview Theatre School.  However, music was Sam's first love and at fourteen she formed her first band.  When she was fifteen she got her first record deal,  but she was whisked into the glamorous modeling world and her music career was put on hold.

During the four-year tenure of her extremely lucrative modeling contract, Samantha Fox literally became a household name in the UK and the nation's darling.  Nonetheless, as soon as her contractual obligations expired, Sam immediately wanted to focus all her attention on her music again.  At the age of twenty Sam released her first single, "Touch Me."  Sam made her debut live appearance as a singer at Peter Stringfellow's prestigious Hippodrome in front of an audience composed entirely of DJs from all over Europe.

"Touch Me" went on to amass a formidable array of platinum, gold and silver awards.  Overall, twenty-four discs honour these sales.  The Touch Me album and three others found number one national chart positions in no less than fifteen countries and top fives in numerous others including the USA.
During this time Sam toured the world, barely stopping for breath.  Indeed, Samantha Fox made a terrific impact with her live act, selling out halls of up to 30,000 capacity across Canada and America and touring Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea.  In Montreal she broke the box office record.
In South America she had huge record sales and a sell-out tour sponsored by Pepsi of 20,000 seat minimum venues.  There were 50,000 people at the airport on her arrival in Colombia.  Sam was invited by the Minister of Tourism in Brazil to the Rio Carnival.  In Ecuador she took part in a celebrity tennis match to raise funds for hospitals.
 
In one year alone Sam played to over a million fans.  Another year was spent in New York, V'Jaying for MTV (presenting pop-promo video programmes on Music Television), acting in a sitcom, and recording with top US producers.

As someone with humanitarian interests, she chose to also visit and perform in unusual countries including Bosnia, Russia, the Ukraine and Siberia.  In India Sam performed to 70,000 people three nights in a row, breaking the record previously held by Bruce Springsteen.  "I have fans in some remote countries in the world, and there are not many artists who will visit these places," she says.  "Sometimes the hotels have no running water and the transport is scary, but the graciousness and appreciation of the fans is so overwhelming you have to take it in stride."

Perhaps it is this global approach that accounts for the international composition of Sam's fan base. With the advent of the internet, the development of her own official site and links with the many other Sam sites run by long-term loyal fans, the world has become her "cyber oyster".

Sam has also had parts in three films: "It's Been Real," "The Match" (starring Pierce Brosnan and Ian Holm), and "Rock Dancer."
 
Sam has entered an era where her intuitive sense of adventure and curiosity has always belonged from the start.  Her early desire to travel all around the world and her fascination with far-away places and different cultures was almost ahead of the times when she began.  Now, in the year 2000, the world has opened up to her way of thinking, and through the Internet, global consciousness is being raised as people come together.

In the studio Sam Fox creates an infectious musical style that has placed her in the highest echelons of rock and pop.  Sam Fox is the "people's choice," a young woman to whom everyone can relate, an international personality who possesses a natural and charismatic appeal.  Today we see her confident and mature as she steers her career into the twenty-first century with the talent and versatility that have become her international hallmark.  When during her most recent live performance, on 6th May 2000, she sang to her audience in Ghent, Belgium, her voice was better than ever.  Even lifelong fans who had traveled from Germany and Holland to see her perform commented that she has never sounded so good.

Right now Sam is working on her next album.  Monday 22nd May she is in the studio again.  Next month, June 2000, she will play to audiences in Germany and Denmark as well as actively participate in the editing of the final cut of her own video documentary, "All Around the World."  Produced by Sam herself, this is a revealing travelogue-style extended interview covering her most recent worldwide travels and performances, packed with authentic footage shot on Sam's adventurous tours, including previously unseen glimpses of life behind the scenes as well as live onstage performances and pop promo video clips.  Sam takes us through recent years and openly talks about where she is going today and what is important in her career.

Sam is currently researching and writing her autobiography as well as being actively involved in the development and imminent launch of her updated official website.

source:  jayaramanganesh.tripod.com/beauties, May 2000