Bucks Fizz star Cheryl Baker says her latest project has been a tearful treat.
Cheryl is starring in the stage show of old TV favourite Happy Days and it’s such an emotion-packed affair, it’s had tears flowing.
“It’s written by Garry Marshall who did the original series,” Cheryl told The Sunday Post.
“He’s actually taken some of the storylines so it really is just as it was on television. He came on the opening night with his wife.
“We saw them afterwards and she said that it was so wonderful to see it re-enacted and take them back 40 years that they just cried. It was lovely.”
Cheryl says the 1970s’ series is something she remembers well.
“I was glued to it like everyone else and because you didn’t have video recorders and catch-up TV, you had to be sitting in front of the telly.
“We all did because you couldn’t miss Happy Days. It was escapism, a look at a way of life we didn’t have over here.”
Cheryl will be taking another step back in time this summer when she teams up with bandmates Jay Aston and Mike Nolan at Rewind Scotland, the ’80s festival at Scone Palace.
And it will bring back memories of the heady success Bucks Fizz had after their 1981 Eurovision triumph.
“We had some amazing times,” adds Cheryl.
“We met most of the Royal Family and did surreal things like performing If
You Can’t Stand The Heat lying on a silver sheet on a beach in Brazil.
“We didn’t get paid much, but we loved what we were doing.”
Happy Days is at Sunderland Empire from April 14 with May dates in Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
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