179:. The group enjoyed a number of hit singles in the mid-1970s and during this time Van Day and Bazar became romantically involved. By 1977, the group was in decline and the pair complained about the choice of material and musical direction. Van Day and Bazar were asked to leave the group in July of that year, with them publicly stating they had decided to leave to concentrate on songwriting. Van Day originally planned to go solo, but ultimately they agreed to form a duo. They were picked up, by French label
345:. Harding described the recording sessions as strained, with the band feeling intense pressure to make a hit. "They were quite fragile sessions," recalled Harding. "I think they were fairly desperate , especially Thereza." The single was to be their last release as it flopped, and work on a possible album had been long delayed. In late 1988, Dollar disbanded again.
247:, whom she had met during her days in Guys n' Dolls, and asked if he would work with them. He agreed, and produced their 1981 and 1982 material. Horn's production work gave Dollar a more distinctive sound, and their four Horn-produced singles represented the high point in the band's career. It gave them another two Top 10 singles ("
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Van Day again attempted to launch a solo career, but to no avail. Bazar decided to finish with the music industry and moved to
Australia where she concentrated on raising her family. During the 1990s, Van Day teamed up with a succession of female singers for a touring version of Dollar. In the latter
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for the first time on CD. In 2019 Cherry Pop re-released their catalog in a 6-CD/1-DVD box set. The box contains expanded versions of all three of their original studio albums with rare and new-to-CD bonus tracks including demos, single A- and B-sides, backing tracks, outtakes, and 12-inch mixes. A
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Neither member of the duo enjoyed the same kind of success as solo artists as they had had as Dollar, and by 1986, they had reformed and released the singles "We Walked in Love" and "Haven't We Said
Goodbye Before". Neither of these met with much success and soon the group were looking for another
337:". In early 1988, the song became one of their biggest hits and peaked at No. 7. The group then hit a stumbling block in deciding on a follow-up and past ill-feeling between the pair was rising again. Six months later, they finally released another single, "It's Nature's Way", produced bv
240:. Attempting a move towards a rockier sound, the album, along with its singles, failed to sell well. In a bid to generate sales, Van Day and Bazar announced their engagement, but this was later revealed to be a publicity stunt. In reality they had split up as a couple months earlier.
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in 2003. This show involved a number of formerly successful chart acts touring together in
America with the public voting off a different act each week. They quickly became the centre of attention when they were involved in an argument with pop star
385:, which was televised and reported in the newspapers. Dollar were the first act to be voted off and they returned to the UK. Dollar made another live appearance in 2004, in a show celebrating the career of Trevor Horn. It took place at
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brought a case in the High Court against Van Day. In 2001, a judge refused to grant a court injunction against Van Day as he had been operating in Bucks Fizz for five years at the time, while also running a burger van in
Brighton.
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195:. The follow-up, "Who Were You With in the Moonlight?", was released in early 1979 and also reached number 14. After two hit singles featuring Van Day on lead vocals, their third, the
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and was one of their biggest, climbing to number 4 in the UK chart. Encouraged by this steady run of success, the group released their debut album,
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