The Fizz's Mike Nolan reveals the REAL reason he's leaving the band after 43 ... trends now
The Fizz singer Mike Nolan has revealed the real reason he is leaving the band after 43 years.
Joining host Michael Ball on his BBC Radio 2 show on Sunday, the Eurovision star, 69, first announced he was leaving saying: 'I'm going to be leaving, it's for personal reasons. I have decided to go, to leave.
'I've been thinking about it for a long long, long time and I just thought: 'this is the time to do it'. We've been together for 43 years.'
The Fizz are a British pop music group formed in 2004 as a spin-off from the original group, Bucks Fizz. The core of the group consists of Cheryl Baker, 70, Mike and Jay Aston, 63.
And The Fizz appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain where Mike elaborated on the reason why he is leaving.
The Fizz singer Mike Nolan has revealed the real reason he is leaving the legendary band after 43 years
The Fizz are a British pop music group formed in 2004 as a spin-off from the original group, Bucks Fizz. The core of the group consists of Cheryl Baker, 70, (left) Mike (right) and Jay Aston, 63 (centre)
The Bucks Fizz reached stardom in the 1980s after winning the historical Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up in 1981 (pictured in 1982)
And The Fizz appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain where Mike elaborated on the reason why he is leaving
Mike said: 'It's actually personal reasons why I'm leaving but also as well I was getting fed up with the amount of travelling you've got to do.
'Everyone has to travel but because I can't drive anymore, I've got to get into a cab, onto a train, onto another train, meet up with the band, do the gig, stay overnight, two trains back, another cab and forty years of it...'
The rest of the band then revealed that Mike has been talking about leaving for the last three years as they joked: 'Just go, for goodness' sake!'
They did then sweetly add however: 'Of course, it's not going to be the same.'
The band also revealed they have plans to replace him and they will be holding a farewell concert before Mike's exit.
Bucks Fizz reached stardom in the 1980s after winning the historical Eurovision Song Contest with the song Making Your Mind Up in 1981.
Their banger catapulted to No1 in the UK charts and sold four million copies worldwide.
The group was originally formed solely for the contest and was comprised of vocalists Mike, Bobby G, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston.
Mike said: 'It's actually personal reasons why I'm leaving but also as well I was getting fed up with the amount of travelling you've got to do'
He added: 'Everyone has to travel but because I can't drive anymore, I've got to get into a cab, onto a train, onto another train, meet up with the band, do the gig, stay overnight, two trains back, another cab and forty years of it...'
The rest of the band then revealed that Mike has been talking about leaving for the last three years as they joked: 'Just go, for goodness' sake!'
The band also revealed they have plans to replace him and they will be holding a farewell concert before Mike's exit (L-R in 1985 Bucks Fizz Mike, Cheryl, Shelley Preston, Bobby G)
In 2004, a spin-off group of the band as The Fizz was formed after Bobby G, 70, won a court case preventing his former bandmates to perform under the name The Original Bucks Fizz.
The remaining three bandmates were said to be 'extremely disappointed' by the ruling, which happened in August 2011 after a long legal battle.
The judge ruled in favour of Bobby on grounds that since his wife (Heidi Manton, also a member of his group) owned the Bucks Fizz name, the use of the name The Original Bucks Fizz was therefore an impediment on their trademark.
Fans of the iconic British band flooded X - formerly Twitter - with comments, as many admitted to be 'sad' and 'gutted' the singer has opted to leave the band after 43 years.
'Sad to hear Mike Nolan has decided to leave The Fizz at the end of the year. Two new boys coming;' 'Will miss @mikenolanfizz so much. I've never
