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Did they pick up jobs from elsewhere?

Lulu: Floyd went on to work in Hot Gossip which just goes to prove he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not sure what happened to the others. I think they went back up North and did their own thing.

Moving on to Flick and Ruth, what were they like to work with?
Lulu: They were great. Flick is a very sassy American from New York and I'm a country girl from Suffolk, so there were times when my jaw dropped. She was hard but very fair and a good person. She made us work hard and she was nice to work for. We had the odd falling out but that happens. But looking back on it we had a ball, a great time.

Was it a similar set up to Pan's People in the way that the line-up was announced and you quickly organised your routines?
Lulu: We used to record on a Wednesday and that evening they would give us what they thought they wanted for the next week. So we'd start Thursday/Friday. But the new charts came out on a Monday, so if the record we were dancing to went down, they would give us something else, so we would have two days as opposed to four or five. We would have costumes that didn't relate to the songs at all because they were for the previous song. There was a bit of a panic sometimes. But it's like anything, if you get into the routine of learning things you can do it, like taking exams.

Are there any that stick in your mind as really embarrassing?"
Lulu: Yes. There was one where we had to dress as babies, 'Born To Be Alive' and the one where we were dressed as flowers. I was the back end of a camel, which was fun, but not one of my most glamorous moments. We weren't trying to be overtly glamorous all the time and if it was a fun song you just went with it.

A lot of the routines were quite surreal.

Lulu: Yes, but if you think about it, it's quite difficult to come up with something different every week. 90% of the times, Flick did a really good job. Sometimes she went a bit off the rails and we just put it down to art.

You had this pin up status much like Pans People. How did that make you feel?
Lulu: To be honest, we didn't really think about it all that much. It was very flattering. People would come up to you in the street. It wasn't overbearing and certainly not a problem. You could go out of your front door without someone recognising you.