Singer Linda Nolan, who has died aged 65 after a long battle with cancer, appeared on the Late Late Show back in 2014 and spoke about the glory days of The Nolans.
"It was so exciting," she said. "We'd been singing round the clubs with our mum and dad and all of a sudden we were whisked away to London and we were on national tv for six weeks with Cliff Richard. It was amazing."
Speaking about the band’s squeaky clean image, Linda said, "Six catholic Irish sisters, you have an image before you do anything and then they put us in those awful green dresses . . . I don’t think there is anything wrong with being nice but it is hard to live up that sweet, sugary, syrupy image.
"Later on, we had a ball! We went mad . . . not really, really mad. We stayed up late and we didn’t wear what we were told. We had more of a say in what we did and then of course when we had the hit records and were touring with Frank Sinatra in 1975, it was amazing."
She also spoke about her nickname as "Naughty Nolan," which she earned after posing for a saucy photoshoot in the early eighties.
"After I left the band in December 1983, Anne had left and rejoined, Denise had left, Collen had left so when I was leaving, Brian, our manager and agent, said we need to do something so we did the sexy photographs and I got named the Naughty Nolan just because it was one of the Nolans showing a bit of flesh and it’s stuck ever since."
The band were hugely successful and sold millions of records around the world but Linda said they didn’t really see the money they earned.
"You know how it is - you’re taken to London and asked to sign a recording contract . .. for the first four or five years of me signing contracts with agents, I never read anything because I wanted to have a hit record so it was bad decisions on our part.
"I don’t think anyone stole our money, we just had bad deals. We sold 20 million records overall; we didn’t get all the money we should have got but you can’t dwell on that. We did have a great time; we were all living in amazing houses but it all boils down to being happy and healthy."
