#65: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now by Samantha Fox
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKOI
Peak Month: December 1987
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #2
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #80
YouTube: “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now”
Lyrics: “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now”
Samantha Fox was born in London, UK, in 1966. She formed her first pop band when she was 14 and signed her first record deal with Lamborghini Records at age 15. Fox began her glamour modelling career at age 16 in 1982. After she placed second in a Sunday People amateur modeling contest, The Sun recruited her to pose topless for Page 3, where she made her first appearance in February 1983. In the UK you had to be 16 years of age in order to legally be in a photo for public consumption. Named The Sun‘s “Page 3 Girl of the Year” for 1984, 1985 and 1986, she became one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s and a notable sex symbol of the era. in 1983, her recording debut was a non-album non-charting single titled “Rockin’ with My Radio”, credited as S.F.X.