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Linda Nolan obituary

Singer and television presenter who performed as one of the Nolan Sisters, later called the Nolans

With Hudson as her personal manager, Linda’s solo career began with the publication of risque photographs in tabloid newspapers, who hailed her as “the naughty Nolan”. Photograph: PABetween 1986 and 1994 she made more than 1,000 appearances in the title role of the Blackpool summer variety show Maggie May and later featured in Prisoner Cell Block H – the Musical (with Paul O’Grady), Pump Boys and Dinettes, Rumpy Pumpy! Their first single, Spirit, Body and Soul, composed by Bruce Welch and Hank Marvin of the Shadows, scraped into the Top 40, but the next, I’m in the Mood for Dancing, also released in 1979, but under the group’s new name, the Nolans, launched their career.

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