331/3 minutes with...Samantha Fox

When the single Touch Me (I Want Your Body) came out in 1986, Sam Fox, still a teenager, was an unproven singer, albeit one of the nation's best-known glamour models.

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Within months she had topped the charts in 17 countries. She became a worldwide star, and remains the only 80s British female artist to have had three Top 10 hits on each side of the Atlantic.

Fox still plays festivals around the world with her band and her first three albums - Touch Me, Samantha Fox and I Wanna Have Fun - have now been celebrated with extravagant, multi-hued vinyl editions.

Your albums are out on vinyl for the first time since the 80s. Excited?

Absolutely! I was closely involved in everything - the colours, the design making sure I heard the mixes because they were remastered. I remember when they were vinyl, then cassettes, then CD.

Everybody misses vinyl, both my generation and young people, too. They're so precious to me. To be involved with them again after all these years, the memories come flooding back. We released a CD box set a few years back: remixes, 12", songs that never made the albums. Here we just wanted to remake the albums themselves and have that vinyl sound, lovely and warm.

So many people think of you as a model who sings, yet it was really the other way round...

That's right. I was in a school band, and we used to play the school discos. Then, when I was 17, I had a band called SFX, released a couple of singles on Lamborghini Records.