"Before her breakthrough as a pop star in 1986, London-born Samantha Fox gained notoriety throughout England as a teenaged topless model for The Sun's "Page 3" feature. Although she cut her first single concurrently, it wasn't until she shifted her focus solely to music that she achieved chart success. Over a five-year period, she released four albums and 15 singles on Jive Records which resulted in multiple number-one, top-five, and top-10 entries across Europe and the U.S. ... The contents of Play It Again, Sam are tied together nicely with a 30-page booklet bearing a pleasing array of photos, a historical essay, and personal commentary by Fox on the tracks and their accompanying videos. Listening back to the songs from her first four albums, it's clear why Fox's hit-making streak varied so greatly in different parts of the world. Not one to fancy binding herself to a specific sound, Fox thrived on a healthy mixture of rockers, sweet-toothed pop confections, and edgy hybridsofurban-contemporary arrangements and club beats.In the chart-segregated realm of the late 1980s, this eclecticism wasn't welcomed across the board by programmers and DJs. Thus, some of her biggest hits in the U.K. disappeared with nary a trace in the States, while some of her highest charters in the U.S. of A. didn't fare as well in Europe. But over two decades on, the musical versatility shines through as a point of distinction for Samantha Fox, who was ahead of pop contemporaries such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue in her exploration of multiple genres"