- Cats U.K. were a British four-piece girl band formed in the late 1970s, and featuring actress Deena Payne. They scored a hit with the single "Luton Aiport", which reached number 22 in the UK singles chart in October 1979. Two more singles, "Holiday Camp" and "16, Looking for Love", followed in 1980, but failed to match their first chart success. They broke up shortly afterward.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- The band released three singles in the United Kingdom: "Luton Airport", "Holiday Camp" and "16, Looking for Love". "Luton Airport" reached number 22 in the UK singles chart, but the other singles failed to chart, leading to the group's disbandment.
- The first single released by the band - and the only one which charted in the United Kingdom - was entitled "Luton Airport", and was inspired by a famous British television commercial for Campari. In the commercial, an amorous man, played by Jeremy Clyde, spots a beautiful woman played by Lorraine Chase and asks her: "Were you truly wafted here from paradise?" She comically responds in a heavy cockney accent: "Nah, Luton Airport!" Coincidentally, one of the band's members was actress Deena Payne, who would go on to star alongside Chase in Emmerdale Farm (1972).
- The band was originally named Cats, but in order to avoid any confusion with the Dutch band The Cats, they were renamed Cats U.K..
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