[1] Holliman intended to train as a horse riding instructor,[2] but after she developed hay fever at the age of 18 and with nothing else to do, her then-boyfriend Andrew Ridgeley suggested she come and dance while he and his friend George Michael's band played a local gig.

[1] After Lee left to join the Style Council – she later married that group's lead singer Paul Weller – she was replaced by Helen "Pepsi" DeMacque, and this duo performed on all the Wham!

Created immediately after the Wembley concert with the aim of having an upbeat and more purely pop sound, they had two UK top 10 hits: "Heartache", which was produced by Phil Fearon and Tambi Fernando and reached No.

1 hit of George Michael and Aretha Franklin's "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"),[2] and "Goodbye Stranger", produced by Tambi Fernando and Pete Hammond, which reached No.

Pepsi & Shirlie went on hiatus in 1989, briefly returning twice: once in 1991 with an album, Change, which was widely ignored, then again in 2000 to record backing vocals on the UK number one Geri Halliwell hit "Bag It Up".

[4] In January 2023, Holliman appeared alongside her husband Martin Kemp on the fourth series of The Masked Singer as "Cat & Mouse".

[2] After Holliman took time out from work to care for her husband through his illness with brain tumours,[1] she was declared bankrupt in September 1996,[1] and the family moved from Hampstead Heath to Muswell Hill to allow Kemp to recover.