[5] Around this time, the television company ATV Midlands started each day's broadcasting with a short film accompanied by another song performed by Rain with De Sykes singing vocals, "Odyssey" (often incorrectly referred to as "Life is a Beautiful Book").
The other members of the Birds of Paris included Madeline Bell, Joanne Stone, Kay Garner, Sunny Leslie, Sue Glover, Vicki Brown and Katie Kissoon.
[citation needed] Her 1979 self-penned single release "Oh, What A Night For Romance" was featured on the BBC1 show Juke Box Jury, when it was panned by the panel of Dusty Springfield, Tony Blackburn, Jonathan King and Britt Ekland who unanimously correctly predicted it would be a 'miss'.
De Sykes featured in a TV commercial for McVities biscuits in the 1983 Christmas period[8] and soon after provided background vocals for Meat Loaf's 1984 album Bad Attitude,[9] which included the Jim Steinman penned single, "Nowhere Fast".
[10] As a human rights activist,[11][better source needed] her 2015 song "Bomb Babies" was chosen as the opening track for the pro-peace anti-war album Not In Our Name, a collaboration of singers and musicians, songwriters and poets.