The guy I was dating at the time was a Spanish DJ and was much more famous than I was, so if we were in a restaurant people would come up and ask for his autograph and wouldn’t even look at me! So that was pretty funny." She enjoyed knocking Wet Wet Wet off Number 1. Even when Saturday Night had been a big hit in Spain I could easily walk around. "I was driving round going from one gig to another in Portugal and my manager called me up and said” “You’re going to receive a phone call from the BBC in five minutes so pick it up! The next morning when I was flown into the UK and I got out of the plane, there were, like, ten photographers and that was weird. Whifield still remembers where she was when she found out Saturday Night had reached Number 1 in the UK. Larry, the producer, put it in the song because he thought it was catchy." "People think it was meant on purpose, but it was actually a bad take. MORE: Whigfield's complete Official UK Chart history, including five Top 40 singles The “dee dee na na” in the intro was a mistake One of the main DJs on one of the main radio stations in Spain, Los Cuarentas Principales (Spanish for ‘’Top 40’, fact fans!) started playing it every Saturday night, and it just kind of went from there." We tried to release it in so many countries but nobody wanted to pick it up until this very very tiny record label in Valencia, Spain – these two guys they had a record store and they picked it up. "Saturday Night was just part of a few demos that had been put down that year. I guess if I’d stopped everything and become a mum and stayed at home it would’ve been different, but when you live a fast life, the time seems to fly." Saturday Night had been around since 1991 and nobody wanted to release it. I don’t feel the real age when you see yourself in the mirror – I don’t feel any older than 26.
"I don’t think about it much – it’s kind of weird. "I can’t believe it!" she told us of the track's then 20th anniversary. Whighfield doesn't think about Saturday Night as much as the rest of us. We spoke to Whigfield back in 2014 about her memories of being the dragon-slayer of pop and what she’s been doing since. 25 years ago this month, 24-year-old Sannie Carlson – that’s Whigfield to you and me – ended Wet Wet Wet’s incredible 15-week residency at Number 1 with Love Is All Around and, with europop classic Saturday Night, broke a new chart record too.
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