It’s the Choob’s birthday today (the Choob who writes and assembles all this nonsense, that is, not the blog itself) - and because I’m so generous YOU all get a present!
It’s a Top Of The Pops Extra, featuring 80s post-punk popsters Altered Images - with the ever-adorable Clare Grogan on vocals - singing (what else?) Happy Birthday.
Gorgeous Clare also, of course, starred in the film Gregory’s Girl (not to mention Red Dwarf) and I don’t know a guy from my generation who didn’t fancy her rotten – and doesn’t still!
Now, there used to be a great video of the band performing the song on Top of the Pops back in 1981 but it has become corrupted somehow and is all-but unwatchable, so here is the next best vintage “live” video, from another 1981 TOTP performance:
And as an extra-special birthday treat, to compare and contrast in a then-and-now kind of a way, here is a live (and lively!) performance by lovely Clare (now aged 47) from one of those 80s nostalgia gigs in September 2008:
