Altered Images

BrianD3

Does anyone like this band? When I think of the early 80s one of the first bands that comes to mind is Altered Images. Maybe because they had a short career yet made quite an impression in that time and had a distinctive sound. I was only a young kid in the early eighties so wouldn't have known much about them at the time. But I do have a strong memory of their song Happy Birthday being used for the birthday section of Anything Goes (Saturday monrings on RTE )

A TOTP performance from 1983 was shown on TOTP 2 last week. There are also lots of videos available on youtube. They had some great pop songs and it looked like they were all having a lot of fun. Also the singer Clare Grogan was/is one of the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!

aidan_dunne

BrianD3 wrote:

But I do have a strong memory of their song Happy Birthday being used for the birthday section of Anything Goes (Saturday monrings on RTE )

God, I remember that well. How they used to play that song as the birthday "roller" of all the names scrolled up the screen. Anytime I hear that song now or of the band Altered Images the first thing that always pops into my mind is the 'Anything Goes' birthday roller! Christ, I'm really showing my age now, aren't I? :eek:

BrianD3 wrote:

Also the singer Clare Grogan was/is one of the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!

John Gordon Sinclair and Craig Charles obviously thought much the same as well, eh?*











*me wonders will anyone else be old enough to get the references there!

BrianD3

aidan_dunne wrote:

God, I remember that well. How they used to play that song as the birthday "roller" of all the names scrolled up the screen. Anytime I hear that song now or of the band Altered Images the first thing that always pops into my mind is the 'Anything Goes' birthday roller! Christ, I'm really showing my age now, aren't I? :eek:

Do you know what years Anything Goes was on? I was born in 1978 and reckon the programme was on circa 1982-1984 but am not sure. In any case I would have been very young at the time yet the Happy Birthday roller and music is a very strong memory! I remember very little else about the programme.

John Gordon Sinclair and Craig Charles obviously thought much the same as well, eh?*

Yep, the Red Dwarf connection!

quickbeam

BrianD3 wrote:

Yep, the Red Dwarf connection!

Not quite.

Craig Charles is the Red Dwarf connection. John Gordon Sinclair is the guy from Gregory's Girl which Clare Grogan also stared in.

Don't know the band too well, but I do always think of Kochanski when I think of them (no disrespect to the later actress, but Clare was the ultimate Kochanski)!

mike65

Happy Birthday just annoyed the hell out of me in 1981 but yes Clare Grogan
might catch the eye.

Mike.

Kolodny

I can only really remember 2 of their songs - Happy Birthday and I Could Be Happy. They did have quite a distinctive sound all right.

quickbeam wrote:

(no disrespect to the later actress, but Clare was the ultimate Kochanski)!

Definitely. Made much more sense as the object of Lister's desire, the other girl just didn't seem his type at all

A hell of lot of my male friends now in their 30s confess to having been slightly obsessed with Clare Grogan as young boys.

DublinWriter

BrianD3 wrote:

Also the singer Clare Grogan was/is one of the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!

Steady on!!!

I think she was a regular on Eastenders for a while in the early 1990's, playing Ian Beale's something-or-other.

There's a classic outtake from Swap-Shop (probably on You Tube) of the guitarist in Altered Images suddenly swinging around and smacking Clare square on the gob with his guitar.

nlgbbbblth

BrianD3 wrote:

Do you know what years Anything Goes was on? I was born in 1978 and reckon the programme was on circa 1982-1984 but am not sure. In any case I would have been very young at the time yet the Happy Birthday roller and music is a very strong memory! I remember very little else about the programme.

Anything Goes started in September or October 1980.

It ran until 1986 as far as I remember.

Kipperhell

BrianD3 wrote:

Also the singer Clare Grogan was/is one of the most beautiful woman I've ever seen!

Not so much now. I saw here on something recently and she isn't looking as hot.

I also read an interview with her and she basically had a huge ego as shortly after she left school she had a number one film,number one album and single. She said it kind of messed her up as a result. The album isn't that bad but happy birthday is the stand out track.

nlgbbbblth

Kipperhell wrote:

Not so much now. I saw here on something recently and she isn't looking as hot.

I also read an interview with her and she basically had a huge ego as shortly after she left school she had a number one film,number one album and single. She said it kind of messed her up as a result. The album isn't that bad but happy birthday is the stand out track.

Second album Pinky Blue is better than Happy Birthday.

Third LP is ok too.

Cork

I Could Be Happy

What a cool song.
I bought a cheap 80's cd recently - entended 80's - that song is amazing.

I remember the birthday roller - they used also use the bealtes - "you say yes - i say no you stay stop and I say go".

Is it "you say goodbye"?

boneless

Did Ms. Grogan play the Sinead O'Connor type pop star in an episode of 'Father Ted'?

aidan_dunne

boneless wrote:

Did Ms. Grogan play the Sinead O'Connor type pop star in an episode of 'Father Ted'?

Yep, that was her alright. And didn't she just look fantastic in those tight leather pants?

mike65

Cork wrote:

What a cool song.
I remember the birthday roller - they used also use the bealtes - "you say yes - i say no you stay stop and I say go".

Is it "you say goodbye"?

Hello, Goodbye is the tune its on the "White Album" (actually called The Beatles).

Mike.