![]() This association soon resulted in the choice of Banshees bassist Steven Severin to produce AI's first recorded work. In 1980 Clare appeared in Bill Forsyth's film Gregory's Girl which helped to bring attention to the band, and after sending a demo to Siouxsie & The Banshees they secured an opening slot for their 1980 tour. ![]() You can go back in time and check it out here.Written by: Anthony McDaid, Bryan Vincent Keegan, Clare Patricia Grogan, Gerard McElhone, John McElhone, Michael AndersonĪltered Images formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1979, with founding members Clare Grogan (vocals), Gerard “Caesar” McInulty (guitar), Johnny McElhone (bass), Tony McDaid (guitar), and Michael "Tich" Anderson (drums). I wrote about today’s Song of the Day – “Happy Birthday” back in 2014, as well. This makes Altered Images Happy Birthday one of the best choices of albums to listen to on my birthday today – thank you for that, Altered Images. I love how the album starts and ends with pieces of the song “Happy Birthday” (“Intro: Happy Birthday” and “Outro: Happy Birthday”). I’d love to get my hands on either of these re-releases or at least a copy of the original release that I once had. The album was re-issued on 180-gram black vinyl LP with a bonus 7″ on red vinyl, in 2016, and then again in 2017, for Record Store Day, this time on 180-gram black vinyl with additional tracks. It was a few years after its release, in 1985, I believe, when I first found the album and made it my own. They had an amazing “Import” section full of so much New Wave and Post-Punk music (my go-to/favorite music genre in my teen years). I remember finding it in a bin at Music Market, one of my favorite record stores in the ’80s. The album reached #26 in the UK Album Charts and was certified Silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 60,000 copies. Released in 1981, it featured today’s Song of the Day – “Happy Birthday” – the band’s biggest ever hit. Happy Birthday was Altered Images debut album. Some of my favorite tracks (besides this one) are “A Days Wait”, “Faithless”, and “Midnight”. If you like what you hear with “Happy Birthday“, and if this is your first Altered Images song, check-out the entire album Happy Birthday. “Happy Birthday” (live, 1981) by Altered Images Their big hits included today’s Song of the Day – “Happy Birthday“, “I Could Be Happy” (my all-time favorite track of theirs), “See Those Eyes”, and “Don’t Talk To Me About Love”. The band had six UK Top 40 hits during their career, between the years of 1981-1983. ![]() I hope you stick around for the changes and participate by sharing your thoughts and reactions in the comments.Īltered Images were an early 80’s Scottish New Wave/Post-Punk band fronted by Clare Grogan. That said, I will still be sharing my songs of the day, as well as my Top 5 music obsessions of the day, along with movies of the day, Top 5 weekly lists, playlists, and some of the other special features that have been here since I started this space a little over eight years ago. There will be more personal posts, more memoir-type essays, as well as posts that focus on bigger themes. It will no longer be music-focused, though music will always play a big part. I really did think it was over, but my obsessions with music and movies and books and TV, and writing about them – well that’s just never going to be over. As a present to myself, I’ve decided to relaunch Lyriquediscorde. Those opening notes of “Happy Birthday” always remind me of the movie and my lifetime love of Molly Ringwald. My first initial music-memory this song elicits is the John Hughes’ film, Sixteen Candles, a movie I would first see while on vacation with my Grandmother on Catalina Island. “Happy Birthday” was the only song on their debut album that Rushent produced. The track was produced by Martin Rushent, who also produced The Human League the same year, and went on to produce the band’s second album, Pinky Blue.
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