You are so spot on in the 80s I done club work and had a mobile disco if I was doing club work I got told by management to play a couple of duff tracks through the evening to clear the dance floor so the punters would head to the bar and spend money on alcohol

At the end of the night 2 slowies and good night !

Come on then, don't write a post like this without telling us what you considered the duff tracks that would clear the floor and send everyone off for refreshments instead!

She was, is and will always be mine. So hands off

She is in her 50's. Where did all those years go

Just caught up on this. Is that the third Scottish 'front page to middle age' guest?

I doubt Claire would have been studying for her A levels as claimed by Sarah. It would have been Highers she sat.

Their first hit was doomed from the start in my opinion. Just a few weeks after John Lennon got shot, Altered Images had a record out called Dead Pop Stars! Not great timing. It scraped the lower Top 75.

However, it was on this very date, Tuesday 27th October 1981, that their biggest hit, Happy Birthday, reached No2 in the charts for it's 3 week long runner up position. I always thought she was just 17 at the time of those first hits, but infact it turns out she was almost 20. Anyway, isn't 50 the new 30 nowadays? Those 32 years have passed by in obscene haste.

In my opinion their later hit 'Don't Talk to me about Love' is just one of those perfect pop songs.

Fell in love with her when I first saw her in Gregory's Girl, loved her ever since Don't let the wife know though

I've seen Claire a couple of times at 80's revival gigs and she's always been great value.

I really rate See Those Eyes and my personal favourite Bring Me Closer.

It was a short but very memorable pop career. I've bought Don't Talk To Me About Love on iTunes not so very long ago. It was of course their final big hit, just 18 months after the first. But all this time later it is all so very memorable. For me, I Could Be Happy sums Clare Grogan up perfectly.

Finally got around to hearing last weeks Sounds Of The 80's on the catch up player mid-week and thoroughly enjoyed the show, especially the guests Clare Grogan & Howard Jones. Just a shame that Clare didn't spend a lot longer chatting about herself, she clearly wanted to! Such a lovely feel good personality surrounds her just like I remembered and it was so pleasing to hear, as was I Could Be Happy after the chat.

A good mix of tracks, but could do with just a few more 80's hit singles that never get heard anymore, although the penultimate ending track with Ryan Paris was a good example of one of these.

Bring on tonights show, which features one of my all time fave albums, Dare by Human League and the top five from this week in 1987 when Bee Gees were back at No1 with their first sizable hit of the decade. I recall that was a massive surprise at that time. Plus the lead singer of Men At Work who always looked like a somewhat scary fellow to me! They had 3 or 4 good hits, not just Down Under, so I hope not just the obvious gets a play. While I was missing this show last weekend I was listening to Down Under getting played in the theatre as Dame Edna Everage made her entrance on stage before me!

Considering recent events I wonder if Radio 2 are considering brining the start time forward to 9pm and giving us an extra hour of the show?

Liza Tarbuck in the meantime could stay on air until 9pm

On air- David Bowie Modern Love first up..

HI Rich Tea - -you here?

I am Alcockell, are we holding hands for the second radio show today?

NIce to hear Dress You Up again. How many top ten hits in 1985 was it for Madonna? I think this was about her 7th.

Bit of Chic-produced Madonna...

LOL- or working through a load more coffee/beer /whatever...

Tea and er....fig rolls for me. Sorry to disappoint on the bics. Plus a few wine gums thrown in.

If you counted Like A Virgin which was still top ten in early 1985 then Madonna had EIGHT top ten singles within that year.

Has the album Dare aged well do you think?

Possibly- considering the number of times Don't You Want Me has been referenced...

I think so too. Released 32 years ago this past week, and what a good autumn it was in '81. The girls and Phil haven't aged too badly either.

I also bought it on cassette tape in Woolworths like the person read out on air said, but 5 full years after it came out!

Checkout their 2001 album "Secrets" if you like Dare. It sold few copies but is Human League on form.

I hadn't heard this Gwen Guthrie hit in years but in the past few weeks I've suddenly heard it about 4 or 5 times from various sources, including here now in 12" form. I think I like it better now than back in 1986 actually.

CIN ads are earning Jim Steinman a shedload of cash..

Bee Gees - was bloody lucky we had them rather than Take That at the first R1 Roadshow I covered with SJA back in 94.

(SJA?)


Bee Gees, You Win Again actually went to No1 exactly 20 years to the week after their first chart topper in 1967, Massachussetts. Quirky factoid for you! I bought the album ESP that it came from but it produced no more hit singles apart from that No1 oddly enough, although they still had many big hits to come right up to the millennium quite rightly.

SJA- St John Ambulance.

Ahhh - I remember bellowing this out at student discos...

Ah- Body Rock. Only ever heard the track - and sadly the clips were taken down off Youtube - I understand it's one of those really bad films that is hilarious -.
Only wish Netflix or someone could get the UK rights...

Ahhh - the classic track everyone remembers...

Much as I love Don't You Want Me it would have been nice to hear other tracks from Dare being played. What with Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi I think that it was a bit too predictable.

I'm appreciating some songs like Saturday Love much better than when they were hits at the time. Nice and catchy.