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Clare Grogan - oh, what a babe she was. She was my first serious pop-babe crush and when you get a crush at 13, boy do you get a crush! I bought Pinky Blue in 1982 instead of buying my mum her birthday present! I got their first album Happy Birthday for my 13th birthday in June 1982. Then they went all sophisticated with Bite in 1983. I was into the Beatles by then but still had plenty of time to listen to Clare and dream that one day we would meet! Yes, I had the posters, I bought the picture discs and the singles that came in picture bags (a 45 wrapped in a poster - remember them?). And I had the dreams. I even had an Altered Images T shirt, my first pop T shirt infact! I might be 35 this year but I am not ashamed to admit that when it comes to anything Clare Grogan, I've still got a bit of a soft spot and memories of school dinners at 25p a day, school uniform and kissing one of the many posters in my bedroom come flooding back! 'I would like to climb high in the trees...,'.

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  • Anonymous user
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    The summer of 1981..Altered Images and red Kicker boots - what a great combination for a fourteen year old!
  • Anonymous user
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    I liked their late '82 stuff- 'Don't Talk To Me About Love' (which is about a girl disillusioned with romance after having an unplanned pregnancy and a traumatic abortion), and 'I See You've Had A Change Of Heart'. Didn't realise she was the actress from 'Gregory's Girl'. There used to be an night club in Bromsgrove, near Birmingham, a few years ago called Altered Images after the band. It's closed down now-needless to say, the inspiration for the name was lost upon the younger generations of clubbers!
  • McG
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    Wasn't she on Eastenders a few years back? I'm sure she played Ian's girlfriend. I only watched it so I could see her.
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember watching Altered Imaged on Saturday morning telly (Multi-Coloured Swap Shop?) Claire was freaking out to Happy Birthday and head butted a guitar giving herself a black eye! That will teach you to mime badly!
  • Anonymous user
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    CPG was a babe? She was ok in Gregory's Girl...but better as kochanski in Red Dwarf in the early 90s. I seem to recall seeing her on VH1 a few years back as a VJ....

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