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The single was Grammy-nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" of 1983. [12] The follow-up single, "Almost Over You", reached the US Top 30 and was a number 4 AC chart hit. "Almost Over You" was very popular in Asia and was covered by Chinese singer Cass Pang. It also became a hit on the Country charts for Lila McCann in 1998. [13]
Claire Patricia Grogan (born 17 March 1962), known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer.She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images, as well as for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf as the first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski.
Scottish women singers by century (4 C) C. Scottish contraltos (8 P) G. Scottish girl groups (4 P) J. Scottish women jazz singers (5 P) M. Scottish mezzo-sopranos (1 ...
She performed a one-off show at the Barrowland, Glasgow 2 March 2013 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the God's Home Movie album and the release of her ninth studio album, HOME. [5] In January 2013 she married her long-term partner, Alanna, in Lanark, where she lived as a teenager. [1]
Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics.
Her version of the song was released almost simultaneously as a version by the all-female band The Belle Stars. Natasha appeared on Top of the Pops, and the song rose to number 10 on the UK singles chart in the summer of 1982 (the Belle Stars version peaked at no.35 in the UK but was later a Top 20 hit in the US). Natasha's version also charted ...
The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976. [ 3 ] She is also a two-time Olivier Award -winning actress, [ 4 ] with roles including Viv Nicholson in the musical Spend Spend Spend , and was the original Mrs ...
During the 1980s, Scottish music featured post-punk bands exemplified by Simple Minds and Josef K, and bands like Runrig that remained closer to the Scottish dance music tradition. Folk rock or Celtic rock bands launched in the 1980s included The Waterboys and The Proclaimers .