Happy Birthday is the debut album by the British

United Kingdom

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 new wave

New Wave music

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 band Altered Images

Altered Images

Altered Images were an early 1980s Scottish New Wave / post-punk band. Led by lead singer Clare Grogan, the band branched into mainstream pop music, and had a string of chart hits between 1981 and 1983.-Early career:...

. Released in 1981, the album's title track became the band's biggest hit, peaking at number 2 in the UK in October of that year.

The album reached number 26 in the UK Album Chart and was certified Silver by the BPI

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 for sales in excess of 60,000 copies.

Originally only released on vinyl album and cassette in 1981, the album was reissued on CD in 2004 by Edsel Records. Entitled Happy Birthday...Plus, it contained the original album along with six bonus tracks including the band's first single "Dead Pop Stars" which had peaked at number 67 earlier in 1981 but was not included on the original album.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Intro: Happy Birthday" – 0:44
2. "Love and Kisses" – 2:18
3. "Real Toys" – 3:23
4. "Idols" – 2:27
5. "Legionaire" – 3:30
6. "Faithless" – 3:49
7. "Beckoning Strings" – 3:05

Side Two

1. "Happy Birthday" – 3:00
2. "Midnight" – 3:39
3. "A Days Wait" – 4:20
4. "Leave Me Alone" – 4:08
5. "Insects" – 3:28
6. "Outro: Happy Birthday" – 0:44

Bonus tracks on Happy Birthday...Plus CD

1. "Dead Pop Stars" – 3:17
2. "Sentimental" – 3:24
3. "Who Cares?" – 3:00
4. "Happy Birthday" (Dance Mix) – 7:03
5. "So We Go Whispering" – 3:47
6. "Jeepster" – 2:29

Personnel

• Clare Grogan
  Clare Grogan
  Clare Grogan is a Scottish actress and singer. She is sometimes credited as C. P. Grogan.-Early life:...
  
   - vocals
• Michael "Tich" Anderson - drums
• Tony McDaid - guitar
• Johnny McElhone
  Johnny McElhone
  John Francis "Johnny" McElhone is a Scottish guitarist and songwriter.Unusually, he has played with three, otherwise unconnected rock bands, who have all enjoyed a Top 20 presence in the UK Singles Chart. Indeed, two of those groups have repeated that feat in the UK Albums Chart...
  
  - bass
• Gerard "Caesar" McNulty - guitar on "A Days Wait"