Wasn't it good? Wasn't he fine?

Mate! [click to embiggen]

Monday, Monday, Monday. Sigh...

On this Tacky Music Monday - spurred on mainly by the combination of the terrifying thought that Bjorn & Benny's post-ABBA magnum opus Chess (the concept album, released before the show was ever staged) is forty years old this year, AND the discovery of the bizarre and unexplained array of "naked chess pieces" in the photo at the head of this post...

...here's the ultimate in camp duets - with all its high hairdos, neon, dry ice and shoulder-pads - to serve as our wake-up call. All together, now!

Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well

Have a good week, dear reader.

The Voice! The Hair!

Among another slew of famous names whose birthday it is, including the late, great Meat Loaf, Nicky Haslam, Alvin Stardust, Cosimo de' Medici, (Lord) Bernard Miles, Avril Lavigne, Diane Abbott, Shaun Cassidy, Denis Lawson, Gordon Honeycombe, Lil Wayne (40), Irvine Welsh, Don Cornelius, Vincent Youmans, Barbara Murray, Dame Josephine Barstow, and - erm - professional "looney-tune" Gwyneth Paltrow (50), the magnificent Miss Barbara Dickson blows out 75 candles on her cake today!

Let's celebrate with a mere soupçon of the lady's great body of work...

Barbara Dickson - Another Suitcase in Another Hall

Barbara Dickson - Caravan Song

...and, finally - the (camp) classic!

Elaine Paige, Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well [from Chess]

Many happy returns, Barbara Ruth Dickson OBE (born 27th September 1947)

But I was ever so much younger then

As today is the 65th birthday of the lovely and pocket-sized singer-and-musical-theatre-player turned Radio 2 presenter Miss Elaine Paige, I thought it apt to feature perhaps her finest recorded moment (in the company of the incomparable Miss Barbara Dickson).

Every queen in the universe can sing this song word for word - it's I Know Him So Well!

Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well

Camper than a row of tents...

Elaine Paige OBE official website