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Clare Grogan, the Glossary

Claire Patricia Grogan (born 17 March 1962), known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer.^[1]

75 relations: Absolute Radio 80s, Altered Images, Band (rock and pop), BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Scotland, BBC Television, Bill Forsyth, Birmingham Mail, Bite (album), Blott on the Landscape, Chesney Hawkes, Comfort and Joy (1984 film), Comic Relief, Doctors (2000 TV series), Don't Talk to Me About Love, Drum kit, EastEnders, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Educating Rita, Equity (British trade union), Evening Standard, Father Ted, Frankie Miller, Gary Maclean, Glasgow, Gregory's Girl, Guitar, Happy Birthday (Altered Images song), Here and Now Tour, Higher (Scottish), Hyacinths and Thistles, I Could Be Happy, Ian Beale, John Shuttleworth (character), Johnny McElhone, Kristine Kochanski, Legit (2006 TV series), Let's Sing and Dance, Limahl, List of EastEnders characters (1997), List of stock characters, London Borough of Haringey, Matt Lucas, Mini McGuinness, New wave music, NME, Notre Dame High School, Glasgow, Peter Kay, Pop music, ... Expand index (25 more) »
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Absolute Radio 80s

Absolute Radio 80s (known on-air as Absolute 80s) is a national digital radio station, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Absolute Radio Network.

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Altered Images

Altered Images are a Scottish new wave/post-punk band who found success in the early 1980s.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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Bill Forsyth

William David Forsyth (born 29 July 1946).

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The Birmingham Mail (branded the Black Country Mail in the Black Country) is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, England, but distributed around Birmingham, the Black Country, and Solihull and parts of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.

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Bite (album)

Bite is the third studio album by Scottish new wave band Altered Images, released on 17 June 1983 by Epic Records in the UK, and Portrait Records in the US.

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Blott on the Landscape

Blott on the Landscape is a novel by Tom Sharpe which was first published in 1975.

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Chesney Hawkes

Chesney Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971) is an English singer and occasional actor.

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Comfort and Joy (1984 film)

Comfort and Joy is a 1984 Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Bill Paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the famine in Ethiopia.

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Doctors (2000 TV series)

Doctors is a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000.

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Don't Talk to Me About Love

"Don't Talk to Me About Love" is a song by Scottish new wave band Altered Images, released as the first single from their third album, Bite.

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Drum kit

A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.

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EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows across 322 venues.

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Educating Rita

Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell.

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Equity (British trade union)

Equity, formerly officially titled the British Actors' Equity Association, is the trade union for the performing arts and entertainment industries in the United Kingdom.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Father Ted

Father Ted is a sitcom created by Irish writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews and produced by British production company Hat Trick Productions for British television channel Channel 4.

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Frankie Miller

Francis John Miller (born 2 November 1949) is a Scottish rock singer-songwriter and actor. Clare Grogan and Frankie Miller are singers from Glasgow.

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Gary Maclean

Gary Maclean is a Scottish chef, author and the first National Chef of Scotland.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Gregory's Girl

Gregory's Girl is a 1980 Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Happy Birthday (Altered Images song)

"Happy Birthday" is a song by Scottish band Altered Images, released as a single from their 1981 album of the same name.

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Here and Now Tour

The Here and Now Tour is a series of concert tours, which began in 2001, featuring groups and singers famous in the 1980s.

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Higher (Scottish)

In the Scottish secondary education system, the Higher is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.

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Hyacinths and Thistles

Hyacinths and Thistles is the second studio album by the indie rock band The 6ths.

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I Could Be Happy

"I Could Be Happy" is a song by Scottish new wave band Altered Images, released as the first single from their second album, Pinky Blue.

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Ian Beale

Ian Albert Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Adam Woodyatt.

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John Shuttleworth (character)

John Shuttleworth is a fictional singer-songwriter and radio presenter, created in 1985 and performed by English comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows.

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Johnny McElhone

John Francis McElhone (born 21 April 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish guitarist and songwriter. Clare Grogan and Johnny McElhone are Scottish new wave musicians.

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Kristine Kochanski

Kristine Z. Kochanski is a fictional character from the British science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf.

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Legit (2006 TV series)

Legit is a Scottish sitcom produced by The Comedy Unit, written by Robert Florence and Iain Connell and broadcast on BBC One Scotland.

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Let's Sing and Dance

Let's Sing and Dance, formerly known as Let's Dance, is a British television programme shown on BBC One, featuring celebrities performing famous dance routines to raise money for the charities Comic Relief and Sport Relief.

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Limahl

Christopher Hamill (born 19 December 1958), known professionally as Limahl (an anagram of Hamill), is a British pop singer.

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List of EastEnders characters (1997)

The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1997, by order of first appearance.

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List of stock characters

A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works.

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London Borough of Haringey

The London Borough of Haringey (same as Harringay) is a London borough in north London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London.

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Matt Lucas

Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer and television presenter.

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Mini McGuinness

Minerva "Mini" McGuinness is a fictional character from the third generation of the British teen drama Skins, played by Freya Mavor.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Notre Dame High School, Glasgow

Notre Dame High School is a local, catchment based state funded secondary school for both girls and boys, located on Observatory Road in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Peter Kay

Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy series created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Restaurant

A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers.

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Rock a Hula Ted

"Rock a Hula Ted" is the seventh episode of the second series of Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, and the thirteenth episode overall.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London.

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Sea of Souls

Sea of Souls is a BBC paranormal drama series, recounting the fictional activities of a group of investigators into psychic and other paranormal events.

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Sinéad O'Connor

Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Skins (British TV series)

Skins is a British teen comedy drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form.

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Solo (music)

In music, a solo (alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Grogan

Also known as C P Grogan, C. P. Grogan, C.P. Grogan, Claire Grogan (Photographer), Claire Patricia Grogan.

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See also

British women new wave singers

Scottish new wave musicians

Scottish women songwriters

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