Favorite 'Forgotten' Popstar?

I mean, besides Mariah Carey.

A quick trip down your local 80s night would seem to scupper your premise, Lord C. Pop is only forgotten when the generation that listened to it die out.

To answer the question - I don't know really. I liked Paul King a lot more when he was a pop star in ridiculous boots and a tartan suit than when he was an MTV presenter. So I'll say him.

jane child was the one with the chain from her ear to her nose? i am surprised that look didn't catch on, it complemented her mohawk nicely.

I liked that first video of hers that showed her looking tortured in the recording studio, alternating with walking down the street and looking down while singing. Deep ARTISTE! "Love me!"

Is Jane Child any relation to Desmond Child? (Record store fun fact: when Desmond "I've written lots of songs for more famous arists" Child released his solo album, we got tons of posters from the rekkid company, which we promptly defaced to read "DEMON CHILD".)

does anyone remember Tracie from the 1980s?

she was completely rubbish, even by the standards of rubbish pop stars. She had a hit with song called "give it some emotion" and maybe one or two others, but what was most striking about her is the extent to which no one at all apart from me remembers even her existence.

At times I wonder if I have accidentally fallen through into a nigh identical parallel universe.

Another thread on forgotten stars was cleverly disguised here.

Jimmy Ray Cicero Seal Darius (what, already?)

I remember Tracie.

She was part of Paul Weller's attempt to set up a new Tamla Motown type stable. She can also be seen on TOTP reruns performing backing vocals with the Style Council (and looking very awkward).

Does anyone know (I won't say remember) Steel Mill? I really wish I could find a copy of "Green-eyed God".

Tracie's last great moment was her vocals on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", one of the Style Council's greatest songs. Has a group ever been so plodding one minute and so sublime the next ? "The Collection", a mid-price compilation including a lot of Tracie's rather than DC Lee's contributions, is an inspired choice of tracklisting full of their chugging pop and Gallic nods - way better than the 'proper' singles album.

I always thought Martika could have developed into something had she not fallen completely off the face of the earth... "Toy Soldiers" was a cool song and had a little more substance than contemporaries Debbie Gibson and Tiffany (who I understand is appearing in Playboy?)... anyway, I remember her.

Limahl isn't quite in this 'forgotten' category, but I needed an excuse to mention his appearance on that new nostalgia game show presented by Zoe Ball on Saturday evenings. I was impressed. And all these 35 yr old women in the audience were mouthing the words (to "Too Shy" and "Never Ending Story"). There was something very poignant about that.

Gibson and Tiffany totally had substance.

Gibson especially, as she was the ROCKIST pop star.

forgotten about zoe?? (sunshine on a rainy day, makes my soul, makes my soul drift (drip) drift away-ee-ay!) she coulda been a contender eh??

Nobody give me any shit for being a Juliana Hatfield fan. It's "The highest paid piece of ass...You know it's not gonna last...those magazines end up in the trash." I'm sure you tweaked magazines into smash hits purposefully, but it would make sense just fine with the first part as is. I'm not giving you a hard time, L.C. I promise.

Olivia Newton-John

Neneh Cherry, who wouldn't be forgotten if (1) she got into the studio more often and (2) her albums were released domestically. Although it had a lot of Lilith Fair overtones, I enjoyed many of the tracks on her last album "Man."

I second the vote for Martika. Her second album showed a lot of promise, particularly the Prince collaboration "Love. . . Thy Will Be Done."

My subquestion is this: Where is Jane Child or Basia, now? Big only in Japan and Brazil or, like Kylie, has she been around the whole time, still on the UK popcharts and us out-of-it Yanks are kept in the dark?

Jane Child's "Don't Wanna Fall In Love" once got played by, IIRC, Gary Davies on the Wednesday lunchtime US chart rundown and he mentioned that they'd been struggling to find a copy. That gives you an idea of how big she was here, though I think the song made the Top 40. Basia never even went that far.

I share "Green Eyed God" on Audiogalaxy all the time and anyone who wants to upload it can scrounge off me.

Um. "Green Eyed God"? Never heard of that one.

Um. "Green Eyed God"? Never heard of that one.

By Steel Mill on Penny Farthing Records. Reached the lowest reaches of the UK singles charts at some point in the early '70s. I remember really liking it but I have no recollection of what it actually sounded like. In 1983 I met someone who had been a member of the group. He was astounded when I could name this single by them. He said Larry Page had given each of them a sum of money and sent them all over the country to buy up copies from chart return shops. "We managed to get it up to about no. 50 [can't remember exact chart placing] but that was as far as we could push it", he told me.

There's an album as well. Some of it is quite well-thought of in Prog circles I believe.