release date: Aug. 1981
format: vinyl (EPCA 1522)
[single rate: 4 / 5] [3,86]
producer: Martin Rushent
label: Epic Records - nationality: Scotland, UK
Tracklist: A1. "Happy Birthday" (4,5 / 5) - - B1. "So We Go Whispering"
Single release by Altered Images preceding the band's forthcoming debut album. The single is produced by Martin Rushent who previously had worked with The Raybeats on their fine Guitar Beat and Human League on its great album Dare. The B-side is not an original album track, but has been included on later issues of the debut album containing bonus material.
"Happy Birthday" entered the singles chart list in the UK in Sep. '81 and peaked as high as number #2 one month later, ultimately making it the band's best-selling single ever but also, in retrospect, placed the band in the category as 'one-hit wonders'.
