7 January – Step by step, hand in hand, more and more

You wait ages, and then two duos come along at once. One’s a classic song with an instant hook and star potential. And the other is from Chanée & N’evergreen.

I joke of course. Every song has its fans, and you’ll struggle to find a song that no-one loves. Today’s birthday girl is Chris(tiane) Kempers. She was paired up with a Yugoslav and packed off to sunny Zagreb with a song by everybody’s favourite German Eurovisionist Ralph Siegel. They finished in the top 10, but could it be that one of the parties in this duo was a better singer than the other?

Chris is 54 today.

Frohe Geburtstag, Chris!