Peter Blegvad - Karen (1983) • TopPop

Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of German/English avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who were respectively, a children’s book author and illustrator. In the 1980s, Blegvad released a number of commercially unsuccessful albums on the Virgin Records label, including ’The Naked Shakespeare’ and ’Knights Like This’. ’The Naked Shakespeare’ was anything but straightforward, with his usual wordplay and philosophical wonderings woven through the lyrics that accompanied the alt-pop 80s tunes. ’Karen’ was a leftover from Blegvad’s days with Slapp Happy. He recorded a demo with the band, unusually taking the vocal lead himself. That version was a bit lugubrious but intriguing; it showed up on a reissue of the band’s ’Acnalbasac Noom’ as a bonus track. For ’The Naked Shakespeare’, he worked it up in the vein of the rest of the album and everything clicked. It’s a song of obsession and loss that wonders if a period of lusty joy is worth the final price. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 21 October 1983 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.