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Dancing for Joy

We all won! The following will have to do until I find pics of last night’s celebrations.

Collette - Ring My Bell

Collette Roberts is an Australian pop artist who performed as ‘Collette’ in the 1980’s and 90’s. She claims to have started the tshirt-over-lycra fad in Australia, which might be a bit of a stretch, if I may say so myself. Today, Collette is a model and make-up artist, and volunteers at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. She played out as recently as 2006.

Here’s the video of her 1989 hit single “Ring My Bell” from the album “Raze the Roof”

Collette made it to the cover of Smash Hits Magazine! From the exclusive Interview:

The impetus for "Ring My Bell" came about when our gal, a self confessed "club person" was out at various nightspots and happened to notice the great reaction that "Ring My Bell" got when the DJ played the original version… Collette decided that the song could do with being "brought up to date" and "modernized" and so went into a recording studio to lay down a demo of the song - took it to a record company and hey presto! she had a recording contract, made a single and became a star overnight!

… "I went into a newsagent to buy a lollipop - I really like lollipops - and I was just there to buy this 30c lollipop and then girl starts chucking a mental going "Oh my god it’s Collette". Here I am standing there with my lollipop and she’s going "What flavour would you like Collette?" and I’m going, "Oh, lime", and she’s going "We also have orange and raspberry!" and I’m going "No, I’ll just have lime thanks!


Did she give it to me free? Nah! I think she was too overwhelmed to ask for an autograph too!"

… "I think Collette does appeal to everyone," she insists. "It’s just me and it’s not too far away from me. Anyone can dress like me. A lot of girls out there can relate to me. I’m not wearing anything you can’t buy or copy. I’ve really begun to notice that almost every girl about eight is wearing bicycle pants and a t-shirt. It’s really funny!"