The Bluebells is tagged as: 80s, indie pop, scottish, new wave, jangle pop The Bluebells were a Scottish pop group in the 1980s. Peddling a kind of jangly guitar pop not dissimilar to their Scottish contemporaries Aztec Camera and Orange Juice, they had three hit singles in the UK, all written by guitarist and founder member Bobby Bluebell (aka Robert Hodgens) - “I’m Falling” with Ken McCluskey , “Cath”, and their biggest success “Young At Heart”. The latter was co-written with Siobhan Fahey (with whom Hodgens was romantically linked for a while) and made it to No.8 in the UK singles chart on its original release in 1984. The band also released two albums, “The Bluebells” and “Sisters”. The band split up in the mid-1980s, but enjoyed an unexpected - albeit brief - revival in 1993 when “Young At Heart” was used in a Volkswagen TV commercial. Re-issued as a single, it was No.1 for four weeks and led to the band reforming temporarily to perform the song on Top of the Pops. A singles collection followed. At the time of the 1990s revival, band member Lawrence Donegan - who trained as a journalist after the band’s demise and is now golfing correspondent for The Guardian - wrote a newspaper article reminiscing about his days as a Bluebell which caused some friction betwee... Read More About The Bluebells Biography...  Send The Bluebells ringtones to your cell
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