It's Mr Thomas Dolby's 65th birthday today (gulp!).
Most famous for his "clever" pop ditties in the electronic 1980s, he went on to write music for ringtones (including the famous Nokia one) and video games and became a renowned expert in the digital world, pioneering the development of VR (virtual reality).
Remarkably, this, his most famous choon was a flop over here in the UK - but its success across the pond thanks to MTV had the unexpected effect of making telly's eccentric boffin Dr Magnus Pyke into a global "superstar"!
In the midst of all his high-minded scientific stuff, however, out of the blue back in 2011, Mr Dolby came back with a real oddity. As I said at the time: "I don't usually like anything that resembles Country'n'Western (except Dolly Parton, in very small doses) but how can you resist a song called Here Come The Toadlickers with a video featuring drug-addict puppets having sex? I can't..."
Many happy returns, Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson, 14th October 1958)
