Fame! remember the name?

Ah yeah, remember the days of Leeroy and Coco? The dancing, the singing, the theatrics, the ‘will they or wont they get into each others leotards and share leg warmers?’ When the original ‘Fame’ movie and series first hit our screens (personally I caught the re-runs many years later…) it sent a quake through the lives of teens worldwide, wow imagine going to that school? Hot lunch-time jams on the canteen tables and dancing over taxi-roofs in a choreographed dance home…It all sent a certain blogger in search of fluoro gym wear in order to wear whilst attempting to run up walls…I kid you not!

So for those who don’t remember this TV show, try and try again to get your mitts on the retro originals for a good ol laugh and an eyeful of those classic outfits before venturing out to the latest blockbuster. It follows students at New York’s High School for the Performing Arts, which teaches mega-talented students normal lessons alongside performing arts classes while following the drama of their daily lives – and that of the teachers too.

The bonus for us viewers way back was that a show about talented students guaranteed us many song and dance numbers, the odd bit of comedy and interspersed with a dose of angst this really was a remedy for tv success.

Of course the new movie is right up to date, trendier rags guaranteed, but we couldn’t help getting nostalgic about the original threads: