Kids from Fame

Personnel: Tom Saviano (saxophone).The first Kids from Fame album was an absolute sensation in 1982 spending a total of 12 weeks at number one and ending the year as the second best-seller of the year (behind Barbra Streisand's Love Songs). Created by Christopher Gore, the weekly TV series based on the Alan Parker film followed the exploits and adventures of the students and teachers at the New York High School of Performing Arts. Being an hour-long weekly series as opposed to a one- of two-hour film, there was a lot more scope to develop the characters and delve into their personal lives and fans, particularly in the U.K., grew to associate and love the individual characters, all of whom were flawed in some way, but all of whom had the same aspirations of millions of ordinary people: to become famous. Each week there was an excuse for the troupe to break into a song (and dance) routine, sometimes organized but sometimes totally spontaneous and usually bringing tears to the eyes of eit