Let's make this birthday one to remember.

87 years old (Born on November 09, 1937)

Happy Birthday, Roger McGough! Another trip around the sun and your rhymes still set hearts racing, noses lighting up brighter than Mr Noselighter himself. From enchanting us with playful poetry in "Unlucky for Some" to illuminating life's charming peculiarities through magic in "Everyday Eclipses," you're truly timeless—proving poets don't grow older; their verses just get bolder.

Your wit sparkles on stages as brightly today as it did during the golden Liverpool Poets era of The Mersey Sound. So here's wishing you abundant laughter, countless standing ovations—and perhaps fewer everyday eclipses (unless employed poetically!). Cheers to another poetic year!