Debbie Gibson at 40

As I mentioned a couple months ago, Debbie Gibson was a significant part of the late 1980s pop music experience of a lot of Generation Xers like me.  It doesn’t seem so long ago that the then-17-year-old Gibson was reaching the top 5 with her first four singles.  Yet, today, Debbie (who now goes by Deborah) Gibson, turns 40 years old.  Still performing, as her official Web site notes, Gibson will end a run in a Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy at MGM Foxwoods in Connecticut tomorrow.