I bought a single of ' Sweet memory ' in 2023, but that one was a German release of the song, with ' Sign of the times ' on ...

Back in 2010 I bought the single ' Manhattan ' by G'Race. It's the kind of hit single that sticks in your ear once you'v...

The unique voice of Feargal Sharkey became a bit of a fixture in the mid-Eighties when he celebrated his biggest successes with ' You li...

Ray Manzarek became famous as one quarter of the famous band The Doors, playing those keyboards like a madman. After lead singer Jim Morriso...

The Dutch group Spargo made some catchy songs in the early Eighties, although some were embarrassing ('Hip hap hop' anyone?). Fortun...

The Gibson Brothers were very successful at the height of the disco craze with songs like 'Non stop dance', 'Cuba' and '...

Grace Jones followed up her monumental album  Slave to the rhythm  (1985) with the rather less engaging  Inside Story  (1986), which spawned...

You're probably familiar with Carola's 1983 Eurovision entry, ' Främling ' or the English version ' Love isn't love ...

Having bought the yellow , pink and blue vinyl editions of 'Tell me tomorrow' by Princess recently, all I needed to find what the ...

The German version of 'Keeping the dream alive' was recorded by Münchener Freiheit in cooperation with the Jackson Singers and the L...

Although  Up  was one of the lesser albums by ABC, they still managed to release two marginally interesting singles off it. The first one wa...

I've bought a few 12" singles by Princess recently, and those remixes never let me down. And so, when I saw this one for just one e...

I'm not particularly a fan of Tina Turner, but I bought a few B.E.F. singles before (' Anyone who had a heart ' and ' I don...

The label BR Music specialized in releasing singles with hits from earlier decades. In 1986 they released this Abba single - a few years bef...

'Love is reason' was the first single to be released from A-ha's debut album  Hunting high and low  in april 1985. In 1984 they ...

I bought a copy of Sheena Easton's ' 101 ' a long time ago, but that was before I knew that there was also a UK edition with a p...

In the Eighties, it wasn't uncommon for record companies in the UK to release new singles by an artist bundled with the previous hit sin...

'She drives me crazy' is probably the best known track by the Fine Young Cannibals. It was a huge hit back in 1988 and you can still...

'This is love' sounds like an strangely conventional title for a Gary Numan song, but it was really a single released by him in 1986...

When I saw this single at some dealer's stand, I didn't think I had it. Although I have a pretty complete collection of Bucks Fizz s...