This fourth and final single from The The's recent album Ensoulment was a bit of a surprise, as I bought a bundled trio of singles just ...

The Cure finally returned with a new album last month, and it is better than its predecessors - at least, that's what I think. The first...

With Michael Jackson being at the top of his game in the Eighties, his former record company Motown were all too eager to make some money of...

The band Poogy was named after the nickname of its drummer. They participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with a song called ...

Kim Wilde's latest offering is the second single from her forthcoming album Closer , due out at the end of January. Based on the previou...

This is a classic song and the single is very hard to find. I can't remember when I first heard the song, and I think it didn't even...

The Cure have finally released a new album, and it made me curious about their output all over again. Then I started to realise that I don...

Like the title indicates, this single is indeed strange. In Germany, the B-side ' Felicidad ' was released as a single, and it was q...

As popular as Nena was in Germany during the first half of the Eighties, things became a lot quieter when the year 1984 arrived. Most of the...

One of the singles I've been after for a couple of years now is 'Live and let die', the theme song of the 1973 James Bond film o...

Band guitarist Robby Krieger wrote 'Love her madly' during the period of Jim Morrison's trial in September 1970. He composed the...

Pink Floyd became one of the most famous bands in the world because of the album Dark side of the moon , released in 1973. After this, they ...

Around the time of John Lennon's death, the Kinks released a live version of their song 'Lola'. I remember this quite vividly, b...

It has become common practice for me, when I buy singles online, to search for 'Ulvaeus', because you never know when you might pick...

For a few years I have been checking out this double 7" single package of the Beatles called 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Most peopl...

Dutch music is a strange beast. These days there aren't that many artists from the Netherlands that I enjoy, but back in the Eighties th...

Having hunted Abba singles throughout this year, I thought I'd seen most of them by now, but then I found myself bumping into this rarit...

Bucks Fizz had a succesful decade - the Eighties - but by the end of that decade things were starting to unravel. 'Heart of stone' w...

I wouldn't exactly qualify this single as one of Stevie Wonder's best songs, but even an average Stevie Wonder song beats most other...

Most people will be familiar with 'Je t'aime... moi non plus', the sensual single by Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin. This si...

Thompson Twins had reached the peak of their career in the mid-Eighties, but things weren't so successful when the decade drew to an end...

Last month my brother passed away and it was one of those things you expect to happen, except you just don't know when exactly. He wasn...

Although the Human League were important players in the early Eighties synthpop movement, their 12" single output was less than impress...