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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Micha Marah participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with the song 'Hey nana'. She never recorded the song, until last ye...

Alan Sorrenti represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with ' Non so che darei '. The song had a certain hit potenti...

Quite in contrast with the frankly dull sleeve of the Fine Young Cannibals' single ' Suspicious minds ', this picture disc actua...

While Michael Jackson was enjoying the biggest success of his career after leaving The Jacksons, the other brothers soldiered on while endur...

I consider Pink Floyd's The Wall the best album the band made, perhaps contrary to most people who always cite The dark side of the moo...

'Love is the drug' was originally recorded by Roxy Music and released in September 1975. Grace Jones recorded the song for her fourt...

'I feel free' was originally recorded by the British rock band Cream. The lyrics were written by Pete Brown, with the music by Jack ...

Originally this picture disc came in a transparent sleeve with a sticker, but the sticker is gone and now all I have is the picture disc. It...

A long time ago I discovered that the only album by Strawberry Switchblade - featuring the singles ' Since yesterday ', ' Let he...

Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson (born 26 August 1969) is an Icelandic singer. He has been part of the local and international music scene since he ...