Alan Sorrenti represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with the song ' Non so che darei '. Due to the success of his...

All about Eve were promoted heavily by their record company when their debut album looked like it was going to be a big success. They didn...

It's been five years since I last bought a Spandau Ballet single, and I thought I had them all. But then I saw this picture disc while I...

In the Eighties, Heart went through a kind of metamorphosis, after the record company took the band aside and said they needed to change the...

Back in 1986, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released this double single of 'We love you'. The package contained the original sin...

Kate Bush  is a mini-LP released in the USA and Canada in 1983. With this release the record company EMI America hoped to raise the profile ...

The second single taken from Kim Wilde's third album  Catch as Catch Can  was apparently the first and only single for her in Japan. ...

Last year I caught up with my collection of All About Eve 12" singles on this blog, but it seems I forgot one of them. This limited edi...

Although the Japanese record company decided to release ' Take me tonight ', flipping the A-side 'View from a bridge' with t...

Harry Thumann was a German electronic music composer and sound engineer. He was quick to adapt to new technologies and started working with ...

Although I would certainly understand it if people called ' Ik hou van jou ' a bit of a twee song, the melody of it is undeniably be...

In 2013 Virgin Records celebrated its  40th anniversary. On that occasion they released a series of picture disc 7" singles of some int...

This limited edition package comes all the way from Australia, where this one was released back in 1986. And an attractive package it is too...

The recent release of a box set of Nik Kershaw's MCA years includes, I think, all of the material he recorded and released during the Ei...

Although some of his releases were a bit weird, Prince was at the height of his success during the Eighties. The albums kept coming and they...

To be honest, I wasn't a fan when '(Sexual) Healing' first came out. I thought the song was a little boring. I grew to like it a...

The movie E.T. came with a theme that was recorded by various artists, due to the sheer popularity of that movie. The Dutch Future World Orc...

In 1980 Lipps Inc. released ' Funkytown ', a single that was a big hit in discotheques and charts worldwide. Quite why the Australia...

Michael Holm recorded the 'Deutsche Originalversion' of 'El Lute', a song originally recorded by Boney M . Many German artis...

Back in 1988, I bought a single of ' The blood that moves the body ', not knowing that there was a much more interesting release in ...