It's funny how a living and changing collection like mine stays quite staticly online. I have recently done away with all of my Madness...

The Pet Shop Boys have been around for forty years now and they have been able to create great music consistently. The early beginnings were...

I had the good fortune of finding two picture disc 7" singles of Ultravox on one day, and because they both looked so good I simply had...

I had the pleasure of seeing Ultravox live at Paradiso during the last tour they ever did - and with the recent passing of Chris Cross I thi...

25 years ago I bought the single ' Never / These dreams ' by Heart, a compilation of two songs from their self-titled album in 1985,...

Sheena Easton had a very decent career during the Eighties, with a good selection of hits and quality pop songs. It has caused me to buy a s...

I bought 'Children, Kinder, enfants' in 2009, a single by an international group of singers. I bought it a few times after that, bec...

'Do or die' was the first and in most parts of the world the only single release from Jones' Fame , her second disco album. On F...

One of my weaknesses is I can't resist coloured vinyl. There was a time in Germany where they released red vinyl singles as limited edit...

They were called transvestites in those days: men who dressed as women. In the case of Divine, you had a rather voloptuous man, Harris Glenn...

The racial mix within Savage Progress was never fully stressed in the media, but had a definite effect on their music: Glynnis Thomas was bo...

'Lead me to the water' was Gary Brooker's second solo album, released in 1982. The title track was released as a single, but lik...

Although I already own a copy of ' Walk like an Egyptian ' on 7", that one is a re-release and this is the original one. In fac...

Back in August 1987, a TV special was broadcast on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Various artists, incl...

Probably for the last time I can please this blog's reader and avid Risqué-fan Jos with a record by the Dutch girl group Risqué. This re...

When you buy a record from the other end of the world - in this case, Canada - it would be stupid not to buy more than one record. And so I ...

Such is the shake-up of my record collection that all of the Madness singles except ' Driving in my car ' have been binned. Most of ...

'I'm a wonderful thing baby' appears on the B-side of this single of 'Stool pigeon' , but it was also released as a sing...

One of Chris Rea's lesser known singles is 'Hey you', taken from his fifth studio album Water sign , which yielded the hit singl...

As I was going through my singles collection it dawned on me that I had a few Eddy Grant singles in red vinyl. I was intrigued and I started...