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...

Bill Withers was inspired to write 'Ain't no sunshine' after watching the 1962 movie Days of Wine and Roses . He explained, in r...

I wasn't really planning on spending a lot of money on a single called 'Do the Bartman', despite the fact that I have an impre...

If you look at the list of singles by Michael Jackson on this blog, it's hard to believe that I haven't got them all already. But ...

Why not start the new year with two music legends? I received this 12" single just before the turn of the year, after a month of wait...

No, this is not the big - and sometimes very irritating - hit single by Pharrell Williams, but a song recorded in 1973 by Michael Jackson ...

The second half of the Eighties was littered with remixes of old tracks. Somehow record companies thought it was a cheap way to make profits...

It's a strange combination, the Bee Gees and Michael Jackson, but they both appear on this track, and it's a track by Diana Ross! Or...

Now that his doctor/quack has been declared guilty of making him 'gone too soon', Michael Jackson can finally rest in relative peace...

When Michael Jackson released a follow-up to his hugely successful 'Thriller' album in 1987, it was nothing less than a sensation. T...

The single 'Centipede' by Rebbie Jackson was always quite an elusive disc for me. I saw the music video in 1984 and have been search...

At the height of his fame, in 1984, Michael Jackson still had time to help his siblings with their career. Rebbie Jackson was his eldest sis...

Donna Summer has been around for such a long time, that many of her singles are still wellknown. From her output in the Eighties, 'State...

After Michael Jackson's phenomenal success with 'Thriller', it seemed like all of his siblings wanted a piece of the pie as well...

'Ease on down the road' is one of the lesser known Michael Jackson hits. It was taken from the 1978 movie soundtrack 'The Wiz...

In 1978, the soundtrack album for the movie 'The Wiz' was released. Chiefly produced by Quincy Jones, the soundtrack features cast p...

Late last year, I started trying to complete my Michael Jackson singles collection. It started when I found the red vinyl collectors set of ...

'Stranger in Moscow' was the fifth and last single from Michael Jackson's album 'History'. While writing the song, Jacks...

Not content with one hit single, ' Farewell my summer love ', from their archive-plundering album of the same name, Motown released ...

I already wrote about ' Blood on the dancefloor ' on an earlier entry. I'd found a rare UK pressing of the single and I assumed ...