Marty Wilde made history when he had a hit with his self-penned song 'Bad Boy'. It was quite unusual for Rock 'n' Rollers to...

In 1974 the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, called  Melodifestivalen , had ten competitors. One of them was Lars...

Joe Jackson released the album  I'm the man  in October 1979, just nine months after his first album  Look sharp! . On his website, he e...

I was glad to buy a Japanese single of Boney M's ' Rasputin ' a little over six years ago, because of the radically different sl...

The recording sessions for 'Summer night city' began in early 1978. The new recording studio, Polar Music, had opened in May 1978, b...

'Dancing queen' was released in 1976 with a photograph of the members of Abba wearing hats. The photograph was used in most territor...

Although 'Does your mother know' was one of Abba's big hits, I never really connected with the song. As a result, I only had one...

I have a few different versions of this single, all of them bought at the same place in 2019. But this French version approaches the design ...

Dana was the sweet innocent Irish singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 with ' All kinds of everything '. In 1977 she r...

How do you translate a song called 'Pomme, pomme, pomme' into German? German producer and songwriter Fred Wyrich came up with 'K...

In 1972 Mary Roos represented Germany during the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Nur die Liebe lässt uns leben'. She also recorded the...

Rumour has it that Abba's old hit 'Fernando' is getting a resurgance because of the appearance of the song in the latest series ...

The very definition of a novelty single is when a badly sung song is based on a popular melody. And this single is a good example of that. E...

It's time for another one of those delicious Amiga Quartett EP's, this time featuring Hot Chocolate, the successful band fronted by ...

After about a decade of people sort of resenting Abba (God knows why) the Swedish band had their revenge when the compilation album  Abba Go...

For the longest time I have wanted to buy a few Japanese singles of winning Eurovision songs. A few of the most famous ones have become very...

One of the most revered Dutch Eurovision entries ever is Heddy Lester's ' De mallemolen ', in my humble opinion of course.  That...

When I saw this sleeve of 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!', I instantly knew there was something different about it, but I couldn't really...

If the photograph on this sleeve looks familiar, it's because it also appeared on this Spanish sleeve of 'Honey, Honey' . But th...

While I bought the Spanish single of 'Fernando' I also found the Italian version. And again, the sleeve came with a different desig...