With the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest taking place tomorrow, there's a lot of speculation about Abba. Will they appe...

It's not exactly clear to me for whom Marty Wilde wrote 'The Spirit of Joe Hill', but it seems that Laurie Dryden was the only ...

Michèle Torr represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with ' Une petite Française '. The song reached fourth place ...

Another Hot Chocolate single I didn't already have is 1974's 'Changing world'. In this case, it's the Belgian pressing w...

With all the Hot Chocolate singles already in my collection, it's always a bit of a surprise when one turns up that I don't already ...

It doesn't happen very often that two versions of a single appear with the same seller, especially when you're after both versions. ...

The Milestones represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with ' Falter im Wind '. It remains one of the most underr...

Back in 1977 Ilanit represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time. She'd been the country's first representa...

Having bought ' Pump pump ' and ' Schon wieder macht mein Herz bump bump ', obviously I was curious whether I could get hold...

Ex-Bread singer David Gates thought he would make it on his own and released a few albums on his own, before reuniting with his old band. Hi...

The Hearts of Soul represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 with ' Waterman ', and continued to release si...

It's always great to find a Hot Chocolate single. They released a lot of them in the Seventies, driven by music mogul Mickie Most and hi...

A year before the Gibson Brothers had a hit with ' Que sera mi vida ', they had a hit with a similarly Latin America-oriented single...

'Heroes' is undoubtedly one of the highlights of David Bowie's genre, perhaps bridging the gap between lovers of 'Seventies ...

Although Jahn Teigen wasn't exactly successful with his ' Mil etter mil ' at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978, he did record ...

' Småting' is a Norwegian pop song that won the Melodi Grand Prix 1972, and was Norway's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest th...

After Heart's very successful debut album 'Dreamboat Annie', they had a falling out with their label Mushroom over an advert for...

I've complained about Record Store Day on this blog before: it's too expensive, too limited and too attractive for scalpers. That...

'You're all I need to get by' was written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson. It was originally recorded by Marvin Gaye a...

It's almost eight years ago that I found a copy of ' Jag är en astronaut ' by Anne Mette Torp, the Swedish cover version of '...