The band Poogy was named after the nickname of its drummer. They participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with a song called ...

One of the singles I've been after for a couple of years now is 'Live and let die', the theme song of the 1973 James Bond film o...

Band guitarist Robby Krieger wrote 'Love her madly' during the period of Jim Morrison's trial in September 1970. He composed the...

Pink Floyd became one of the most famous bands in the world because of the album Dark side of the moon , released in 1973. After this, they ...

Having hunted Abba singles throughout this year, I thought I'd seen most of them by now, but then I found myself bumping into this rarit...

'Sevince' ('When I'm in love') was the Turkish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 in Paris, performed by Nilüfer ...

After Vicky Leandros won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with 'Après toi', several artists recorded cover versions of that song....

In 1975 it was Ann Christy's turn to represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest. She did this with the song ' Gelukkig zijn ...

Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 with ' Save your kisses for me '. Two guys and two girls was a success fo...

Betty Missiego represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with ' Su canción '. It was a big success: the song finished...

The Swedish supergroup Abba is back on this blog, with a Japanese single no less. This is an interesting one, because it couples 'S.O.S...

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling 1970 eponymous novel....

Back in 2014 I bought ' Sing sang song ', the Eurovision entry by the Les Humphries Singers from 1976. That was the original German ...

The impact of the Eurovision Song Contest was much bigger, perhaps, when it was much younger. Winning songs were often covered by many artis...

The German duo Belle Schnetzler and Horst Hornung released one single in 1971, a cover version of 'In this world we live in', a song...

During the Eighties, I listened to the radio and every now and then this song would come up. Certainly being at the age of having to go to s...

When Kate Bush released the On Stage EP , promotional singles were made for 'Them Heavy People', which was the lead track of the EP....

I knew 'Clean clean' as a song by the Buggles, but I wasn't aware that it was a cover version of a song originally recorded by B...

Nobody knows who Lynn Thomas and Paul Clark were, but they recorded a cover version of ' Rock bottom ', the song with which Lynsey d...

Like I wrote recently , the French do things differently, and that applies to this release of Abba's 'Fernando' as well. The Dut...