Wednesday 4 December 2019
Passion - Rod Stewart
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It's been over ten years since I last bought a Rod Stewart single, the classic pop song ' Baby Jane '. In the mean time Rod ha...
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Wherever I lay my hat - Paul Young
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'Wherever I lay my hat (that's my home)' is a song written by Marvin Gaye, Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, and first reco...
Love is love - Culture Club
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I bought a French copy of the single ' Love is love ' by Culture Club ten years ago. I still knew that, so there was no reason to ...
Tuesday 3 December 2019
New Europeans - Ultravox
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I don't think I am unique when I list Ultravox's album 'Vienna' among my favourites of all time, but it is, and it has bee...
Confide in me - Kylie Minogue
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During some time in the Nineties, Kylie Minogue had a hard time finding success. She was actually praised by 'serious' critics for...
When the night comes - Björn Skifs
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Björn Skifs was featured on this blog five years ago when I bought Fångad i en dröm , the song he performed at the Eurovision Song Contest...
Saturday 30 November 2019
Empire State Human - Human League
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Although the Human League is known as an "Eighties band" by most people, their career actually started in 1978 with Being boiled...
Tvoj dječak je tužan - Krunoslav Slabinac
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Krunoslav "Kićo" Slabinac was born on March 28, 1944 in Osijek, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). During the 1960s Slabinac was a member...
Saturday 23 November 2019
Di dai, di dai dai - MFO
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Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner and Özkan Uğur represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest back when Turkey was still participating in th...
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Eloise - Arvingarna
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One of the best ever Swedish contributions to the Eurovision Song Contest in my opinion - and there have been many - is 1993's 'El...
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
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Kraftwerk singles are rather hard to find, so every time I manage to buy one for a reasonable price, I am quite pleased. 'Trans Europe...
A chacun sa chanson - Line et Willy
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Line Van Menen and Claude Boillod called themselves Line et Willy and became famous after winning the Palmarès des Chansons with 'Le v...
Maya - Errol Brown
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Having been a member of the legendary band Hot Chocolate, Errol Brown went solo in the mid-Eighties, and somehow I can't help but wish...
Gold - Spandau Ballet
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I only bought 'Gold' in 1994, but evidently I should have waited 25 years longer because only now did I find a copy of the limited...
Careless whisper - Wham! featuring George Michael
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Everybody knows ' Careless whisper ' as George Michael's first solo single, and I bought it 35 years ago when it came out. Whe...
Disco Duck - Rick Dees
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Rick Dees was working as a DJ on the Memphis AM radio station WMPS when he heard a guy doing a duck voice while he was working out at his ...
Go west - Village People
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Continuing on the theme of Japanese singles of songs that I already own, this is another copy of the single ' Go west ', a single ...
Bette Davis eyes - Kim Carnes
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Back in 2004, I bought a copy of ' Bette Davis eyes ', a great hit from 1981. And more recently, I bought an Italian promo featuri...
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Rasputin - Boney M
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I've had a copy of Boney M's ' Rasputin ' for ten years already, so I guess that means that this single is superfluous in ...
Make love whenever you can - Arabesque
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The German trio Arabesque was very successful in the far east, and this Japanese single just underlines that fact. Their advice for the Ja...
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