Gershon Kingsley composed 'Popcorn' as an instrumental tune. Still, there are a few vocal versions of this track, and the first one ...

I am pretty sure that I would never have bought this 12" single if I hadn't had the double lp The best of the Top 40 of the year i...

Before I bought this record, I left it standing in the shop for months and months. I didn't think it would contain longer versions of th...

The radio station I listened to in the first half of the 1980's was very much oriented towards the UK charts. Even if songs didn't m...

The British sisters Mel and Kim Appleby, born to English and Jamaican parents, were noticed while they were dancing in a nightclub in Londo...

Time can be cruel to pop songs. Some songs sound dated only a couple of years after they are released, others are truly timeless. I'd ha...

'Chequered love' was Kim Wilde's second single and it was another big success. In the Netherlands, it did even better than Kim...

Cock Robin hit the Dutch singles chart in early 1986 with a bang: their first hit, 'The promise you made', reached no. 1 within a fe...

Maarten Peters first rose to prominence in the Dutch music scene as the guitarist of the Frank Boeijen Groep. He took the place of original ...

The trip to Esbjerg and the visit to the local record shop there which I mentioned earlier today was pleasing in many ways. For instance, I...

The assignment: buy as many singles as you can for 1 pound. The place: a warehouse, either Woolworth or some similar shop. The time: a summe...

Five Star is one of those pop groups that churn out happy tunes like there's no tomorrow, sell millions of records and then disappear in...

I was very late discovering Altered Images. I did buy 'Don't talk to me about love' somewhere in the eighties, but I never reali...

I knew a girl once who was always talking. She talked so much that my ears, and those of our mutual friends, started to bleed. I had to do s...

The Police's 'Every breath you take' is one of the world's best known songs. It was released in 1983 and reached no. 1 in th...

I don't remember why I bought 'No more talk' by Dubstar on cd-single (well, yes, I do buy those things too sometimes) in 1997. I...

When I was a child, Abba was probably the most popular band in the world. I was always listening to them, whether it was on the records of m...

In the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, anything can happen. Every country is always trying to win, but there are many opinions about w...

In the 1980's, record companies started releasing double vinyl singles as a way to attract buyers. The idea of 'buy one, get one fre...

After buying Kids in America , I'd definitely become interested in owning more Kim Wilde singles. I didn't have a very great budget,...