Sometimes when you're in a record shop, going through the racks, you get this 'what's this?'-experience. Finding this 12...

After the split of Bow wow wow was announced, RCA still released another single from their album 'When the going gets tough the tough ge...

I have to admit that I missed the release of 'Ocean blue' when it happened and only found out about it some time after the fact. I b...

A strong melody is what always appeals to me most. I buy a lot of pop singles because they often have this, but sometimes a more (soft)rock-...

Originally released in 1979, ' Cars ' was remixed and re-released in 1987. The ''E' Reg Model' version featured more...

In 1987, the family holiday destination was London. As soon as the opportunity presented itself, my sister and I were off to the nearest rec...

When our grandparents went on holiday to England, my sister and I, 16 and 10 years old respectively, asked them for a souvenir in the guise ...

Eros Ramazzotti was born in Rome on October 28, 1963 and made his breakthrough winning the San Remo festival in 1984. International fame in ...

I discovered Midge Ure's second solo album 'Answers to nothing' while on holiday in pre-war Yugoslavia. I owned a tape walkman a...

'Every kinda people' was recorded in 1978 by Robert Palmer on his album 'Double Fun'. With its blend of Caribbean steel pan,...

Taylor Dayne was born as Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. Signed to Arista Records in 1987, she hit th...

'Working with fire and steel' was taken from China Crisis's second album of the same name. It was the second single from that al...

'(No more) Fear of flying' is taken from the album of the same name, which was Gary Brooker's debut solo album. Unlike ' The...

George Michael released his first solo single while he was still in Wham! The fact that 'Careless whisper' became number one hit, ma...

The story of the song ' Uncertain smile ' is similar to the one of this song. When the Norwegian group A-ha signed to WEA records in...

When The The signed to CBS Records in 1982, their first single on that label was a version of 'Uncertain smile'. This track would ap...

One of the greatest lines in pop music is ' She's crazy like a fool / What about it Daddy Cool? '. It was presented to the world...

When I was in highschool, I had a classmate who was wild about Siouxie and the Banshees. I think he owned all of their records. I got to kno...

After having had hits with '99 Luftballons', 'Nur geträumt' and 'Leuchtturm' in the Netherlands, '? (Fragezeiche...

B.A. Robertson was born on September 12, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. He released his debut album in 1973, but he would only find his first ch...