'Straight lines' was actually New Musik's debut single, released in October 1979. It led to their first TV performance on the BB...

Feargal Sharkey was born on August 13, 1958 in Derry, Northern Ireland. In 1976 he was co-founder of the pop group the Undertones. Then in 1...

Long before Des'ree started releasing songs with choruses like ' Life / oh life / oh life / oh life ', she actually started out ...

The German band Wind represented Germany during the 1985 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Für alle' ('For e...

Amy Grant's 1988 album 'Lead Me On' contained many songs that were about Christianity and love relationships, but some interpret...

I feel a bit like an Alzheimer patient in reverse: I remember things I wrote but Blogger keeps taking them away. Like the entry about Paolo ...

In November 1993, Guns n' Roses released a collection of punk and glam rock covers entitled 'The Spaghetti Incident?'. The album...

Betsy Cook released 'How can I believe?' as the second single off her album 'The girl who ate herself'. (The first single wa...

If you should define the German group Kraftwerk with one song, this would be the one. They are known for their electronic, mechanical-soundi...

In early 1993, director of the movie 'Philadelphia', Jonathan Demme, asked Bruce Springsteen to write a song for the in-progress fil...

'Cardiac arrest' was taken from Madness's third album '7' (1981). It spent 10 weeks in UK Singles chart, peaking at numb...

My friend Puck said that I should include more good songs. 'Define good songs', I said. He replied: 'songs that I know'. Wel...

In a previous entry, I already wrote about 'Der Kommissar' by After the fire , but this is the original version - and it can't b...

Kim, Debbie, Joni and Kathy Sledge formed Sister Sledge in 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The four sisters (sister number five, Carol, ...

Siouxie and the Banshees recorded 'Face to face' for the soundtrack of the movie 'Batman Returns'. Thanks to Danny Elfman...

Rock ballads are quite an interesting phenomenon. What drives these tough looking men, who usually shake their heads to screaming guitar sol...

Pussycat was a Dutch band formed in the Seventies by the sisters Toni, Marianne and Betty Kowalczyk. With muicians Lou Wille (Toni's hus...

Space Monkey was a British pop group from the mid-1980s led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Paul Goodchild. They released 'Can't...

Not to be confused with one of Kylie Minogue's best songs of her career, this is the song with which Sonia represented the UK in the 199...

In the mid-Eighties, synthesizers were getting increasingly popular as a means to make movie soundtracks. Jan Hammer made a living making so...