Anders Frandsen was born ub Denmark on December 8, 1960. Although not a trained actor, he made his stage debut during the Eighties in theatr...

Nothing beats a good instrumental track from time to time. This 'golden oldie' appeared as background music in a commercial on a loc...

I'd just discovered Amy Grant's albums 'Lead me on' and 'Heart in motion' when she started to release singles from h...

I wouldn't be surprised if this song was responsible for the war in Yugoslavia that would break out a couple of years later. It must ran...

In 1993, it became increasingly difficult to find 7" vinyl singles of songs that were released as a single. More often than not, I coul...

This was the last single released by the Communards before Richard Coles and Jimmy Somerville split up. The upbeat song comes with a serious...

Cheap Trick made a name for themselves with the big hit 'I want you to want me'. I thought it was a very irritating song, and it had...

Adam Ant was one of the big names of the Eighties. That statement alone says a lot about how he was perceived by the general public circa 19...

I'm not the world's biggest Belinda Carlisle fan, but I do have a few singles by her. And this is one of them: a rather attractive l...

The Dutch band Kayak formed in 1972. Their early single ' Mammoth ' featured on this blog a couple of months ago. 'Want you to b...

The Swedish brothers Per, Richard and Louis Herrey were the first act to perform on stage in Luxemburg during the 1984 Eurovision Song Conte...

Nick Kamen was born as Ivor Neville Kamen on April 15, 1962 in Harlow, Essex, England. He was first brought to the public's attention in...

Tanita Tikaram was born in Münster, Germany on August 12, 1969 as the daughter of Fatimah Rohani of Malaysian descent and Indo-Fijian Britis...

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the musical Evita in 1976. The best known song from that musical is of course 'Don't cry for ...

Fay Lovski was born as Fay Luyendijk in Leiden on September 11, 1955. Her music career started in 1980 with the album 'Sound on sound...

Hard to believe, but it's now 32 years ago that a French-language song won the Eurovision Song Contest. Amina came close in 1991, but it...

Level 42 was founded in 1979 by Mark King, Mike Lindup, Rowland Gould and Phil Gould. 'Hot water' was a single taken from their fift...

As Genesis had been recording and touring constantly in 1977 and 1978, it was decided by the members Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Ruth...

Kenny Young is an American songwriter who has been active as writer, artist and producer since 1963. In 1988, he was the founder member of t...

The European release of ' Hey little girl ' was different from the UK one. At least, that's what I concluded after I found this ...