I wrote about the Communards' 'You are my world' before (although Blogger seems to have deleted that post again in their random ...

The British funk band Kokomo formed in the Seventies. They released their debut album 'Kokomo' in 1975. The second album 'Rise ...

'The Ballroom Blitz' was written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. It was released as a single in 1973, where it reached number 1 in ...

'Belfast' was originally written by Drafi Deutscher for Marcia Barrett while she was still performing as a solo artist in the early ...

'I'm your man' was released in November 1985 after Wham!'s world tour, followed by a period of rest. The last people had see...

'Baby I love your way' was written and performed by Peter Frampton and originally featured on his 1975 album 'Frampton'. A l...

The third and last single from Human League's 1984 album 'Hysteria' was the melancholy 'Louise'. Writer of the song and ...

After the breakup of the Dutch girl group Doris D. & the Pins got ugly, even to the point of lawsuits, the four girls backing lead singe...

Fiction Factory are best known for their Eighties classic ' (Feels like) Heaven '. I was surprised to find out that I only have the ...

I'm probably going to irritate my friend Puck with this entry, so here goes... I think Duffy is a good singles artist. She's got int...

Curiosity killed the cat was formed in 1984 by Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, Julian Godfrey Brookhouse, Nick Thorpe and Migi Drummond. Their first...

I have to admit, I didn't know this track but I assumed this would be instrumental synthpop when I saw the sleeve. I was not wrong. Spac...

The single ' Churches ' featured 'They all run after the carving knife' on the B-side. On this single, that track is the A-s...

Middle of the road had a top 5 hit in the UK in 1971 with 'Soley Soley'. The single did even better in the Netherlands, peaking at n...

'To die a virgin' was the second single to be released from The Divine Comedy's 2006 album 'Victory for the comic muse'....

A disco song about Russian history, now there's something that hadn't been tried before! Boney M recorded and released 'Rasputin...

Mary Hopkin represented the United Kingdom in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest singing 'Knock Knock, Who's There?'. Despite bein...

'Lithium' was the second single taken from Evanescence's second album 'The open door'. Peaking at number 32 in the UK an...

Not included on any of Madness's original studio albums, 'Driving in my car' was a single released in July 1982. From the video ...

Rika Zarai was born on February 19, 1938 in Jerusalem, Israel. She became famous in 1969 with this single, 'Alors je chante', a Fren...