'Tubular bells' is Mike Oldfield's signature theme and he has released several versions around the theme of the thunderpipes, as...

'To love somebody' was originally recorded and released by the Bee Gees in 1967, back when they were still a quintet. The song was w...

'Son of a Preacher Man' was recorded by Dusty Springfield in September 1968 as a track on her legendary album 'Dusty in Memphis...

Janet Jackson's album 'Control' was a big success, and the way the album was 'milked' for singles was equal to her broth...

I always get a kick out of buying really old singles, and this one is almost 50 years old. Marty Wilde released 'Tomorrow's clown...

'Some kind of lover' was the fourth single taken from Jody Watley's self-titled debut solo album. It was a relative failure, rea...

'If it happens again' is one of my favourite tunes by UB40, and a lot of that has to do with the last few minutes of the track. So I...

'We were so turned on: A tribute to David Bowie' was released worldwide on September 6, 2010 as a charity for War Child UK. It is th...

Released in 1972, Ricky Wilde (yep, Kim's brother) was just eleven years old when he sang 'I am an astronaut'. The single was no...

'Verlieben verlieren' can be translated as 'loving and losing', which qualifies this song as a story everyone has gone throu...

A Taste of Honey was the name of an American recording act formed in 1971 by associates Perry Kibble and Donald Ray Johnson. In 1978 they ha...

One of many Münchener Freiheit singles I bought recently, 'Ich will dich nochmal' was taken from their 1989 album 'Purpurmond...

There's an air of calculation behind this single release by the Dutch band Pussycat. After a handful of top 10 hits their singles 'I...

'Guilty' is one of those classic albums that literally everybody owned in 1980. It featured two big hits: the title track, a duet wi...

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians released their 'difficult second album' in 1990. 'Ghost of a dog' was less accessible than...

'Oh Lori' was originally recorded by the Alessi brothers in the Seventies. This Dutch band recorded a cover version on their 1986 al...

The German band Münchener Freiheit released their third album 'Herzschlag einer Stadt' in 1984. The Neue Deutsche Welle, which had l...

Joe Leeway left Thompson Twins in 1986, leaving Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie to carry on making music as a duo for another seven years. The...

'Cherchez la femme' is a French phrase which literally means 'look for the woman'. When a man behaves out of character or in...

Bobby Farrell died last month, legendary dancer of Boney M, who also lipsynched so well to the words that were in actual fact sung by produc...