Simply Red rose to prominence with this beautiful ballad in 1985. 'Holding back the years' would turn out to be a classic. Taken fro...

Tori Amos released 'From the choirgirl hotel' in 1998. It was one of her last great albums - subsequent efforts became ever less eng...

After leaving the girl group Arabesque, Sandra Ann Lauer teamed up with Michael Cretu. Their first recording was a German version of Alphavi...

'Da fliegt mir doch das Blech weg' has become one of my favourite quotes in German, and it's down to this record. I own the sing...

This 12" single of Strawberry Switchblade's biggest hit 'Since yesterday' features three tracks - and no extended version o...

The spacey track '1000 years from today' was robbed of its shimmering beauty and transformed into a dancefloor stomper on this promo...

Janet Jackson released 'All for you', the title track of her 2001 album, as the second single from that album. As far as I know ther...

The Beloved released 'Your love takes me higher' in 1989, before they became famous with similar dancepop tracks. This American 12...

With Kim Wilde releasing an album of covers on August 27, it's inevitable that I went searching for the original versions of the songs f...

'Rock to the rhythm of love' was featured on this blog very recently , but yet again I've bought a 12" single of this track...

' I promise, I'll be worth the wait ', said Janet Jackson back in 1986 when 'Let's wait awhile' hit the airwaves. We...

The Beloved's 'Sweet harmony' was a big hit in 1992, and since the track was quite danceable it was no surprise that there were ...

Listening to the 12" single of Janet Jackson's 'Control', the title track of her 1986 album, you can't help but notice ...

'Rock to the rhythm of love' was a track on the Beloved's 1993 album 'Conscience'. Whereas other singles were released o...

Following the original 12" single of 'Nasty', A&M records released the 'Cool summer mix' of 'Nasty'. The re...

'Nasty' was released as the second single from Janet Jackson's 1986 album 'Control'. There were actually two 12" si...

The beautiful folk-inspired track 'Bright new morning' was lifted from the Adventures' third album 'Trading secrets with the...

'Diamonds', a single from Chris Rea's 1979 album 'Deltics', sounded a bit crude, not at all like the polished songs he w...

Released in February 1980, 'Kool in the kaftan' became B.A. Robertson's third chart hit in the UK. The single reached number 17 ...

The uplifting dance music from The Beloved went mainstream when they had a hit with 'Sweet harmony'. Shortly thereafter, they went b...