'Cours après le temps' ('Run after time') was the Luxembourgish entry in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, performed in Fren...

Shortly after Stevie Wonder had a big hit with the slightly dodgy 'Ebony and ivory' together with Paul McCartney, he released 'R...

'Luka' was released as the second single from Suzanne Vega's second album 'Solitude standing' in early 1987. It remains ...

After Everything but the girl had a surprise hit with a remix of their song 'Missing' by Todd Terry and Tracey Thorn had a hit with ...

Nicole & Hugo's 'Baby baby' could be the biggest surprise of the day for me. When I bought the single yesterday, I had a viv...

'Upside down' was written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (of the band Chic) with Aretha Franklin in mind to record. When Frankl...

I bought the single ' Doot doot ' by Freur back in 1983 when it came out, but I was unaware that there was a clear vinyl/picture dis...

Six singles were taken from Vanessa Paradis' debut album 'M&J', and 'Coupe coupe', released in December 1988, was th...

On May 21, 2010 I bought a copy of this single in the shop Da Capo in Utrecht. The sleeve mentioned Yves Mourousi, causing me to think the F...

'La source' was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, performed in French by Isabelle Aubret. This was Aubret's ...

'Blue eyes' was written by Elton John and Gary Osborne and released by Elton John in 1982 as the first single from the album 'Ju...

My first find at today's record fair in Utrecht was this single from the Dutch girl group Frizzle Sizzle. I thought I had them all, but ...

Of course I couldn't let the birthday of Kim Wilde go by without writing about one of her discs. So I thought I'd dig out a very rar...

You can't fault a catchy tune, even if the lyric reads ' Do you like my style / Yeah that's sexy, sexy, sexy '. It's one...

'Killer' was originally a hit for Adamski, but even on that version, Seal, who was then unknown in his own right, performed vocals o...

These are exciting times for Kate Bush fans. Earlier this year, she released 'Director's cut', a collection of re-recorded, and ...

Only two years after buying the 7" single , I bought the 12" single of 'One night in Bangkok', the hit single from the mus...

Climie Fisher had their first hit with 'Love changes (everything)' in September 1987, although it only made number 67 in the UK sing...

The Icicle Works' frontman Ian McNabb sounds suspiciously like David Bowie in this track, 'Love is a wonderful colour'. Their fi...

Back in the Nineties, there was a record fair in Leiden every six months. During that record fair, they used to always play a remix of David...