When Frida went solo in 1982, nobody suspected that it signalled the end of Abba, the band she'd been part of for the last ten years. A...

When you look at the sleeve of the 7" single of 'You are the one' and compare it with this one from the 12" single, you...

When the duo Groovenut decided to remix Kim Wilde's 'You came', little did they know that there were actually plans to re-record...

When the cd-single became the preferred format in the late Eighties, vinyl was quickly pronounced dead by the record companies, not realisin...

When Kate Bush finally released a new album in 1993, four years after the previous one, I was looking forward to it like never before. The w...

Nik Kershaw got through his first two albums okay, but when the 'difficult third album' came up, he was out of luck: although his mu...

As written before , there is a difference between the extended version of Tears for Fears' 1984 single 'Mothers talk' and the so...

Although the British band Private Lives never hit it big, they certainly had their chances since three different singles were taken from the...

Nobody covered Kim Wilde's 1981 hit, 'Cambodia'. Well, there were actually quite a few of them (including a Swedish death metal ...

Although I was only seven years old when this single was released, I can say that I've loved this song from the very beginning. I bought...

The last single by Mel & Kim was released when Mel was already receiving treatment for cancer, a battle she ultimately lost on January 1...

When I bought this 12" single there was no way to tell whether it contained an extended version of the lead track, so I just bought it....

Released some time before the album, 'Mothers talk' was actually the first single from Tears for Fears' second album 'Songs ...

'Leave in silence' is still one of my all time favourite Depeche Mode tracks, and this 12" single had a little to do with that....

For a long time, this 1986 re-recording of 'Don't stand so close to me' was in the history books as the only reunion of the Brit...

In 1990, Kate Bush was one of the artists that participated in the project 'Two rooms', in which covers of Elton John songs were rec...

February 29 is an extraordinary day and on such a day I think I should post at least one extraordinary record. This one fits the bill: it...

'Respectable' was only the second single of the duo Mel & Kim Appleby, but they were quickly becoming a phenomenon. The single r...

The instrumental track 'Axel F', created entirely with synthesizers by Harold Faltermeyer, featured in the movie 'Beverley Hills...

A-ha were never very generous with bonus tracks after their first two albums were a hit, but sometimes there were some pleasant surprises. T...