Some 12" singles only appear in my collection because they're cheap. I don't think I would have ever had this one if I'd ...

'Master and servant' was Depeche Mode's 11th UK single and the second single from their album 'Some great reward'. The...

'Touch Dance' is a remix album by the Eurythmics. This mini-album was released by RCA Records in May 1984, six months after the re...

The last single to be released by Altered Images was 'Change of heart', taken from their third album 'Bite'. Although that...

Released in March 1960, 'Johnny Rocco' was the first single by Marty Wilde in a long time to peak outside the UK top 10. He'd ...

Decca Records supplied a press information sheet within the sleeve of this single, and so we can read the following: 'Kit is honest en...

Paul Young was very successful with his first two albums, 'No parlez' and 'The secret of association'. Sell-out tours and ...

Clannad wrote the music for the soundtrack of the television series 'Robin Hood', broadcast by the BBC in the mid-Eighties and rel...

Between 1971 and 1986, Dusty Springfield had no hits in the American or British charts. That is a long time by any standard. Still, she ke...

'A million love songs' was the penultimate single from Take That's debut album and was written by lead vocalist Gary Barlow at...

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

'Sister Moon' was Transvision Vamp's fifth single release and the final single to be taken from their debut album Pop Art. It ...

'I wanna be loved by you' was written by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby with lyrics by Bert Kalmar for the 1928 musical 'Good...

'Hide and Seek' was Five Star's second single and would later be included on their 1985 debut album 'Luxury of life'. ...

After their top 10 hit with 'Halfway down the stairs' in the summer of 1977, the Muppets followed that single up with an EP featur...

I first discovered this song when I bought the 12" single in November 2008, also at the record fair in Utrecht. I'd just started...

A photographic memory isn't of much use when record companies decide to have different picture sleeves for singles in different territ...

When I posted this blog about the 12" single of Fiction Factory's 'Ghost of love' , Laurent from Belgium pointed out that...

When Kim Wilde recently recorded a cover of 'Spirit in the sky', it was reason enough for me to want to hear (and have) the origin...

With a softfocus sleeve and a singer like Lynsey de Paul, people in the Seventies knew what they were getting: carefully crafted pop songs...