Every once in a while I get to buy a single I've been searching for - I mean, actively searching for - for many years. Earlier this we...

Re-recording songs is seldom a good idea. Too many artists have re-recorded their hits from the beginning of their career, and it usually ...

No-one pronounces the word 'action' quite like Alicia Bridges, who scored a big hit in 1978 with 'I love the nightlife'. T...

Although I do have a single with Peter Gabriel's 'Games without frontiers' on it ( see it here ) I really wanted to have the o...

There was a bit of excitement recently when a compilation album of Eighties 12" remixes - you know the ones - suddenly included a rar...

Sometimes there are these surprises when you're going through a stack of records. And finding this 12" single of Killing Joke...

'Funny how love is' was released as the fourth and final single from Fine Young Cannibals' self-titled debut album in early 19...

Although the intro of this version of Popcorn sounds a lot like Belgian techno collective Technotronic's 'Pump up the jam', th...

The timeless melody 'Popcorn', composed by Gershon Kingsley, has been covered many times, with varying success. Thanks to my recen...

I have collected all of Dutch singer Frank Boeijen's singles (the result is shown here ), but his ventures into foreign language have ...

Black's 'Sweetest Smile' was originally released in 1987 as the second single from his most successful album 'Wonderful li...

A deluxe cd version of her career-overshadowing album 'Slave to the rhythm' has still not been issued, so all we can do in the mea...

Nobody suspected that Stock, Aitken and Waterman would dominate the pop charts for the next half of the Eighties when this single, 'Lo...

Bronski Beat had already had two hits in 1984 when they released 'It ain't necessarily so', a cover of the George and Ira Gers...

It's a special year for Abba fans, as 'Waterloo' is celebrating its 40th birthday. Even back in 1974, the song was used as a v...

Denmark was represented in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest by the group Brixx. The group members were Jens Brixtofte (brother of the Dani...

With Kate Bush concerts in sight, it's no surprise I started looking for some Kate Bush records at the record fair in Utrecht today. I...

The German band Trio constructed the early synthpop hit 'Da da da' with a Casio VI-Tone and some bits of German dialogue. It was a...

Another single from David Bowie's most recent album 'The next day', 'Valentine's day' was released as a picture disc...

The surprise comeback of David Bowie at the beginning of 2013 was something that took hold of the 'serious' music press all throug...