The Miami Vice theme was created and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series Miami Vice. It was first presented as p...

A simple song was the English version of this single. Quite why the band was suddenly called Bandjo is unclear to me, because 'En lil...

'Just What I Needed', like many other tracks on The Cars' debut album, originated as a demo tape recorded by the band in 1977....

Two months ago, I got me a copy of Bobby Patrick Band's interpretation of the 'Dallas' theme , but that was of course not the ...

Some songs are classics that everyone should own. This blog is littered with them, of course, but there are some tracks that defy criticis...

The Yugoslavian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986 was performed by Doris Dragovic. She sang the dramatic love ballad 'Zelj...

Nik Kershaw had a big hit in 1984 with I won't let the sun go down . Such was the success of this single, that other artists were inspir...

Some singles are rather rare, and as a result, record dealers at record fairs are usually tempted to ask a high price for them. Then there...

Back in 1989, I bought a compilation CD featuring all the songs from that year's Eurovision Song Contest. For obvious reasons, that CD...

Monsoon's 1982 single Ever so lonely is wellknown, as it got a Europe-wide release after relative success in the UK. The single displ...

The American series Dallas is an integral part of the Eighties experience, and as a child of the Eighties I was just as addicted to the sh...

While I have been collecting singles for almost 40 years now, and I have been obsessed with Eighties music ever since the Eighties, there ...

Child star Anne Mette Torp from Hønefoss (Norway) had a great year in 1973, when she shot to fame with a cover version of Ricky Wilde...

I first got to know the UK band Black in 1984, when the music video for 'Hey presto' appeared on television. I'm not sure whet...

The death of Colin Vearncombe, singer and sole member of the band Black, on January 26 this year, was a big blow. I have collected all of ...

In the name of love was originally a song by the Thompson Twins released in 1982. After that, the group made it big with hits such as Do...

It's not a bad idea, sometimes, to let your biggest stars record a duet together. That's what must have gone through the executive...

When Wham! released 'Young guns (go for it)' in October 1982, it broke new ground for the duo George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ...

Why not start the new year with two music legends? I received this 12" single just before the turn of the year, after a month of wait...

There are many versions of Kim Wilde's 'Kids in America', but there are also a lot of versions of 'Kaupungin lapset', ...