I got to know Austrian singer Wilfried pretty early on, because of a holiday in Austria in 1980. The sleeve of his album hung prominently ...

Edin-Ådahl's 'Like a wind' was released as a single all over Europe in a time when Eurovision entries would be released as a s...

There are a few songs that are obvious candidates for a funeral: ' Shake your body down to the ground ' and Status Quo's '...

Last year I bought a copy of Ooh aah... Just a little bit on vinyl. It was the jukebox copy presumably from the UK. When I found out abou...

Two weeks ago I went to a Dutch theatre production of Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds', the legendary soundtrack-without-a-fil...

Cock Robin became very successful in Europe when they released 'The promise you made' - a number 1 hit in the Netherlands. Other s...

A surprise find during the record fair last Saturday. A dealer specialized in hardrock had a box of Record Store Day releases, and among a...

Keane's most recent single release was 'Tear up this town', a track for the feature film 'A monster calls'. This pictu...

In 1969, four artists won the Eurovision Song Contest. This was due to there being not enough rules in case of a draw. Since then, the rul...

Genesis had a good run of hit singles after the release of 'We can't dance', their last album with Phil Collins. The album was...

This is the debut single of Bow wow wow, released in July 1980. Initially it was only released as a cassette single (the world's first...

Crowded House have consistently released great singles throughout their career. I never became interested in their albums, but those singl...

Now that I own pretty much all of the 'obvious' Eurovision 7" singles, I am heading towards the more obscure - and usually mo...

I am currently re-watching Twin Peaks, after having been consumed by the third season of this epic series last year. The story is bewilder...

I am pretty pleased and surprised when I find a single I never saw before of a band I know and love - and with this one it was a case of ...

When I hear 'The right side won' I can't help but think back to the year 1983 when my life revolved around pirate radio statio...

I guess I didn't really need this 7" single by Kate Bush, but the fact that 'Strange phenomena' was never released as a s...

This is an interesting one. If you were to listen to 'V Patek Nevolej', the A-side of this single, you would think I have truly lo...

More Marty Wilde fun with these two singles of 'Little girl'. If I am to believe the labels of these singles, they are both promot...

It doesn't happen very often that you find rare American singles you've been searching for as a bargain. But that's exactly wh...