I don't have a lot of Yugoslavian Eurovision singles, but I do love them, because I quite like the fact that I actually own singles fr...

Nothing beats the beauty of Japanese singles. If they weren't so damn expensive, I would buy much more of them. The attention to detai...

Another band I've seen live at the beginning of this century, was Altered Images. Actually, it was only Clare Grogan because the rest ...

The early Eighties were full of colourful pop artists, and Steve Strange was among them. I had the pleasure of seeing him live on stage at...

In 1973, the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Luxembourg. The previous year the contest was won by Vicky Leandros with 'Apres toi...

I rarely buy new singles anymore, and that's not strange when you think that most vinyl singles these days are released by new indie b...

'Who needs love like that' was originally Erasure's debut single in 1985. While the original 1985 release enjoyed only minor ...

Just like Could it be I'm falling in love , 'Everlasting love' is a cover version - originally recorded by Love Affair - and w...

This past summer was hot. While we are enjoying the last few rays of sunshine, here's a sunny summer track. Recorded by Flash Cadillac...

For many years I have procrastinated buying this single by The The. 'Infected' was originally released in a sleeve that was deemed...

I don't have a lot of original singles by Bread, although I do like the band. They are simply quite hard to come by if you're not ...

Before Amina represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991, she already had a little career of her own. The album 'Yalil...

Record companies can be strange, especially when different strategies are employed in different territories. In the UK, EMI released Naked...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I already posted a version of the 'Dallas' theme two years ago, in a version by the Bo...

Released in April 1983, 'The two of us' was the last single by Earth & Fire to reach the Dutch Top 40. The band had a lot of h...

For many years, the Fixx was the band that gave me Stand or fall and Red skies , two singles that ended up in my collection very quickly....

Heddy Lester represented the Netherlands with the song 'De Mallemolen', with a fairly depressing lyric. I wrote about that nine ye...

'A ave a infancia' is the Portuguese version of 'L'oiseau et l'enfant', the song that won the Eurovision Song Cont...

Taken from his album 'Girls and Places', 'Little Julie' may be a little sentimental, but this single was typical Seventies...

Lise Haavik (born 23 February 1962) is a Danish/Norwegian singer, best known for representing Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in Be...