In 1971 Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest by Family Four. With the song 'Vita vidder' they managed to get to s...

Wencke Myhre was born on February 15, 1947 in Kjelsås, Norway, and became a popular singer after signing her first recording contract at t...

My copy of 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter , described on this blog ten years ago, wasn't very interesting to look at for its lack of ...

Lotta Engberg was born on March 5, 1963 and represented her country Sweden in 1987 with the song 'Boogaloo'. The song was original...

On June 6, 2017 Sandra Reemer passed away following a long battle with breast cancer. She had a long and interesting career, not least bec...

It doesn't happen very often that I buy a single that I have been looking for for years, but today is such a day. I started collecting...

British magazine Record Mirror would give away 7" vinyl singles with their issues from time to time, sometimes containing exclusive c...

In 1990 the album Red Hot & Blue raised money for Aids research. The album contained Cole Porter songs covered by pop artists. Miss Ot...

You wouldn't be far off the mark if you associated the letter M with that one hit single, Popmuzik , from 1979. Personally I always pr...

After the Nineties were taken over by the Spice Girls, the group fell apart as quickly as they'd appeared in the charts and the member...

Tonicha was born as Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha on 8 March 1946, in Beja, Alentejo, Portugal. She represented Portugal in the Eurovisi...

Coldplay has become, for some, the epitome of uncool. Still the band manages to release some cool songs from time to time - although I mus...

Vayta was born as Seid Memić on March 8, 1950. He was the vocalist for the Yugoslav rock band Teška Industrija between 1975 and 1979. In 1...

After a successful album campaign for 'From time to time', a collection of Paul's hits since he went solo, he recorded 'Bo...

People who know me, know that any activities involving sports or anything associated with sports turn me off big time. So it's quite i...

I wonder how many Abba fans are aware that this track happened. I don't recall any news items about this back in 1981, but it is prett...

Kraftwerk singles are pretty rare, so whenever I see one for an affordable price I leap at the chance to own it. Even if, in this case, th...

Svenne Hedlund and Charlotte Walker met in 1967 when Svenne was the vocalist in the band Hep Stars, which also included Benny Andersson wh...

The movie 'Mo' Money' featured this track by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson, 'The best things in life are free'. Th...

There's been a lot of attention for Kate Bush these last few months, on the occasion of her 'Remastered' box sets. Re-releases...