Having bought my first ever Nana Mouskouri single in February (' The one that got away ') it looks like 2019 might be her year - a...

When Erasure released their Abba-esque EP , it was almost a given that Björn Again, one of several Abba cover bands, would come up with th...

During the Seventies I was already watching Toppop, thanks to my older brother and sister. They had their own interpretations on what the ...

I always held off on buying this single because I knew that there was a clear vinyl edition of it, just like all those Ultravox singles du...

While at Chelsea Records last week, I naturally checked out the Eurovision boxes, but there wasn't that much in there that I didn'...

The song 'Non ho l'eta' is best known in the version by Gigliola Cinquetti, who won the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, represen...

I scored a hattrick last week when I bought three singles by Chris Rea. The last of the three, after Giverny and You can go your own way ...

The British rock band The Enid was formed in 1973 by former Barclay James Harvest member Robert John Godfrey. Despite several album and si...

Having grown up with Boney M it's hard to withstand the German lipsynch band produced by the infamous Frank Farian. After Bobby Farrel...

To be honest, I had forgotten that I already owned a copy of Bread's ' Lost without your love ', so you might argue that I was...

A long time ago, when I was working at the public library, I had the opportunity to borrow cd's for free. During that time I listened ...

Not the famous Fleetwood Mac song, but a Chris Rea original. This single was released in 1994 to promote one of his greatest hits albums, ...

Kirsten Siggard (born 7 September 1954 in Slagelse) and Søren Bundgaard (born 4 March 1956 in Glostrup) formed Hot Eyes and represented De...

Somewhere along the way, I have become addicted to unknown Chris Rea singles. They are always surprising, but in a good way. His sound is ...

Steve Byrd was a guitarist in Kim Wilde's band when she went on tour for the first time in 1982. Since then, he remained in the band a...

It ain't easy to find a copy of Louis Neefs' first Eurovision entry, so it is only appropriate that I should find one in Belgium. ...

As one of the popular groups of the Seventies, Guys 'n' Dolls scored a string of hits in the UK and Europe. It is less wellknown t...

Spain won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 with the song 'La la la', as performed by Massiel. Such was the success of the song ...

Caravelli was a French orchestra leader, born in Paris on September 12, 1930. Born as Claude Vasori, he was the son of an Italian father a...

La Década Prodigiosa was formed in 1985 as a project directed by Javier de Juan (drums), Manel Santisteban (piano) and Manuel Aguilar (bas...