Although the Human League is known as an "Eighties band" by most people, their career actually started in 1978 with Being boiled...

Krunoslav "Kićo" Slabinac was born on March 28, 1944 in Osijek, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). During the 1960s Slabinac was a member...

Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner and Özkan Uğur represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest back when Turkey was still participating in th...

One of the best ever Swedish contributions to the Eurovision Song Contest in my opinion - and there have been many - is 1993's 'El...

Kraftwerk singles are rather hard to find, so every time I manage to buy one for a reasonable price, I am quite pleased. 'Trans Europe...

Line Van Menen and Claude Boillod called themselves Line et Willy and became famous after winning the Palmarès des Chansons with 'Le v...

Having been a member of the legendary band Hot Chocolate, Errol Brown went solo in the mid-Eighties, and somehow I can't help but wish...

I only bought 'Gold' in 1994, but evidently I should have waited 25 years longer because only now did I find a copy of the limited...

Everybody knows ' Careless whisper ' as George Michael's first solo single, and I bought it 35 years ago when it came out. Whe...

Rick Dees was working as a DJ on the Memphis AM radio station WMPS when he heard a guy doing a duck voice while he was working out at his ...

Continuing on the theme of Japanese singles of songs that I already own, this is another copy of the single ' Go west ', a single ...

Back in 2004, I bought a copy of ' Bette Davis eyes ', a great hit from 1981. And more recently, I bought an Italian promo featuri...

I've had a copy of Boney M's ' Rasputin ' for ten years already, so I guess that means that this single is superfluous in ...

The German trio Arabesque was very successful in the far east, and this Japanese single just underlines that fact. Their advice for the Ja...

So, I have the single ' Dschinghis Khan ' by the German band Dschinghis Khan, and I have the English version of the song, ' Ge...

While most of the world released Sheena Easton's ' Strut ' as a single, in Japan the A- and B-sides were flipped, and so '...

The song 'In the navy' was basically a promotion for the navy, describing it as an attractive employer. Until the bridge, when th...

The Village People had the biggest hit of their career with 'Y.M.C.A.', a number one hit in the UK and the Netherlands, peaking a...

I haven't written about Terence Trent d'Arby in ten years, I just found out, and there's a reason for that: I think I have all...

Although the sleeve of this single simply credits the song 'På en gammal bänk' to Siw, the label clears up the mystery: yes, this ...