Although I already own a 12" single of Risqué's ' Burn it up (Mr. DJ) ', there was still another one worth seeking out. T...

This single was taken from 'Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward', an album curated by Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop...

During the bleak Nineties, the 7" single format was given up by record companies in favour of cd-singles. We all know what happened n...

La muñeca de sal is a Spanish band, which formed during the 1990's, releasing their debut album 'Ultra-Realidad' in 1997. Wels...

I already own quite a few releases by Private Lives , a band from the UK which I discovered back when 'Living in a world (turned upsid...

Utter the words 'I feel for you', and most people who are into Eighties music will immediately respond with the name Chaka Khan. F...

I don't really buy a lot of 12" singles anymore: most of the extended remixes of my favourite artists have been released on cd - ...

Since Prince's death in April 2016, his estate has been rather generous in releasing music from his personal vault. Several compilatio...

Several years after releasing Doći Ćeš Sam - the EP that included a Eurovision cover - Tereza Kesovija made it to the Eurovision stage he...

'Addio, addio' ('Goodbye, goodbye') was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962, performed Claudio Villa (bo...

'Dan ljubezni' ('A day of love') was the song entered into the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest by Yugoslavia. It was performe...

I haven't suddenly developed an interest in folk music from Yugoslavia, although this single certainly serves up some of the Balkan na...

Sandra Reemer renamed herself Xandra for the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, singing 'Colorado'. I already owned the Dutch version o...

I thought I already owned all Spandau Ballet singles, but somehow this one stayed under my radar until now. 'The freeze' was the b...

This is the Belgian pressing of ' Volare ' by Rosario e i Giaguari, and it differs from the other one. Not only because the sleeve...

There's no information about Rosario e i Giaguari anywhere, so there really isn't much to say about this band. All I know is that ...

Another purchase that is explained by the artwork only. This French edition of Raffaella Carra's biggest hit, ' A far l'amore ...

Nino de Angelo represented Germany during the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest with a song written by Dieter Bohlen and Joachim Horn-Bernges, ...

Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi, or princess Stephanie of Monaco as she is better known is a regular appearance on this blog, because s...

Exactly eight months after my last visit to Antwerp's Chelsea Records, I went there again. It's an amazing record store, stacked u...