Just like ' Love is a lonely harbour ', 'Mothers little soldier' is a single taken from Fra Lippo Lippi's 1989 album ...

I do read the comments on this blog, although there aren't that many. My recent entry about Sergio Endrigo's ' Marianne ' ...

This single by Tears for fears is an interesting one: it was released in April 1986 in the USA, after the 'Songs from the big chair...

I could buy a lot of singles by Sade just for the artwork. There have been a lot of different sleeves in different territories, and they u...

Evanescence's exercise of fusing their hardrock tracks with a symphonic orchestra on the album 'Synthesis' has created one of ...

During holidays I make a point of visiting local record shops, which this year was a bit of a challenge since the small town of Dahn in Ge...

You might wonder why I bought this single, when I've already got a copy of Mike Oldfield's Five miles out . The answer is quite si...

George McCurn was born on January 21, 1920 in Chicago. He was a bass singer who started off singing gospel and switched to pop in the Sixt...

Inge Brück was born on October 12, 1936 in Mannheim (Germany). She represented Germany during the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with ...

Martyn Ware and Ian Craig-Marsh from Heaven 17 didn't have enough work on their hands, so they devoted part of their time to the '...

'Tubular bells' remains Mike Oldfield's best known piece of work, even if it was the first album he ever recorded. Since its r...

Rock 'n' roll can be exciting, as I found out quite early on, when I got the album The best of the top 40 of the year in the summ...

Sergio Endrigo was born in Pola, Istria (Italy) on June 15, 1933 and started his career in music in the early 1960's. After releasing ...

Released in 1985, 'Experience' was a single by Diana Ross that went by almost unnoticed, even if the song was written by the Bee G...

Serge & Christine Ghisoland (both born in 1946) are a singing duo and married couple from Mouscron, Belgium, best known for their part...

As you can gather from this blog, my collection focuses on pop music, but I do enjoy a bit of classical music now and then. Whether George...

I'm not really sure if a sleeve like the one shown here would be well received nowadays, with all the #metoo scandals we have been wit...

The previous two entries on this blog came with the big one: this single. I have been hunting for the two Wilde Three singles for decades ...

Stevie Wonder has a lot of big hits on his name, but sometimes even Stevie Wonder released unsuccessful singles. 'He's misstra kno...

American singer-songwriter Tommy Roe was born on May 9, 1942 started his career in the USA, but moved to the UK after a successful tour wi...