It may seem like I am on a buying spree with regards to Billy Idol singles recently, but that's all because I discovered some very delic...

After the original version and the Italian version , I found the French version of 'La, la, la' by Joan Manuel Serrat recently. Ine...

The Japanese really know how to package their singles - they regularly come with totally different sleeves and then there's the sleeve n...

Marianne Mendt was born on 29 September 1945. She trained as a jazz singer and actress and toured as a singer and bass player, with group th...

Bryan Ferry's 'Let's stick together' is one of those songs that probably everybody knows. It's very familiar and a radio...

Shakatak's 'City rhythm' starts with a fetching intro by a female voice, and then the song doesn't really take off but remai...

Through the years there have been many occasions when I saw this single and I didn't buy it. In my mind, I already bought it years ago. ...

You could argue that I already owned Bread's 'Baby I'm a want you' on this Original Oldies single , but there's nothing ...

This 'cover to cover' single features two versions of the song 'Go now': the original by the Moody Blues and a live cover ve...

'Don't need a gun' is a single taken from Billy Idol's third album 'Whiplash smile'. The song was written by Billy I...

The re-release of Billy Idol's 'Catch my fall' in 1988 was aided by a special box set featuring 4 cards and a badge. Sets like t...

It´s probably better to stay uninformed about the political standpoints of your favourite artists, because sometimes it gets in the way of y...

If you were living in Portugal in 1980 and you wanted to have a generous collection of Eurovision Song Contest songs from that year, your ch...

This single is a throwback to my earliest childhood, when I first started getting interested in pop music in the wake of my sister's sin...

A visit to a real record shop is always a pleasure, especially when they've got a good selection of 7" singles to look around in. I...

José Henrique Duarte Mendes (born 7 August 1947) is a Portuguese former captain and singer. He participated in Festival da Canção in 1970, 1...

For a long time this single was on my wish list. It's the last single that I needed to complete the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 - the l...

Although the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 was performed by Os Amigos , the song was performed twice during the P...

Joan Manuel Serrat was the original performer of ' La, la, la ', before he was replaced by Massiel after he announced that he would...

Having bought ' Skibet skal sejle i nat ' a year ago on a 78rpm record, it shouldn't be surprising that I would eventually get t...