'La canzone Italiana' is, apparently, a series of 50 EP's presenting Italian songs, all released in 1970 - the year of my birth,...

It's time to give Australia some love. While the Finnish entry was certainly the winner and I quite liked some of the other songs, the A...

The Dutch duo Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper have had so much filth thrown towards them in the Dutch media that I was wondering at some point w...

The annual disappointment of an undeserving winner - in my opinion and most of the televoters I could say this year - has happened last nigh...

Somewhere in the next few days (well, Thursday actually), Gustaph will perform in the second semifinal of this year's Eurovision Song Co...

During the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, Spain was represented by Italian-Uruguayan band Los TNT with the song 'Caracola', written b...

This single could only be bought by those who bought Expo Bread, in Belgium during the Sixties. This combination of music and bread is one I...

If you want to buy singles of Irish Eurovision entries, you're likely to find lots of Dana, Linda Martin and the unavoidable Johnny Loga...

Finland has regularly stunned Eurovision audiences with eccentric entries. This year's 'Cha cha cha' is reasonably modern, but I...

Sometimes when you wait long enough records become affordable. Take for instance this 10" single from Snow Patrol, released on Record S...

It's hard to resist a beautiful picture disc, and some great ones were released in the Eighties. Not that this one is particularly stunn...

It has to be said that I already own the music on this single, as I bought the European edition in 1985. It was on red vinyl too. But it...

Captain Sensible achieved his only chart hit in the Netherlands in the last weeks of 1982 with the single 'Wot!', a track that featu...

I bought a copy of Helen Terry's 'Love lies lost' 13 years ago and I wrote about it on this blog. (I can't believe it's ...

The single ' Goodbye cruel word ' was actually released twice. I didn't know that before, but I bought this single and then disc...

The Sparks' ' This town ain't big enough for both of us ' was one of the first songs I was grabbed by as a child, not just b...

Another one of those San Remo-inspired EP's was released in 1959 by Gianni Ales y su conjunto, also known as  Gianni Ales ed il suo comp...

Back in the Sixties, the Sanremo festival was a popular music festival and spawned many cover versions. This single from the Spanish group L...

This single is a bit of an odd beast. Colin Blunstone has one of the best voices in the business and 'Tracks of my tears' is a class...

It's the song you know in a version that you don't. Jennifer Rush had a big hit in 1985 with 'The power of love', but she al...