Born as Pierre Antoine Muraccioli on 23 January 1945 in Toamasina, Madagascar, Antoine is a French singer, and also a sailor and adventurer...

It's easy to dismiss music from the Nineties because it was so bad. At least, a lot of bad music was produced during that decade. This s...

In 1957, Bobbejaan Schoepen represented Belgium at the second edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Straatdeuntje', composed ...

Sandie Jones was born in Dublin in 1951. She was one of 11 children. She began recording songs from 1969 onwards. Those singles were all in ...

Germany's Katja Ebstein recorded her 1980 Eurovision entry 'Theater' in several languages, and it's a bit of a sport to get ...

Berta Ambrož was born on 29 October 1944 and was working as a typist while also performing live in the Slovene area of Yugoslavia. In 1966 s...

The legendary Lys Assia won the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, but she returned the next year, representing Switzerland again w...

The very first Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1956. Not all songs were released as a single, but some were. During this first edition...

You would almost forget if you listen to the cheesy ' Insieme: 1992 ' or the infernal racket of Italy's most recent winners Mane...

Since I live in the Netherlands I tend to get very jealous of Germans and British people, who can just go to the shop and buy those magazine...

On 22 September Austrian singer-songwriter Peter Horton passed away, aged 82. His 'Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt' was on my wi...

Not much is known about Frédérica Pietra, except the release of her singles between 1956 and 1960. She even released one album (on a 10...

Slowly but steadily I am getting more and more singles by Laurent Voulzy; tracks that apppear on his compilation album 'Carib islander...

'Albatross' was released on a red vinyl 12" single for Record Store Day earlier this year. Obviously this was on the occasion o...

Man is a rock band from Wales. Formed in November 1968 as a reincarnation of the Welsh vocal group the Bystanders, Man is renowned for the e...

Nothing beats the original by the Doors, of course, but Jose Feliciano still made some waves when he recorded his version of 'Light my f...

Through the years I've bought some Stevie Wonder singles, sometimes even without knowing the song. You can't really go wrong with ac...

When Lys Assia won the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 it wasn't immediately clear that she'd performed a classic song, b...

I bought a copy of ' A song goes out around the world ' in 2009, on a cold winter's day in Amsterdam - a visit I remember all to...

Occasionally The The releases a new single, and then it takes a while for me to buy it due to the insane prices commanded by new singles the...