Such is the shake-up of my record collection that all of the Madness singles except ' Driving in my car ' have been binned. Most of ...

'I'm a wonderful thing baby' appears on the B-side of this single of 'Stool pigeon' , but it was also released as a sing...

One of Chris Rea's lesser known singles is 'Hey you', taken from his fifth studio album Water sign , which yielded the hit singl...

It's always great to find a Hot Chocolate single. They released a lot of them in the Seventies, driven by music mogul Mickie Most and hi...

As I was going through my singles collection it dawned on me that I had a few Eddy Grant singles in red vinyl. I was intrigued and I started...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have always numbered the 7" singles featured on this blog. (12" singles are always u...

I have a big subcollection of Eurovision singles and within that subcollection there's another subcollection: 12" singles of Eurovi...

In 1980 Paul McCartney released 'McCartney II', a solo album created almost entirely on his own, aided only by his wife Linda. When ...

I'm not entirely sure if I would have bought this single if it wasn't a double single. I am just a sucker for special editions. ...

The GDR record company Amiga released so-called 'Amiga Quartett' EP's, featuring several tracks from a certain act. In this case...

'Hot hot hot!!!' was the fourth single released from the album 'Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me'. In early 1988, it spent three we...

Now that the Pet Shop Boys have established themselves as one of the premier acts of UK pop, it's hard to imagine that there was once a ...

After considerable success with the single ' Wot! ', Captain Sensible's career stalled. The next single 'Croydon' didn...

A year before the Gibson Brothers had a hit with ' Que sera mi vida ', they had a hit with a similarly Latin America-oriented single...

The Dream Academy never got much recognition beside their greatest hit ' Life in a northern town ', but obviously there was more to ...

Released in 1981, 'Shaggy raggy' was one of Jona Lewie's lesser known singles. It never charted and in fact I have never seen th...

It's quite funny to collect singles by Sheena Easton: usually they're not very expensive and they always pop up at record fairs, sec...

Another Spanish promotional single went into my collection, and it's an interesting one for sure. It's got only one playable side an...

Why would I buy another copy of 'Love is stronger than death' by The The? After all, I already owned that single . I bought it in Au...

When Spain won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 with  'La, la, la' by Massiel, other acts were quick to jump on the bandwagon. On...