The Pet Shop Boys have been around for forty years now and they have been able to create great music consistently. The early beginnings were...

It's always nice to buy a rare Kate Bush item, but buying an illegal item always feels less comfortable. In the case of this 12" si...

Today is King's Day in the Netherlands, and traditionally this means that you take the stuff you don't want anymore and offer it for...

Michèle Torr represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with ' Une petite Française '. The song reached fourth place ...

I had the good fortune of finding two picture disc 7" singles of Ultravox on one day, and because they both looked so good I simply had...

I had the pleasure of seeing Ultravox live at Paradiso during the last tour they ever did - and with the recent passing of Chris Cross I thi...

Another Hot Chocolate single I didn't already have is 1974's 'Changing world'. In this case, it's the Belgian pressing w...

With all the Hot Chocolate singles already in my collection, it's always a bit of a surprise when one turns up that I don't already ...

25 years ago I bought the single ' Never / These dreams ' by Heart, a compilation of two songs from their self-titled album in 1985,...

Sheena Easton had a very decent career during the Eighties, with a good selection of hits and quality pop songs. It has caused me to buy a s...

The song ' L'amour est bleu ' competed in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967, performed by Vicky Leandros, and it became a big ...

It doesn't happen very often that two versions of a single appear with the same seller, especially when you're after both versions. ...

Although the A-side of this single is really the Italian song 'Nessuno mi puo giudicare', all the attention has to be focused on its...

Like I wrote when I bought the French version of 'La, la, la' , I only had the Portuguese and English version of Joan Manuel Serrat...

Having already bought ' L'amour est bleu ' and ' A taste of Vicky ', I thought I had a pretty decent selection of Japane...

It's funny how Domenico Modugno keeps popping up on this blog, while I'm really only after three of his songs. However, ' Volare...

The Milestones represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with ' Falter im Wind '. It remains one of the most underr...

I bought 'Children, Kinder, enfants' in 2009, a single by an international group of singers. I bought it a few times after that, bec...

Back in 1977 Ilanit represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time. She'd been the country's first representa...

In September 2021 I wrote: "France Gall only recorded a French and Japanese version of ['Poupée de cire, poupée de son'], as fa...