Can it really be 13 years since I last bought a Simple Minds single? I guess so, but this time I felt it was quite necessary. I bought '...

A nice surprise happened last week when I was on my break at work: an announcement of the newest issue of Electronic Sounds with a free Pet...

The Eurovision Song Contest took place earlier this month, and one of the most eyepopping performances came from the United Kingdom. Not ent...

In 1968 Karel Gott represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Tausend Fenster', a song written by Udo Jürgens. Since K...

After ' Popmuzik ', ' Popmuzik ', ' Popmuzik ', ' Popmuzik ' and ' Popmuzik ', I recently found out ...

'Run' by Snow Patrol is easily one of the best songs of this century, but so far I haven't been able to buy a copy on 7" vi...

'Seal our fate' was released as the second single from Gloria Estefan's album Into the light (1991). In the UK, the 7" vin...

If you were alive in the Eighties, you most certainly will have heard King's 'Love & pride', which dominated the music chann...

Alison Moyet enjoyed a great deal of success with her debut solo album Alf in 1984. She followed it up with Raindancing over a year later....

Level 42 enjoyed a great deal of success in the mid-Eighties, but after the huge success of their album Running in the family , the original...

David Bowie is often praised for his pre-Eighties work, but during the Eighties I discovered the man, and personally I feel his best work wa...

This Hot Chocolate single is a bit of a landmark, because not only does it feature Errol Brown prominently on the sleeve, it is also his las...

I've been rather successful in collecting Ilanit's Eurovision songs recently. Having bought ' Ahava hi shir lishnayim ' last...

The album Strangeland is not Keane's best known album - that honour would go to Hopes & fears , celebrating its 20th anniversary th...

Kate Bush seems to be in full Kraftwerk mode recently, re-releasing her music as if she isn't creating any new music anymore. (Well, who...

Toy is a studio album by the English musician David Bowie, recorded from July to October 2000 in New York City and featured re-recordings o...

With the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest taking place tomorrow, there's a lot of speculation about Abba. Will they appe...

It's funny how a living and changing collection like mine stays quite staticly online. I have recently done away with all of my Madness...

It's not exactly clear to me for whom Marty Wilde wrote 'The Spirit of Joe Hill', but it seems that Laurie Dryden was the only ...

Hard to imagine this year, but back in 1966 the Netherlands were still sending quality songs to the Eurovision Song Contest. Milly Scott mad...