One artist I never thought would feature on this blog is Arie Ribbens. Yet, here we are, the party singer from Eindhoven made it. The singer...

The impact of the Eurovision Song Contest was much bigger, perhaps, when it was much younger. Winning songs were often covered by many artis...

José Cid represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with ' Um grande, grande amor '. Besides the original Portugues...

The German duo Belle Schnetzler and Horst Hornung released one single in 1971, a cover version of 'In this world we live in', a song...

Owning two versions of the 7" single and the original version of the 12" single and was obviously not enough for a completist li...

Steven Wilson's album The Future Bites is a fantastic record, and I was very glad when I received the deluxe edition of that album on C...

At the beginning of the Eighties, Queen wasn't as popular as they would be later on in their career. This is proved by the single I boug...

'Mony mony' was originally recorded in 1968 by Tommy James and the Shondells. The title was inspired by Tommy James' view of the...

Some singles appear as a surprise to me. Having owned the double single of the Adventures' ' Send my heart ' since 1990, I never...

Released in 1981, this single presents some older Kraftwerk tracks. 'Kometenmelodie 2' appeared on the album Autobahn in 1974, and ...

During the Eighties, I listened to the radio and every now and then this song would come up. Certainly being at the age of having to go to s...

In January I posted a 7" single by the Corrs on this blog for the first time (' Little lies / Songbird '), and I'm glad to ...

On the hunt for 7" singles in London was rather a disappointing adventure this past weekend. There aren't that many record shops th...

When Kate Bush released the On Stage EP , promotional singles were made for 'Them Heavy People', which was the lead track of the EP....

Physical releases of Eurovision songs from this year have been very scarce, unfortunately. So far, I've only been able to get Olly Alexa...

The German magazine Musikexpress released three Kraftwerk singles over a period of a few years. I bought the magazine with singles of ' ...

I was ordering some singles online and this one popped up with the same seller for just one euro. As you know I'm a sucker for Amiga EP&...

I knew 'Clean clean' as a song by the Buggles, but I wasn't aware that it was a cover version of a song originally recorded by B...

Nobody knows who Lynn Thomas and Paul Clark were, but they recorded a cover version of ' Rock bottom ', the song with which Lynsey d...

In 1963 Alain Barriere represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest with ' Elle était si jolie '. Back then it wasn't unusu...