Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is the second studio album by Eurythmics, released on 21 January 1983. After almost two years of initial commercial failure for Eurythmics, this album became a commercial breakthrough for the duo on both sides of the Atlantic. The title … Read More →
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Kim Wilde – Select
Select is the second studio album by Kim Wilde, released in May 1982. The first single from this album, “Cambodia”, was released in November 1981 and signalled a different sound from the Wilde camp, with an electronic and synth sound different from The Enid sound … Read More →
Kim Wilde – Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde is the first studio album by Kim Wilde, released in June 1981. Most of the music on this album was played by the symphonic rock band “The Enid” and the songs were all written by Marty Wilde and Ricky Wilde. Production duties were … Read More →
Kim Wilde – Close
Close is the sixth studio album by Kim Wilde, released in mid 1988. Produced by Ricky Wilde and Tony Swain, Close was the final album on which Marty Wilde had co-writer credits. The album is widely perceived by fans and critics (and Kim herself) as … Read More →
Kim Wilde – Catch As Catch Can
Catch as Catch Can is the third studio album by Kim Wilde, released in autumn 1983. Having toured the UK and Europe in November and December 1982, there was a silence of six months. Kim Wilde returned with the single “Love Blonde”, a jazz/swing-inspired track … Read More →
Kim Wilde – The Very Best Of
The Very Best of Kim Wilde was released in November 1984, after Kim left the RAK Record label. It featured tracks taken from her first three albums, the non-album single “Child Come Away” and a B-side (“Boys”). (Quelle Wikipedia) Kim Wilde: Pop star at 20. … Read More →
Kim Wilde – Teases & Dares
Teases & Dares is the fourth studio album by Kim Wilde, released in November 1984 via MCA Records. After leaving RAK Records, who had released her first three albums, Wilde signed to MCA Records in 1984. Her brother, Ricky Wilde, continued to serve as her … Read More →
Yazz – The Only Way Is Up
The Only Way Is Up is a song written by George Jackson and Johnny Henderson and originally released 1980 as single by soul singer Otis Clay. In 1988, it became a chart-topping single for Yazz and the Plastic Population. The Yazz version was produced by … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – It’s Alright (The DJ International Mixes)
It’s Alright is the 13th single from Pet Shop Boys and was released in the UK by Parlophone Records on 26 June 1989. The lyrics list a wide variety of serious political issues in the headlines at the time (“Dictation enforced in Afghanistan, revolution in … Read More →
Pet Shop Boys – Being Remixed
Being Boring is the second single from the 1990 album Behaviour, after “So Hard” which was released before the album. “Being Boring” was not particularly successful upon release, only reaching number twenty in the UK singles chart and being the second single released by the … Read More →
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome Fruitness (12 XZTAS 7)
Welcome to the Pleasuredome is the title track to the 1984 debut album by Frankie. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In March 1985, the album track was substantially abridged and remixed for release as … Read More →
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Watching The Wildlife Movement 2 (12 ZTAX 26)
Watching the Wildlife is the seventh and last single by FGTH. Released in early 1987, it is taken from the album Liverpool. Of the singles culled from Liverpool, “Watching the Wildlife” is the most poppy and similar in sound to the band’s early era material. … Read More →
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Watching The Wildlife: Beobachtungen im wilden Leben (12 ZTE 26)
Watching the Wildlife is the seventh and last single by FGTH. Released in early 1987, it is taken from the album Liverpool. Of the singles culled from Liverpool, “Watching the Wildlife” is the most poppy and similar in sound to the band’s early era material. … Read More →
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Warriors Turn Of The Knife Mix (12 ZTAX 25)
Warriors Of The Wasteland is the sixth single from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in 1986. It was taken from the album Liverpool. Having already referenced literary heavyweights, for “Warriors of the Wasteland” Holly Johnson turned to T. S. Eliot for inspiration. Johnson cited Eliot’s … Read More →
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome (ZTTIQ 1)
Welcome to the Pleasuredome was the debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, first released in the UK in October 1984 by ZTT/Island Records and was produced by Trevor Horn. Issued as a vinyl double album, it was assured of a UK chart entry at … Read More →
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Liverpool (ZTTIQ 8)
Liverpool is Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s second album, released in October 1986. It would be the band’s final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT. The … Read More →
Eurythmics – Touch
Touch is the third studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics, released in November 1983. The album was the duo’s first UK number-one album, and also reached the top 10 in the US. It has since been certified Platinum in the US and … Read More →