What? No “Karen Don’t Be Sad”? My favourite thing she’s ever done…

I have that Dance Decade one too, in similar condition to yours, but still playable. From the Streetsounds stable, it’s rather great.

The Official Charts page gives a decent, if fairly mainstream, weekly list, without much in the way of editorial:

4 of the top 5 in my 6 picks, with Lithuania at 8 (Norway nowhere) – well done me!

On reflection, Italy’s effort wasn’t bad, but not top 5 for me.

I liked:

Ukraine (best by a mile)
Iceland
France
Norway
Switzerland
Lithuania

Missed about 20 mins earlier in the evening, but from the reprise, don’t think I missed much…

Presumably having seen the successes other parties have had across the world electing buffoons as their leader, the DUP didn’t want to get left behind…

Story behind the sleeve here – click More in the profile…

It’s based on Hepworth’s book – he mentioned it on a recent podcast, and he’s mentioned in this article about it.

I still feel as warmly towards it as I did nearly 44 years ago when I first heard “You Took The Words…” on Radio Luxembourg and knew I had to have it (got the LP for my next birthday) – fantastic pop songs wit […]

Can’t believe we’ve got to 9 posts without etc. etc…

Here’s the future Buzzcocks frontman* with a genuinely lovely tune from 1974 – title says it all

Fun fact – this Pete(r) Shelley was in fact Alvin Stardus […]

That’s a brilliant article. If the filmmakers really trusted their series and their research, why would they not have gone through the points raised one-by-one and dismantled them? Surely the time taken to do so w […]

Cast in Hull in 1995 – they were alright* but not the sort of thing you want to damage your hearing over.

A great list – I think this fits too

Perhaps more ironic is that the two countries’ combined populations are around the same size as that of New Zealand…

Really enjoyable post Dave.

I only have a best of, plus a few tracks on compilations. There are a handful of singles I really like by them – Doctor! Doctor! (which my iTunes tells me was co-written with Jesse […]

He’s got his number one album (in the UK, Germany & the Netherlands at least), which is nice, as it seems to have been important to him…

It’s a solid album with 3 amazing songs – two of which have featured above, so here’s the third and my favourite:

I went with my Dad about 4 times to see James Last, starting in 1980. Mostly in Belfast, though the last time was in the RAH. He’s highly underrated, in part down to releasing those largely terrible party a […]

Ah, yes you did! (just finished listening).

Another good, entertaining one, from a consistently high bar. Only the Afterword though would have a discussion about John Coltrane in an 80s podcast!

Is that the same Princess whose hits were all produced by, er, Stock-Aitken-Waterman?