What are the odds!? Today I received this lovely red vinyl copy of the Police’s album Synchronicity. Only a few hours later the band announced a wonderful (belated) 40th anniversary 6 CD set featuring B-sides, demos, out-takes, alternate mixes, instrumentals and an unreleased live gig! This red vinyl edition was released sometime in 1984, about…

Queen were on a roll during the early 80’s. They had a massive hit under their belt with the album The Game in 1980 and released a nice soundtrack album a few months later for Flash Gordon. In November 1981 they released their first compilation album called Greatest Hits, featuring most of their singles. It…

Ex-Beatles member Paul McCartney released around 100 singles in the UK throughout his career as of 1971. Either solo or with his band Wings. Among these singles were two called We All Stand Together and Dance Tonight. We All Stand Together was released in 1984 during a time when his career was deemed to go…

As shown in the previous post, I have a special place in my heart for Genesis. I knew some of their hits, but took a deep dive around late 2001 by starting to listen to albums such as Duke, A Trick Of The Tail and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. It didn’t take long…

In 1982, Genesis released a double album called Three Sides Live. It contained, as you correctly guessed, three sides with live performances. The fourth side contained some non-album studio B-sides and material from an EP which was previously released in the UK. To keep the album interesting for those markets who already heard the studio…

If you navigate through this website, you will find out that I dig a number of Japanese artists. One of them is Imitation PoPs 宇宙戦隊NOIZ, aka UCHUSENTAI:NOIZ (宇宙戦隊/uchusentai means “space squadron”). In September 2007 the band embarked on an event where they gave 32 gigs during 32 days. Apart from this they also released 13…

Gary Numan gave his 1000th performance on the 15th of April 2023. To celebrate this, he released this special 7″ featuring two songs from this particular concert at Electric Ballroom in London, UK. 1000 numbered copies on tri-colored vinyl were made available. 200 of those were sold on the 12th of February 2024 through his…

What you see here is a unique promotional perspex display for David Bowie‘s 1984 album Tonight. Supposedly made in and/or used for the German market. The front artwork is generated through five layers of which three are inside. Each layer contains a portion of the artwork, creating a very nice 3D effect when looking at…