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Monday, 11 August 2025

Level 42 - Running in the Family 1987

Running in the Family is the seventh album from Level 42 released in March 1987 on Polydor Records. It was produced by Wally Badarou and Level 42 The album reached number 2 and spent 54 weeks on the U.K. chart.

Listen To Album:


Track Listing:

Lessons in Love

Children Say

Running in the Family

It's Over

To Be With You Again

Two Solitudes

Fashion Fever

Sleepwalkers



                                                                           Music Week

                                                                                  NME


Number One

                                                                          Record Mirror

                                                                          Smash Hits




Monday, 14 July 2025

Ruby Turner Motown Song book 1988

 

Motown Song Book is the second album from Ruby Turner released in Septemeber 1988 on Jive Records. It was produced by Joylon Skinner, Jon Astrop, Loris Holland and Roy Hay The album reached number 22 and spent 6 weeks on the U.K. chart.

Listen To Album:


Track Listing:

Nowhere To Run (Nowhere To Hide)

Baby I Need Your Lovin'

What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted

The Tracks Of My Tears        

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me

Ooo Baby Baby         

Every Little Bit Hurts

How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)


                                                            Music and Media Review






Monday, 9 June 2025

Julia Fordham - Porcelain - 1989

 


Porcelain is the second album from Julia Fordham released in October 1989 on Circa / Virgin Records. It was produced by Julia Fordham, Kevin Maloney, Grant Mitchell and Hugh Padghan The album reached number 13 and spent 5 weeks on the U.K. chart.

Listen To Album:


Track List:

1.         "Lock and Key"         

2.         "Porcelain"     

3.         "Girlfriend"    

4.         "For You Only for You"        

5.         "Genius"

6.         "Did I Happen to Mention?" 

7.         "Towerblock" 

8.         "Island"          

9.         "Your Lovely Face"   

10.       "Prince of Peace"

                                                                 Record Mirror


Music Week





Monday, 12 May 2025

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless - 1982

 


The Golden Age of Wireless is the debut album from Thomas Dolby released in May 1982 on Venice in Peril / EMI Records. It was produced by Thomas Dolby and Tim Friese-Greene.  The album reached number 68 and spent 10 weeks on the U.K. chart.

Listen To Album:


Track List:

Europa And The Pirate Twins                             

Flying North 

Weightless

Leipzig

Windpower                                                              

Commercial Breakup                                             

Urges                                                                        

Airwaves                                                                  

Radio Silence                                                          

Cloudburst At Shingle Street 

                                                                   

                                                                 Smash Hits Review








Monday, 14 April 2025

Blancmange - Mange Tout - 1984

 

Mange Tout is the second album from Blancmange, released in May 1984 on London Records. It was produced by John Luongo, Peter Collins, John Owen Williams and Blancmange.  The album reached number 8 on the U.K. chart.

Listen To Album:


Track List:

1.         "Don't Tell Me"          

2.         "Game Above My Head"       

3.         "Blind Vision"

4.         "Time Became the Tide"        

5.         "That's Love, That It Is"        

 6.        "Murder"        

7.         "See the Train"           

8.         "All Things Are Nice"

9.         "My Baby"     

10.       "The Day Before You Came" 


                                   


                   

                                                                   Smash Hits Review


Number One Magazine Review

Record Mirror Review







Monday, 10 March 2025

Nia Peeples - Nothin But Trouble - 1988

 

 


Nothin' But Trouble is the debut album from Nia Peeples released in April 1988 on Mercury / Polygraml Records. It was produced by Steve Harvey, Howard Hewitt, Monte Moir, Doc Powell, Doc Powell & Tony Pendatt.  The album didn't chart on the British charts and Peaked at Number 97 on the U.S. Billboard Chart.

Listen to the Full album: 


Track Listing:

Trouble (6:28)

High Time (4:27)

Star Crossed Lovers (5:46)

Be My Lover (4:23)

Is It Really Love (4:28)

Never Gonna Get It (4:19)

This Time I'll Be Sweeter (4:14)

Poetry In Motion (3:50)

I Know How To Make You Love Me (6:56)

For The Sake Of Loving (5:21)

Trouble (12 inch Club Remix) (7:20) CD  / Cassette only

I Know How To Make You Love Me (Street Beat) (6:41) CD / Cassette only 




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