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Monday, 1 September 2025
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:
Lessons in Love
Children Say
Running in the
Family
It's Over
To Be With You Again
Two Solitudes
Fashion Fever
Sleepwalkers
Monday, 4 August 2025
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)
Monday, 7 July 2025
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
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, 5 May 2025
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
Monday, 7 April 2025
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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