Category: Precious Pop Pearls

There are songs that you immediately recognize from the first piano notes, and there are songs whose title still echoes through offices and classrooms on Monday mornings many

In the summer of 1989, the same childish chorus could be heard from radios all over the world. Step by step, heart to heart, left, right, left. What

There are songs that do not merely soundtrack an era, but also change it a little. “Buffalo Stance” by Neneh Cherry is one such song. When it was

There are songs that you recognise immediately from the first few seconds, and ‘It’s Raining Men’ is a textbook example of that. The bombastic intro, the reverberating thunderclap,

Some pop songs do not only exist within their own time, but also actively respond to the history of music that came before them. “Major Tom (Coming Home)”

Some songs seem inseparably linked to a particular era. They capture a feeling that remains recognisable decades later. “The Promise You Made” by Cock Robin belongs to that

In January 1983, a single was released that stormed to the top of the British charts within three weeks. The opening note, a sustained tone by singer Limahl

There are songs you hear once and never forget. Then there are songs you hear, find slightly annoying at first, and yet still end up singing years later

In the 1970s, pop music was changing at a furious pace. Genres began to merge, the boundaries between rock, soul, funk and early disco blurred, and the audience

There are records that sum up an era without even knowing it. “A Lover’s Holiday” by Change is one such record. Released in the spring of 1980, at