Tag: Sire (label)

1980s 45 rpm 7" Pop World music

Eclectic is the essence

Post author By Richard Evans
Post date October 29, 2017
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There is a lot of hostility to migrants and movement just now. Sometimes it is cloaked beneath talk of security. Increasingly it is rank bigotry. In the struggle against aggressive nativism, I offer … Sandii and the Sunsetz. Yes, really. Sandra O’Neale was the child of a Japanese mother and an American father, a Navy […]

Tags Hawaii, J-pop, Japan, Sandii and the Sunsetz, Sandra O'Neale, Sire (label), Sticky Music (song), The Mirror of Eyes (song), Yellow Magic Orchestra

1980s 45 rpm 7" LP Pop

No surname necessary

Post author By Richard Evans
Post date January 20, 2017
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Planet Vinyl welcomes and loves the obscure, the forgotten, the eccentric and the strange. But we do not discriminate. The best-selling female recording artist of all time? She too is welcome here. I speak of Madonna Louise Ciccone, born in the United States in 1958. By the time I was a teenager in the 1980s […]

Tags La Isla Bonita (song), Madonna, Sire (label)