I bought this for €3 at a brocante knowing absolutely nothing about Mari Wilson. The cover had me expecting something from the 1940s, 50s or 60s, but when the needle…
I’d always filed a-ha under Take On Me: massive song, iconic video, job done. Then my wife brought home a free, battered old library copy of Scoundrel Days and completely…
I bought this £1.95 charity-shop LP because I thought “Merseybeats” meant a compilation of Liverpool beat bands. It turned out to be an actual band, a set of 1977 stereo…