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Lost & Found
Paul Young’s tail was up in 1986. Now aged 30, engaged, wealthy and established; confidence was telling him to branch out from being mainly a covers artist. He co-wrote all…
Lost & Found: Shalamar – Three For Love
Shalamar were still two years away from a life-defining period of huge hit singles and innovative dance moves, but their 1980 album Three For Love set them on their way.…
Lost & Found: Rosie Vela – Zazu
Music student Rosie Vela seemed to work on the basis that a moving target is hardest to hit, so gave up her pop career after just one album… but what…
Lost & Found: Midge Ure – The Gift
A brilliant chorus and a newly- acquired global reputation as a humanitarian meant that Midge Ure couldn’t possibly fail with his signature single, If I Was, in the summer of…
Lost & Found: Hot Chocolate – Love Shot
Hot Chocolate were a classic example of the music snob’s contempt for an act that was far from cool but massively popular. Love Shot, the band’s eighth studio album, was…
Lost & Found: Bryan Adams – Into The Fire
Everyone knew someone who had a copy of Reckless, the huge breakthrough album by Bryan Adams that contained Run To You, Summer Of 69 and so on. Yet when he…
Lost & Found: Elton John – Leather Jackets
Elton John’s life troughed in the mid-80s, with a delinquent drug habit and a stodgy body of work. His 20th album, supposedly a milestone recording for him, remains the least…
Lost & Found: Nick Heyward – Postcards From Home
A doubt has always nagged about the British record-buying public that they took for granted one of the best writers of charming 80s pop, as Nick Heyward’s solo career only…
Lost & Found: Gatecrashing – Living In A Box
Living In A Box’s second album, released in 1989, is a much more polished, confident, layered follow-up to the eponymous debut that had gone unnoticed thanks to the total dominance…
Lost & Found: Trans – Neil Young
Even in the wildly disparate back catalogue of Neil Young, 1982’s Trans stands out like an electronic sore thumb. It was hugely controversial among his fans, as the Canadian singer-songwriter’s…