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Lost & Found
After the kitsch triumph of their eponymous debut album from 1979 (which contained keynote track Rock Lobster) and its follow-up Wild Planet (1980), by 1983 Athens, Georgia, five-piece The B-52’s…
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: Crowded House – Crowded House
Don’t Dream It’s Over is a delicious pop song, an end-of-party, all-join-hands singalong, while its melancholic nostalgia for Australia gives it anthemic status Down Under. It’s one of numerous…
Lost & Found: Siouxsie And The Banshees – Tinderbox
Siouxsie and the Banshees were post-punk’s greatest exponents. Tinderbox allowed them to maintain the energy of their heyday while prove conclusively that times had changed. Their seventh LP had…
Lost & Found: The Darling Buds – Pop Said…
Look up “jangly” in the modern dictionary of pop idioms and you’re likely to see The Darling Buds. There was something inveterately cheerful about the Newport quartet – irrespective of…
Lost & Found: Paul Young – Between Two Fires
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: 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: 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…