Pop sensation Pete Burns would have celebrated his 60th birthday today. The singer passed away in 2016 aged 57 after suffering cardiac arrest. Best known for Dead or Alive’s smash hit You Spin Me Round (Like A Record), the singer was notorious for playing with typical gender conventions and is seen by many as a pioneer of […]
Tags: Dead or Alive, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Burns, Stock Aitken Waterman
4 Aug 2019 /
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This Friday Connections Nightclub marks it’s 40 year history with the second of it’s Decadance parties. This time round ‘Electric Dreams‘ is celebrating the club’s second decade between 1985 – 1995. So what tunes were we really listening to in gay venues in the late 80’s? We headed into the archives to see what songs […]
Tags: 1980s, ABC, Bisexual, Connections Nightclub, Decadance, Electric Dreams, gay, Johnny Hates Jazz, Lesbian, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Modern Rocketry, music, Nitzer Ebb, Pet Shop Boys, Sinitta, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Communards, The Red Lion
3 Aug 2015 |
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This week for retro cassette Friday we reach into the milk crate of cassettes and pull out something from one of Madonna’s backing singers, a camp album from a British soapie star and a critically lauded album from a Glaswegian band. Donna Delory, Self Titled MCA Records,1992 Donna Delory is best known as one of […]
Tags: Adam Rickett, Andrea Corr, Donna Delory, Jewels and Stone, Madonna, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Blue Nile
28 Jun 2013 |
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Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco has died aged 63. The singer was battling cancer and passed away in Naples, Florida. Her family have released a statement saying they were, ‘are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy.’ The singer had huge success in the 1970’s and is often referred to as […]
Tags: Barbara Streisand, Donna Summer, Georgio Moroder, I Feel Love, Stock Aitken Waterman
17 May 2012 |
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