SOTD...

"Born To Run" was released in 1975 and became the breakthrough single for Bruce Springsteen. Since then The Boss has sold more then 120 million albums, won 20 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is still going strong at 62, releasing a new album next month and about to go on a massive world tour.

There are a lot of tracks I love from him and "Born To Run" is one of them. This live version from 1988 is absolutely amazing:

Fill Us...

Erasure will release 'Fill Us With Fire' as the third single from their 'Tomorrow's World' album on March 12th as an eight-track CD and digital download. 'Fill Us With Fire' will be released internationally as the third single from 'Tomorrow's World' with the exception of Germany who will be releasing 'A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot' as their single via download only.

TRACKLISTING


* The German download single will use the album version of 'A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot' instead of the single mix of 'Fill Us With Fire'.



Their last single, "Be With You" is currently on it's way up the US club chart, reaching a new peak at #7 this week.





There will also be two new Erasure releases next month - although not exactly an essential ones if you already own their catalog...

Erasure - Essential (CD Album)

CD Tracklisting

1. Who Needs Love (Like That)
2. It Doesn't Have To Be
3. The Circus
4. You Surround Me
5. Am I Right?
6. Sometimes
7. When Will I See You Again
8. Video Killed The Radio Star
9. Victim Of Love
10. Ship Of Fools
11. Star
12. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
13. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
14. Chorus
15. Always
16. I Love Saturday

Format: CD Album
Release Date: 19/03/2012
Barcode: 5099964401928

Erasure - Classic Albums - The Circus / The Innocents (2 x CD album)
On 19th March 2012 the EMI Gold Classic Albums range brings an Erasure 2xCD set - The Circus / The Innocents. Featuring all songs from the 2 albums, the package comes as a bargain price of £5.95!
Available for pre-order now, for the release date of Monday, 19th March 2012.
CD One: The Circus

1. It Doesn’t Have To Be
2. Hideaway
3. Don't Dance
4. If I Could
5. Sexuality
6. Victim Of Love
7. Leave Me To Bleed
8. Sometimes
9. The Circus
10. Spiralling
11. In The Hall Of The Mountain King
12. Sometimes (12" Mix)
13. It Doesn't Have To Be (Boop Oopa Doo Mix)

CD Two: The Innocents (Remastered)

1. A Little Respect
2. Ship Of Fools
3. Phantom Bride
4. Chains Of Love
5. Hallowed Ground
6. Sixty-Five Thousand
7. Heart Of Stone
8. Yahoo!
9. Imagination
10. Witch In The Ditch
11. Weight Of The World
12. When I Needed You (Melancholic Mix)
13. River Deep, Mountain High (Private Dance Mix)

Title: Erasure - Classic Albums - The Circus / The Innocents
Release Date: 19th March 2012
Packaging: 2 CD Set
Barcode: 5099955909327
Cat No: G5590932

Fill Us With Fire (Single Mix)* / Shot To The Heart (previously unavailable on CD) / Fill Us With Fire (Gareth Jones Extended 'Fired Up' Remix) / A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot – (Wayne G & Andy Allder Atlantis Anthem) / Fill Us With Fire – (JRMX Remix) / A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot – (XOQ Remix) / Fill Us With Fire – (Liam Keegan Remix) / Be With You – (Yiannis Unruly Remix)

To Cheer Us Up...

Today I felt the urge to post something truly tacky! So, witness and enjoy these two performances from the Dutch 80s TV show Pin Up Club!





(Please rest assured that despite the name of the second "group", it has nothing to do with yours truly)

38...

In only it's second week on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, Madonna's Give Me All Your Lovin' bolts from No. 13 to No. 10, becoming Her Majesty's record 38th U.S. Top Ten single.

Madonna breaks her own record of 37 Top Tens; Elvis Presley is in second place with 36 Top Ten hits, the Beatles in third place with 34. The latest Madonna single sold a stellar 165,000 digital downloads in the past week.
 
As a nice bonus, The "Glee" rendition of Madonna's 1987 classic La Isla Bonita enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 99, underscoring the love for this track a quarter century after its initial release.

You can download the latest Madonna radio interwiew on the Bert show here

I Love Me Some Her...

Toni Braxton is relasing a new album this year. It will be the follow up to the fantastic Pulse album from 2010, which finally made me a big Toni fan. The new album will be produced by her longtime working partner L.A. Reid and should be released in May.

An uptempo track from the album will be released as a single next month. The song is called "I Heart You" and Toni is currently working on a video for the track. Can't wait!

Tracks...

Time of for some of the recent tracks that I love. And we start with the comeback of the one true queen of pop!

Yes, Madonna is back. And after her head turning, breathtaking, record braking and just allaround FABULOUS performance at the SuperBowl, the whole world knows it!

The first song from her forthcoming album MDNA is IMO certanly not one of her best. But it is still quite good, and works well as a "general public" single. I am personally (along with many of her longtime fans)hoping for some more solid music on the album - but in the meantime, I am of course giving the queen all my love! (The video is FAB)



From the queen of pop, we move to The Boss! People always seem surprised when they find out that I am a Bruce Springsteen fan, but the truth is that I have been a fan of his for as long as I can remember. He is back with an excellent new single, he is releasing a new album and about to go on yet another massive tour.



Another singer I really like is Leonard Cohen. He is now 77 years old, but just released a massive new album. "Old Ideas" charted at #1 in countries such as Belgium, Norway, Poland, Hungary, Netherlands and Finland, at #2 in the UK, Australia and Sweden and at #3 in the US. Here is beautiful track from the album:



Yet another legend - Amanda Lear has just released an album that both fans and critics are calling "her best album in more then 30 years". While I still havent gotten my hands on a copy, judging from this song I am pretty sure I agree! This is the first music video the diva appears in since "I Just Wanna Dance" back in 2002. And she looks fabulous!



I rarely like it when people cover Madonna songs - let alone when they cover my very favourite one! "La Isla Bonita" has been covered many many times before, and never really to my liking. And while I cant say I love the version Ricky Martin has done for Glee, it is still a lot better then I would have expected - the song suits his voice pretty well. Still - Madonna owns this song! (And Glee is still on the air??)



And finally: a fabulous new single and video from Gloria Estefan, taken from her album Miss Little Havana. The track has already topped both the Latin and the Club charts in the US. The video pays an homage to one of my favorite films of all time too - have a look:

Congratulations!...

Diana Ross received her well deserved Lifetime Achivement Grammy Award on Saturday. She looked beautiful and gave a short speech which included a very welcomed tidbit!



Amazingly, this is the first time she has EVER won a Grammy, although she has received a lot of nominations through the years. It is about bloody time then!



News about the death of Whitney Houston broke out just after the ceremony. A very visibly emotional Diana showed up at the Pre-Grammy Gala in the evening and spoke about her reaction.






















On Grammy night, Diana presented the award for Album Of The Year. The winner was Adele, whose reactions were like a drag parody! (Oh, and I wonder: does Rihanna actually think she looks good?)