On May 17, 1986, a new song began a three week run at Number One on the Billboard “Hot 100”: “Greatest Love of All” (video up top) by Ame...

Maybe fortune favours the bold, as the saying goes, but maybe it’s simply persistence that wins the day. I’d like to think so, anyway. Bac...

Forty years ago this week, on May 10, 1986, “West End Girls” (video up top) by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys went to Number One. T...

April may be “the cruellest month” in the Northern Hemisphere, but here downunder it’s in the middle month of autumn—no longer summer, but ...

Back again with another Number One from 1986: Forty years ago this week, on May 3, 1986, “Addicted to Love” (video up top) by English sin...

Time again for another Number One from 1986: Forty years ago this week, on April 19, 1986, “Kiss” (video up top) by American musician (et...

AmeriNZ Podcast episode 424, “A changed holiday weekend”, is now available from the podcast website . There, you can listen, download or ...

Today is the final day of the four-day holiday weekend for Easter. I’ve talked about these holidays, and thier oddities, many times, but thi...

Here we go again: New Zealand just changed their clocks again, this time back one hour to New Zealand Standard Time (NZST). All of mainland ...