After a gap of 45 years and a long career in fashion, original Siouxsie & The Banshees guitarist John McKay releases his first solo album of archive material.

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The Spinners – aka The Detroit Spinners – enjoyed their only UK number one in 1980, a quarter of a century after they first formed.

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Hackney girls Mel & Kim followed Britain’s first house single with the global chart-topper Respectable in 1987.

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Hothouse Flowers enjoyed their solitary big hit Don’t Go thanks to their exposure in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988.

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Roberta Flack sang two or three of the greatest and most ubiquitous songs in what you might call the Easy Listening Soul genre. But there was much more to her than that. A fantastic afro, for one thing; and the middle name Cleopatra for another… and this tune.

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Neil Young sat on his epic 1988 recording of Ordinary People for two decades before it finally came out on Chrome Dreams II in 2007.

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World Domination Enterprises never managed to live up to their ambitious name, but have been posthumously recognised as postpunk pioneers.

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Frida is the brunette from ABBA and I See Red is a song from her solo album back in 1982, produced by Phil Collins.

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The Clean were pioneers of New Zealand’s so-called Dunedin Sound, blending a punk influence with a bucolic brand of jangly psychedelia.

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Is this classic late-period disco? Or is it prototype ’80s dance-pop? Frankly, who cares when it sounds like this?!

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