What's the link that holds this selection of songs together? Well it's colours. Starting off with Alannah Myles, and a big hit for her (her only hit, I think), this is “Black velvet”.
Would it be cheating to put Yello in? Yeah, it would. Instead, here's Joni Mitchell, with “Big yellow taxi”. We don't take the easy way out here, you know!
Must be thousands of songs with blue in the title, so let's avoid the obvious and go for New Order, eh?
And what about this one from Billy Ocean, “Red light spells danger”...
I'm tempted to run “White Christmas”, but I'm old and can't run that fast (!) so how about “White wedding” instead, by Billy Idol?
Not too many songs with purple in the title, so I guess “Purple rain” can be forgiven, if a little obvious.
Green turned out to be harder than expected, but I finally settled on “Green eyes” by Nick Cave.
For pink I went with the Boss...
Violet Femmes? Now you're just pushin' it! Let's try “In the navy” --- nah, just kidding! Here's “Fade to grey” by Visage.
And our last colour (man, this was
hard!) is brown, so let's have the Stones take this one.