15 Minutes
By: Nik Kershaw

Nik is one of those “aha!” artists. He had one or two modest hits (in the States) in the 80’s, and as it happens I was one of the few lucky ones that bought his album that had “Wouldn’t It Be Good” and another dozen great songs on it.

Actually, that’s not quite accurate. I was dumb enough to sign up for the Columbia Record “Club” in the 80’s, and I still have a bunch of dusty old cassettes kicking around in a box downstairs. There’s some great music in there, and I’ve been pondering for a while the possibilities of transfering my favorite old cassettes to CD.

While I was looking around on Amazon for Nik’s music I realized he had a new CD out. After reading the rapturous reviews, I think it might be a “must have.” I’ll order this after the holiday madness settles down.

I was originally looking for the CD version of my old tape, but what I had seems to be a compilation of Nik’s first two albums. How confusing. So I might go ahead and pop for that, too.

Pretty expensive considering I was just noodling around looking for something to listen to on iTunes.