The Jags : Back of My Hand [ purchase ]  One of the fun things about writing for this blog is that I never really know where the piece is...

Well, it's five years  since I, grudgingly it reads, gave this band any pentime, but, you know, time has been kind to their memory, a ne...

Thin Lizzy : The Boys Are Back In Town [ purchase ] Like many of the themes that we use on Star Maker Machine, this one came to me w...

Iron, actually, iron pyrites, but, given its name, not to say the myriad songs so entitled, hopefully quite worthy of a mention here. And cl...

Christine Lavin : Prisoners of Their Hairdos [ purchase ] My recent run of television-related posts would suggest a discussion of The ...

I should here state I generally, to my shame, disapprove of the idea of Thin Lizzy, their cocky swagger always offending my carefully nur...

Thin Lizzy: Hollywood [ purchase ] Seventies hard rock icons Thin Lizzy sound so americanized in songs like classic radio staple The Boys A...