Paul Carrack : Lesson In Love   [ purchase ]  Of course, the musically knowledgeable readers of Star Maker Machine know who Paul Carrack i...

purchase [ greenbaum ] I was on a Lufthansa flight this past week where the film offerings included a bunch of films I'd alre...

purchase [ Live and Let Die ] Now ... guns aren't knives but they have the potential to inflict the same kind of mayhem. Of cours...

Shhh, can you hear that? No, me neither. Not even the sound of a dropped 'H' is assailing my ears. Which is nice, if sort of lonely....

Elton John w/ Stillwater : Tiny Dancer [ purchase ] By conceit and definition, Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical timepi...

Or what my wife calls slidy steel. Too obvious, too literal? Well maybe, but I cannot let this pass, the instrument being my favourite music...

purchase [ Love Lies Bleeding ] Back in the early 70s, I just about wore out the grooves listening to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road . (...

Randy Reer/Drakytown: Candle in the Wind [ download free from SoundCloud] You have to dig beyond the first few pages of Google li...

Elton John : Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher [ purchase ] Here's a no-brainer for Songs Banned At The Mall, because we all know that ...

Elton John: This Song Has No Title [purchase] I've mentioned elsewhere that I have mixed feelings for Elton John. I think he has put o...

We've already had two posts on red shoes (Loretta Lynn's Little Red Shoes and Elvis Costello's Red Shoes ), but there are plent...

Elton John : Amoreena [ purchase ] Lost, somewhere in the seventies - mom has two records in constant rotation at the Humphries household; C...

Elton John & Kiki Dee: Don't Go Breaking My Heart [ purchase ] I feel kind of bad putting up this song, after all the wide-...