Roy Bookbinder: Delia [ YouTube link ] Purchase: [ Roy Bookbinder: Delia ] Almost nobody knows this musician and that is a pity...

NOTE: I have been required to remove the download link to "Come On Eileen".  I'm sure you can find it if you want to. I’m...

Phil Collins : In The Air Tonight [ purchase ] If Phil Collins had disappeared from the face of the earth at the end of 1981, this art...

Buy! Anything. Other retailers are available Accusations of April foolery around my last piece, within which I feinted off Chris de Bu...

    Zappa Play Zappa: Peaches En Regalia [ purchase FZ version ] I must have been introduced to Frank Zappa in the early 70s. Alth...

[Purchase] From 1965 to 1970, from "Shakin' All Over" (#22, 1965) to "American Woman" (#1, 1970) , The ...

OK, bit of a high hurdle here. Who, many be be asking, necessitating in me biting down hard on my tongue, hissing out, you know,  that L...

World Party : Ship of Fools [ purchase ] The second Star Maker Machine theme was perversely, “ My First ,” and it was designed to have...

Click the pic above (or the link  at the bottom/below) for the music [Purchase song @ amazon: El Rayo X ] Like JDavid, I am a rela...

Blimey, fab historical bio below, enjoyed that. Me, too, I 'm a newbie of not even 12 months standing, tho' my anniversary mu...

The Velvet Underground : Sunday Morning [ purchase ] I’ve only been writing for Star Maker Machine for a little more than two years, b...

On this date in 2008, a blog formerly known as "Six Songs" was renamed "Star Maker Machine."  Here's the first ...

The Ramones : Sheena is a Punk Rocker [ purchase ] A bit of a cheat here, because the theme reference is to an album title, not a song...

Rammstein: Moskau [ purchase ] Reveling in gritty imagery, fiery demonstrations of power, and constantly overt sexuality, Ramms...

Yes: " Siberian Khatru " [ Purchase ] During my junior high and high school years in the late '70s and early '80s, I b...

Enlivened by the extension of this theme a further week, I decided to investigate a truism, at least on this side of the sea, that being...

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Iveroni : Iveroni [ purchase ] The Republic of Georgia was in the headlines in 2008, and it wasn't in regards to their...