If you are a fan of the Moody Blues, frankly, I would, in the words of their best song, (which they didn't even write) , Go Now , my...

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...

Well, this was a link-up too good to miss, Human League-r Phillip Oakey's Together in Electric Dreams with Giorgio Moroder, and, now...

purchase [ ole ELO compilation ] As should be expected for any band that has been around for that long, Electric Light Orchestra has b...

Magnolia Electric Co. : The Dark Don’t Hide It [ purchase ] Back in 2013, a few months after Jason Molina died at the age of 39, o...

Let's not forget the full glory of the title, not least as it is the how and why they happened to be together that underlines this pi...

Gary Numan/Tubeway Army : Are ‘Friends’ Electric? [ purchase ] I suggested this theme a while ago, and when it was finally chosen, my ...

Richard Hawley has a dark golden voice, built for solitude, a deep beacon of emotions dug deep from experience. A voice not always made for ...

purchase [ Nilsson Schmilsson ] I'm old enough that I remember when this was a hit ("before your mother was born..."?)....

King? So what ever happened to King? Here one moment, huge for a minute and then gone. Can you even remember them? Were they purely eurocent...

Al Green : Tired of Being Alone [ purchase ] I’ve already lost count of how long I’ve been stuck at home—the few times I've gone o...

John Hiatt is just terrific, one of the best, if not in sales, certainly in terms of influence and output, up there, in my book, with Neil Y...

Like most of us, I'm working from home these days, and generally am staying at home, except for the occasional trip for food or walk ...

purchase [ Alone Together ] Up until about 30 years ago, I had a 6-foot-long collection of 33 1/3 RPM LPs purchased between 1967 and 1...

Actually, I am neither isolating, much, nor even distancing a whole lot, bar maintaining the antisocial 2 metre rule. I am purportedly f...

In the Madness I'm going to stick with the sanity and sense delineation, not least as there is seeming so little about of late. An...

The Blues Brothers : Rubber Biscuit [ purchase ] If you knew that the original version of this song was released in 1956 by The Chips...

Of course there is nonsense and nonsense. It can vary from, at one extreme, merely that with which you disagree, through entertaining whimsy...