Random Thoughts While Waiting for the American Idol Contestants to Start Singing: -It's amazing how four judges can combine to say absolutely nothing in the show open.

One of the best things about being a rock star is that you don't have to stay in shape to be successful. You can be skinny and scrawny like Jimmy Page and Flavor Flav

Almost everyone owns an Ipod, or some other form of music listening device, that we can thank to the benefits of the changes in music technology. If we were to consider however how the "music" itself has changed due to technology,

The Human League, ABC, A Flock Of Seagulls and Dead Or Alive are planning another British invasion of America this summer with a little help from Belinda Carlisle and Naked Eyes. The six '80s acts are teaming up for the inaugural Regeneration Tour, which will begin in Phoenix, Arizona on August 1st.

A quarter century after the premiere of MTV at 12:01 a.m., on August 1, 1981, the cataclysmic changes brought about by the first decade of the video revolution are continuing to be seen and heard in the music of today's twenty-somethings' artists. Celebrating Bangles, Loverboy, Eddie Money, and Scandal (all on Columbia/ Legacy), Bow Wow Wow and Rick Springfield (on RCA/Legacy), and A Flock Of Seagulls (on Jive/Legacy), the first seven We Are The '80s collections arrived in stores on July 18.

Rick Springfield has joined a string of 1980s hitmakers for a U.S. tour because he's determined to give music fans a nostalgic break from the modern world. The singer features on the new "We Love The '80s" revue, which also includes the Bangles, Bow Wow Wow and Flock Of Seagulls, and he insists it's important that acts from "the last safe decade" remind fans of better days.