HOME POPSTROLOGY 101 WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? THE ORIGINS OF POPSTROLOGY ABOUT THE AUTHOR CONTACT US Start        Birth Years        Birthstars        Constellations It started with the pairing of Nancy and Frank Sinatra on Somethin' Stupid-the first instance in the popstrological era of freestanding pop stars reaching the top of the pop charts while joined in a short-lived entity known as a Power Couple. But if you figured in 1966 that this new phenomenon was merely cute and clever, and that it would never lead to anything more disturbing or dysfunctional than a father-daughter duet about unrequited love, you were very wrong indeed. For in the decades that followed, and particularly in the 1980s, ad hoc conglomerations of promiment pop stars became a powerful force of evil as often as they became a powerful force of good. If popstrology had existed as a formal science back in 1982, perhaps the world could have been warned of the dangerous forces that can be unleashed when a star like Paul McCartney is allowed to collide with a star of roughly equal stature, but perhaps the world would not have listened. All popstrology can do now is point out that for every Don't Go Breaking My Heart that emanated from the constellation Power Couple, there was also an Ebony and Ivory, and for every Minor star that emerged from a Power Couple none the worse for wear (Kiki Dee, Jennifer Warnes), there is a long list of Massive stars who were either damaged beyond recognition (Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson) or who never emerged at all (Neil Diamond, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin). RELATIONSHIP ISSUES Who could have predicted that Stevie Wonder's alliance with Paul McCartney would cost him his Soul, or that Paul McCartney's alliance with Michael Jackson would cost him his publishing rights? No one, perhaps, but that's sort of the whole point. Who can predict the outcome of any relationship, even those that seem like such brilliant ideas on paper? Certainly no one should try to predict the outcome of a relationship involving a child of the constellation Power Couple, for while the alliances such a person forms are almost always, well, powerful, the consequences of that power are almost impossible to foresee. ©2004 All rights reserved. "Popstrology" is a trademark of Ian Van Tuyl. Buy the Book at...