Translated (or, in some cases, transliterated) from the German.
Original text found here:
http://www.le-musterkoffer.de/alpha/toniok01.html

Today I load you to a journey into completely the Unhippe, Unmodi,
old-fashioned one. I offer today gloss and misery of the skirt music
by the example of a man, its debut album to you as "beste plate of
all Zeiten" praised is, by the Rolling Stone 5 stars lent got at that
time and its Zweitling was not many worse: If you become acquainted
with again, meet again Steve Krikorian alias Tonio K. Krikorian
sounds Armenian; Krikorian is also Armenian. Steves grandfather was
emigriert into the USA, its father fought then already as a good
American bomber pilot against Hitler Germany; Steve as
representatives of the 3. Krikorian generation in America was born in
April 1949, a classical baby boom he class. The Krikorians lived in
different California cities, last in Fresno, in an Armenian
Neigbourhood, there Steves school fellows Orman, Shapazian or
Mesorobian was called obvious. Under Steves guidance was gebueffelt
industriously American mythology, approximately by as
naturalistisches a placing of the pc. as possible Valentin's behind
Day of massacre, but there still more must have been, an obsession
with European spirit and literature history, or as otherwise one can
explain oneself it that the grandchild of Armenian immigrants its The
Rake's progress calls first volume, probably after Strawinskys opera
of 1951, perhaps also after their old literary Schelmenroman
collecting mains from England. 1973 made Steve Krikorian its first
professional photographs as a musician; he became a singer of the
Crickets, the Begleitband Buddy Hollys and represented the
unsterblichen, but dead superstar on two LPs. after the time as
replacement Buddy Holly Steve Krikorian from of Thomas's man Oeuvre
selected itself, shortened its TONIO KROEGER as age Ego the name to
Tonio K and went into the studio... When Tonio Ks debut LIFE IN THE
appeared FOODCHAIN 1978, the rezensent in the opinion leader sheet at
that time sound did not kriegte itself any longer; it was called
corresponding there, one had believed, plates like these had not been
any longer made. At that time, between the Muehlsteinen Disco and
super+'s group progressive skirt with Punk on the horizon, was
called: Here completely an unknown quantity musician from California
redeems the halfforgotten promise that there could be straighte skirt
music, those in a sound up-to-date, but without fashionable Attituede
its voice raises and stories told, without sounding like a laughter
number. LIFE IN THE FOODCHAIN was the little plate, which one would
have up to then always wished oneself of Bruce Springsteen, or of
Dylan or of the Stones, a plate, which showed that skirt music was
not dead.

Two decades later LIFE is IN THE FOODCHAIN still a good LP. The long,
eloquent pieces speak a musical like contentwise language, which can
be still understood; the occasionally politically unkorrekten and
often enough misogynic texts disturb against it today rather. One and
man must interpret her differently: when part of a perfect
Rock`n`Roll monster, ungelenk and with ideological
gleichgewichtsstoerungen torquing ELT, which does not have answers,
each quantity of questions and more attitude than depth. The monster
is large, but in the internal one an uncertain child, an unstable
creature of the American century, which looks for a form for its fear
and its aggression. And is the comparison with Bruce Springsteen was
most obvious, the at the same time straight for the jump
of "naechsten Dylan" to the Heroen of the American nation set. How
stimmig this comparison was, shows a Ballade from the 1980er LP
AMERICA... Where however Bruce Springsteen was that all american
Simplicius Simplicissimus, in order to remain with Schelmenromanen,
Steve Krikorian remained alias Tonio K to the Zynismus of bending
intellectual with somehow foreign roots, which spoke of Dadaismus, of
the Cabaret Voltaire, of Hugo ball and Kurt Schwitters and in
addition Garth Hudson of The volume, thickly Dale, Earl Slick and
Albert Lee in the studio got itself. How all musicians of the late
70's, which did not fit into a certain format, Tonio K was considered
somehow as Punk or new Wave, although of both little was to be heard.
Earliest one can bring Tonio to K still with power Pop groups such as
The crack or The Cars in connection. Notoriously Tonio Ks Live Shows
must have been in the Whiskey A GoGo to Los Angeles, where paper
masks were spent, ring fights with material queues took place and to
the text line "the tables have turned" all tables to be turned had.
Gladly also guitars were demoliert: Tonio K is to still possess 200
broken off guitar necks. But which happened then? All what made Tonio
Ks music and texts so special, is 1986 thread, approves of and
suesslichen musi kPa mdu yielded, in which as hochkaraetige friends
participated again and again as t-Bone Burnette or Charlie Sexton,
however nevertheless nothing more in common has with the Tonio K of
the first two plates. Now, Steve Krikorian found the way back to its
Christian faith, the erring up of the HIPPI times and the Rock`n`Roll
Lifestyles gave. After the 82er EP LA BOMBA he tried to find a label
for photographs with the ironical title TOO COOL TON of A CHRISTIAN,
but only 1986 comes out the enormousnesses on a Sub label of A&M,
belonged evenly.

The company existed however not for a long time and to ROMEO
UNCHAINED thereupon acted of a Christian selling, was to be gotten
thus more easily in religiously oriented book shops or in the
Christian versandhandel than in the record business around the
corner. At the same time Tonio K married a Lindy Myers and changed
themselves in its texts from the proven Misogynen to the advocate of
the conjugal loyalty and the eternal love. Tonio K may have become
for Rock'n'Roll-Massstaebe a virtueful contemporary; its Christian
business partner was Tonio Ks topics still too politically, the word
choice too directly and the beginning altogether too liberally. After
the 1988 published NOTES FROM THE CIVILISATION - obviously already
endeavors in the title to tie to the debut - Tonio K DRAWS was fired,
which censors religious version of the plate, and which was an artist
again fully and completely with A&M: Afterwards regarded the LP was
not an expressed disaster such as ROMEO UNCHAINED, but the true
potential of a Tonio K was never exhausted, also not the
possibilities of its fellow combatants t-Bone Burnette, Booker T,
Peter Case, Jim Keltner, David Miner, Charlie Sexton or James
Jamerson from Bob Dylans volume. 1990 took up Tonio K the next plate,
title OLÉ. However OLÉ was not published; Alpert and Moss had
verhoekert their label to the Polygram; those dismissed all Acts with
sales figures under 50,000 pieces, under it also Tonio K, which
thereupon after Austin and its money twisted from now on as
Songschreiber for other earned. Only 1997 acquired the Vermonter
Gadfly label the OLÉ volumes of the Polygram and brought the CD out
with seven years delay. Tonio K seems to regard the CD rather as
acoustic catalog for its Songwriter activity; each song is
commentated as in a department store catalog, depending on for
example DAY & NIGHT alias PARDON ME FOR LIVING, the same piece with
arrangement and text, changed in each case, which artist wants to use
it which commercial rail it. So the history of Steve Krikorian is
alias Tonio K the ideal-typical history of the American baby Boomer:
with condemns high expectations begun and quite herb heruntergekommen.