The night Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck played in the same band: “Jumping all over the place”
Little-known music history.
From The Vault Archives: 03/2024
Plane Crashes, Death and Paralysis: The tragic history of Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd
The wounds that would never heal.
A stranger in a strange land: the Rush song inspired by Alex Lifeson’s dreams
A strange place for inspiration.
The Covered Uncovered: The freezing beans and suit-baiting of ‘The Who Sell Out’
Did The Who really sell out? Read all about the story behind their famous 1967 album cover, from beans by the bathful to XXL deodorant.
The Right Mood: the song Rick Rubin called “a perfect moment in time”
The essence of a live performance.
From first solos to collaborations: The guitarist Bruce Springsteen labelled “spectrally beautiful”
A real moment of reflection.
“No reverb”: the Bob Dylan album that inspired the sound of Steely Dan
One of his ultimate offerings.
Pete Townshend’s scathing indictment of AC/DC: “All their albums were the same”
Not enough originality to go around.
