“If we worked on it, we would ruin it”: The one song Genesis decided not to “overblow”
The prog-rockers were aware of their tendency to overcook songs.
From The Vault Archives: 06/2024
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong discusses “the most honest record” he ever made
“Trying to cut off the bullshit.”
Judy Collins was the first person to hear Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr Tambourine Man’
“I sat for two hours in front of this blue door…”
The classic song Mama Cass and Michelle Phillips hated: “That’s the most pretentious song I have ever heard”
The difficulty of band democracy.
Neil Peart once revealed the “ambitious” bands that inspired Rush to create ‘2112’
“The example of others who came before.”
“The be-all, end-all”: The two bands Noel Gallagher modelled Oasis on
“Where it starts and where it finishes.”
“A small room in Gerrard Street”: The first-ever Led Zeppelin jam session
“I remember the little room.”
The songwriter Jack Black calls a genius: “He wrote the most heartbreaking, beautiful songs”
A poignant memory from Hollywood’s most rock ‘n’ roll actor.
Stevie Nicks on the one person who “pulled me out of the depths of darkness”
A crucial mediator for Fleetwood Mac.