“Figurehead anarchists”: When Pete Townshend out-drunk the Sex Pistols in 1977
“Rock ‘n’ roll’s going down the f***ing pan!”
From The Vault Archives: 05/2026
The 1969 The Who classic that Pete Townshend will always regret: “I’m embarrassed”
“I’m embarrassed. This sounds like a Music Hall song.”
The 2000 song that stopped Robert Smith from splitting up The Cure: “I was really disenchanted”
It could have been so different.
“The ultimate singer”: the band Billy Corgan thought nobody could compete with
The absolute peak of musicianship.
The best live band Chris Cornell had ever witnessed: “Different from anything”
The highest energy possible.
Why Bob Dylan deliberately tried to provoke audiences in 1979: “Make people jump on any level”
“People are so asleep.”
“We just played in the underground circuit: the genre closest to Kurt Cobain’s heart
“We just played in the underground circuit.”
