The 1956 song Bruce Springsteen couldn’t live without: “Hit me like a thunderbolt”
His childhood hero.
From The Vault Archives: 07/2026
The one guitarist Jimmy Page called the most perfect: “He always played right”
The best musical listener.
The 1962 album Billy Joel and Don Henley called the greatest: “That changed my life”
The most natural singing ever.
The 1960s singer Bruce Springsteen said was out of everyone’s league: “He did something nobody else did”
The pure sounds of loneliness.
The wildest guitarist in rock, according to Brian May: “A magnificent thing”
The musical animal being let out.
The one composer Roger Waters doesn’t want to think about: “Life’s too long”
Being happier without him in his life.
The 1939 song Ian Anderson called the beginnings of rock: “It planted a seed of things to come”
“Perhaps it planted a seed of things to come.”
The singer Elton John and David Crosby agreed is the best: “The greatest who ever lived”
The voice of an angel.