The personal song John Lennon called “nasty”
Protective distance.
From The Vault Archives: 04/2024
“It stuck with me”: the heartbreaking regret at the centre of The Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’
“I said something wrong…”
John Lennon once explained how ‘Help!’ was a precursor to Batman
From the streets of Liverpool to Gotham City.
‘Songs of Faith and Devotion’: the Depeche Mode album that “scared” Brandon Flowers
“I didn’t understand the beauty of it.”
The musician Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter called “Van Gogh in a rock band”
“He has great difficulty in living.”
‘I’ll Be Seeing You’: The unique power of Billie Holiday’s vocals
Lady Day and the definitive version of ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’.
Paul Simon explains how musical evolution resulted in his most complex song
“If the song is beautiful then it lasts.”
