“Boogie bass”: The musician who inspired Christine McVie’s piano playing
“That’s stayed with me throughout all my songwriting years.”
From The Vault Archives: 05/2024
Tom Morello’s favourite guitarist of all time: “Genius”
“He’s the greatest hard rock guitar player of all time.”
Ringo Starr on the greatest song John Lennon wrote for him: “I miss the guy”
One of the peaks of his solo work.
The Nirvana song that destroyed Kurt Cobain’s voice: “He sang so hard”
From emotional to physical pain.
The lyric Ray Davies wishes he had written: “It resonated with my childhood”
The Kinks frontman unearths some nostalgic lyrics.
The album Eric Clapton considered overrated: “I found it all overblown”
Not as important as you think.
Stewart Copeland names the best song to learn drums: “Trickier than it looks”
The beginnings of rock and roll drums.
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’: the song Sinéad O’Connor wrote about U2
“I didn’t like their records. I used to make ash-trays out of them.”
