“I didn’t even know what I was playing”: how Simon and Garfunkel stumbled into a 1968 classic
The track reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
From The Vault Archives: 05/2026
The 1968 masterpiece that Ray Davies called The Kinks “death wish”
“Maybe it’s an artistic death wish.”
“Dropped it like a fucking turd”: The 2006 release that nearly drove Elton John away from music entirely
“It was pure heartbreak.”
The one genre Phil Collins called the soundtrack of his life: “The music I lived my life to”
The perfect genre for him.
The 1980 song that Tom Jones said was too “perfect” to cover
Jones was offered the chance to make it his own.
