The musical world Bono always wanted to live in: “They brought swagger back”
Everything you could ask for.
From The Vault Archives: 05/2026
“I was going to join Mott The Hoople”: The 1973 performance that almost destroyed Roxy Music
This is the end, beautiful friend.
The 1985 album Kate Bush worried she would never finish: “A lot of work”
The opus of maximum effort.
A knife, an eyeball and the childhood accident that shaped Ry Cooder: “Hallelujah! Thank God!”
“I kind of went into a tailspin.”
Shock rock surrealism: When Salvador Dalí turned Alice Cooper’s brain into a work of art
“But decadent brains / Were at work to destroy.”
The 1968 song that made Creedence Clearwater Revival the biggest band in America: “The best thing”
A shrewd key to success.
The greatest human being that Slash ever met: “One of the greatest mentors”
A troubadour with a heart of gold.