Why did Nile Rodgers refuse to work with Aretha Franklin?
A failed collaboration.
From The Vault Archives: 06/2023
David Bowie and The Angel: A meeting of minds in a Swiss psychiatric hospital
“He just introduced me to the outside things.”
The song that shaped Sharon Van Etten’s music
“Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly.”
In conversation: Beck and Tom Waits on the nature of influence: “Where does this ‘best’ thing come from?”
“Is that human? Is that American? Is it all over the world?”
The “spiritual” punk record that changed Flea’s life forever
“It just changed the way I look at music forever.”
Little Richard on a Broken Leg: How rock ‘n’ roll was smuggled into Russia
The subversive art of smuggling.