An influential icon: The “coolest” musician Paul McCartney has ever met
He’s met everyone.
From The Vault Archives: 04/2024
The only Jefferson Airplane song about drugs, according to Grace Slick
“We were not saying ‘why don’t you guys all go out and take drugs?’”
The one song Slash thought represented Guns N’ Roses best: ‘What the band is all about’
The perfect combination of hard rock badassery.
The Jam song that Paul Weller labelled “a piss-take”
“The whole song is a comment or piss-take, whatever way you look at it.”
Bono on his favourite Van Morrison song: “We love you, maestro”
Words that hit you right in your soul.
The only three albums Chrissie Hynde carried from America when she left home
The records that birthed a punk icon.
‘India’: The Psychedelic Furs’ satire of The Beatles’ hippie revolution
“You will cry a thousand tears.”
Drug busts, pistols, and a decaying romantic rebel: David Crosby’s very own lost weekend
“He was abusing his nostrils.”
The punk band Henry Rollins compared to The Beatles: “Those guys could really play!”
“I mean those guys could really play.”