‘Daughter’: The Pearl Jam song about the tragedy of dyslexia
The darker side of the alternative anthem.
From The Vault Archives: 12/2023
The “most talented musician” Dave Grohl has ever worked with
“Perfect pitch, perfect time, perfect placement, perfect playing.”
How the Tibetan Book of the Dead inspired John Lennon
“Round about this time people were starting to experiment with drugs.”
The Pink Floyd song Nick Mason described as “almost punk”
The track derives from the Syd Barrett era.
The rock genre Joe Elliott hated: “They missed the point”
Missing the boat of the original movement.
Aretha Franklin on the song that became “a mantra for the civil rights movement”
“Perhaps what people could not say, the record said it for them.”