The band that made Eric Clapton break things off with John Mayall: “Be so free, you could go anywhere”
Breaking out.
From The Vault Archives: 04/2026
The 1993 song Paul McCartney wishes he’d written: “I thought that was a nice one”
It’s a surprise choice.
“Essential”: The 1980 show Siouxsie and the Banshees needed to play
In even the most literal sense of the word, Siouxsie and the Banshees were a wailing force against convention, epitomising the ritual that rules were…
The 1980 Police song Sting refused to play on: “He did bury the tape”
The jazzy song too strange for The Police frontman.
The curious room above a furniture shop in Birmingham that became the greatest club of the 1960s
‘Best Little Rock Club in the World’.
