The 1965 Kinks song Paul McCartney wishes he had written: “I should have made that” “You bastard!” Lauren Hunter Jun 22, 2026
‘A Love Supreme’: What is the perfect entry point into jazz music? A perfect album… Ben Forrest Jun 22, 2026
“My all-time favourite”: the artist Gordon Lightfoot modelled his career on The guiding light. Lauren Hunter Jun 22, 2026
“Definitely better”: the two fraught years LCD Soundsystem spent making their masterpiece Painstaking. Lauren Hunter Jun 22, 2026
“We were at a crossroads”: the 1999 hit Debbie Harry said America never embraced An unusual misfire? Reuben Cross Jun 22, 2026
David Byrne never liked Max’s Kansas City: “We don’t fit in here” A scary place. Reuben Cross Jun 22, 2026
‘American Pie’: a 1971 song of three deaths and three million more “Holly’s plane crash in 1959 foreshadowed a series of deaths”. Tom Taylor Jun 22, 2026
The two Beatles songs that changed Steely Dan’s mind about rock ‘n’ roll A defining moment. Tom Taylor Jun 21, 2026
The tracks Bruce Springsteen considered the “great American songbook of the 1960s and ’70s” Classic songs. Dale Maplethorpe Jun 21, 2026
The Don Henley solo song the Eagles used to make a political statement: “I applaud them” The resistance. Callum MacHattie Jun 21, 2026
The insult that helped create a 1973 Aerosmith classic “I didn’t know anything.” Dale Maplethorpe Jun 21, 2026
How Joe Walsh saved Led Zeppelin with an act of charity: “The Les Paul he calls Number One” How very kind. Dale Maplethorpe Jun 21, 2026