The “infantile” TV show that inspired a Billy Joel song
“It wasn’t very rock and roll, and it started to bother me.”
From The Vault Archives: 10/2023
The Green Day album Billie Joe Armstrong called his “fat Elvis period”
Losing his punk edge over time.
The Van Halen album the band were initially disappointed in
The album that never sounded quite right.
Did the CIA help write the Scorpions song ‘Wind of Change’?
The conspiracy behind a classic power ballad.
Tom Waits describes his “most thrilling musical experience”
Waits chose a rather ordinary experience.
The ABBA song Haim called “arguably one of the best songs ever written”
HAIM also drew inspiration from Lou Reed for ‘Summer Girl’.
‘This Woman’s Work’: The Kate Bush song that became an anthem of social and political injustice
Bush is a known pioneer of creating mass anthemic hits.
