The Green Day song Billie Joe Armstrong was scared to perform: “I had to pound a beer backstage”
The epitome of punk selling out.
From The Vault Archives: 05/2024
Who plays the guitar on the most songs by The Beatles?
Does he gently weep, play yer blues or go back to the top of the slide?
“Why do I hate it?”: Paul Simon muses on the fate of a Simon and Garfunkel classic
Not as memorable as he would have hoped.
The musician Van Morrison claimed would outlive us all: “He changed music”
Channeling music from his heart and soul.
Bruce Springsteen on the best guitarist he has worked with: “One of the most overqualified in the business”
“Ten times better than me”
“It was so disgusting”: when Eddie Van Halen was racist to Nirvana’s Pat Smear
Never meet your heroes.
Barking up the wrong tree: the song Christine McVie secretly wrote about her affair
Deceit and appreciation of furry friends.
The moment Noel Gallagher claimed Blur went too far: “I’ve lost all respect for them”
Burning bridges you can’t rebuild.
