The Blondie song that Debbie Harry says “really stands up”
“It was us being punk in the face of punk.”
From The Vault Archives: 12/2023
The song that “scared the shit out of” Taylor Hawkins
“Something in their voices sounded evil to me.”
Why Joni Mitchell painted her own album covers: “My songs are very visual”
“I am a painter who writes songs.”
Patti Smith names her “favourite songs that no one else has heard”
The punk poet laureate discusses some obscure favourites.
The musician that made Eddie Van Halen pick up a guitar: “His solos were melodic and memorable”
Inspired to step behind the fretboard.
The moment John Lennon realised he was a “genius”
The late Beatle regarded his most profitable attribute a curse.
The songs Jimmy Page took from The Yardbirds for Led Zeppelin
From bluesy rave-ups to mountainous rock.
The classic Rolling Stones song that they almost ruined: “It’s a very unpretentious groove”
It might not have been a hit.