‘The Tide Is High’: The only Blondie song Chris Stein knew was “going to be a hit”
“If we did a successful version of this thing, it would be successful.”
From The Vault Archives: 03/2024
‘Paranoid’: The Black Sabbath guitar solo Tony Iommi called “horrible”
The guitarist picks holes in one of his finest contributions.
The two greatest songs Lou Reed ever heard
“I fell down laughing. You can listen to that, you can listen to the words going on and it’s tremendous.”
The song Joni Mitchell wrote about David Geffen: “He begged me to take it off the record”
“Everybody’s in it for their own gain.”
Jackson Browne explains why David Crosby typified “egalitarian” counterculture
The more generous side of the music business.