The Fleetwood Mac album Christine McVie never showed up for: “Watching it all fall apart”
Didn’t bother coming around the studio.
From The Vault Archives: 04/2024
“You could drop dead”: The drugged-out music video Stevie Nicks finds hard to watch
A struggle with addiction.
Appropriation or Alchemy: Was Led Zeppelin the most heavily plagiarising classic rock band?
The theft behind the classic hits.
From Morrissey to Ramone: Five artists who shared their dislike for the Cure
From New Order to Paul Weller.
The “very personal” song Eric Clapton struggled to record: “Went through five incarnations”
The crying sounds of a wounded father.
The David Bowie song he believed had no direction: “I don’t think I had a focus”
The baby steps of a rock giant.
The musician Mike Portnoy compared to Jimi Hendrix: “I’d never seen or heard another drummer like him”
A transformative influence on rhythm.