Brian May once named “the first rock riff ever”
“I would be willing to debate this.”
From The Vault Archives: 08/2024
The Beatles song George Harrison called too easy to be a hit: “I put it on ice for months”
Song that should have existed before.
The Beatles song inspired by Yoko Ono’s piano-playing
“I wouldn’t mind betting Yoko was in on the writing of that.”
The musician Neil Young said will be “remembered hundreds of years from now”
From one icon to another.
The song Paul McCartney thought would be “the most embarrassing moment in my career”
Toeing the line between charming and awkward.
The Radiohead song Thom Yorke described as a “victim of its own simplicity”
“It became a victim of its own simplicity.”
The Rolling Stones song Keith Richards regrets: “One of Andrew Loog Oldham’s worst productions”
“It was time for another single.”