“Visceral magic”: Alison Mosshart’s favourite song by Tom Waits
“Never get tired of it.”
From The Vault Archives: 06/2024
“It developed legs of its own”: The jazz classic that inspired The Stranglers’ ‘Golden Brown’
The waltzing jazz song behind a baroque-pop masterpiece.
When Carrie Fisher and Don Henley discussed the album that could “save the entire human race”
“I awaken in a cold sweat.”
The perfect album for troubled times, according to Phoebe Bridgers: “It’s no apologist”
The sound of modern unease.
The Beach Boys song Brian Wilson called timeless: “It’s something that’s stood over the years”
The melody immune to time…
Moving away from clichés: Mick Jagger on the first The Rolling Stones song to address class
“I didn’t even realise I was doing it at the time.”
“Perfect”: the album David Gilmour says will make anyone love Pink Floyd
Getting used to prog rock brilliance.
The Neil Young vocal he could never sing the same again: “There was no sense in trying to do a better one”
The humanity behind his voice.