Ringo Starr on why John Lennon was so great: “He always put it out there”
“He was very brave”
From The Vault Archives: 06/2024
The guitarist Eddie Van Halen called “more Clapton than Clapton”
The more delicate touch of the blues.
Awkward entertainment: The Nirvana song Kurt Cobain called “an embarrassment to play”
“I don’t even remember the guitar solo.”
The genre Robert Plant admitted he “was so wrong” about and embraced in later life
The Led Zeppelin singer finally came around…
Roger Daltrey on the two bands he felt were “beyond” The Who
The Who’s frontman discusses some of his contemporaries.
“That’s how he kept coming”: how Peter Grant kept a reluctant John Bonham in Led Zeppelin
The drummer struggled with fame and excess in the 1970s.
“George is out”: John Lennon’s verdict on George Harrison’s disastrous 1974 tour
“It was probably his turn to get smacked.”
The song that predicted the evolution of the Arctic Monkeys: “Not lining up to be Play-Doh”
They were always going to change.
“Absolutely necessary”: the band David Bowie thought deserved more support
“A very, very important band.”
From The Beatles to Beethoven: The musicians that made Joanna Sternberg
A mismatched tapestry of perfect influences.
“Insane”: the night Nick Cave and Henry Rollins gatecrashed the Australian consulate
Like a Hunter S. Thompson tale.
Why Labi Siffre resented the track that repopularised his work
“I denied sample rights till that lazy writing was removed”.