Pop pioneers: The one musician Brian Wilson would like to have been
“I admire him as a person too.”
From The Vault Archives: 06/2024
The drum solo that makes Stewart Copeland “sob”
The Police drummer is in awe of jazz despite not being a huge jazz fan.
George Harrison on Eric Clapton marrying Pattie Boyd: “I think that has always annoyed him”
“I didn’t get annoyed at him.”
The Paul Kanter song about “stealing a starship” with Jerry Garcia and David Crosby
Extraterrestrial activities with acid rock icons.
The U2 song they wanted to give to Frank Sinatra: “Trying to summon up the spirit”
The glitchy sound of crooners.
“It’s as close to God as I know”: Nina Simone once named the eight masters of music
The saints of talent.
The one record Stevie Nicks thought she was written out of: “I can’t hear myself at all”
Not as involved as she would have hoped.
Harold Fisher: The “obscure hero” that became Neil Peart’s biggest influence
“It turned out to be someone I’d never even heard of.”