The rock icons Don Henley couldn’t stand: “I don’t understand what the hoopla is about”
Not exactly the California brand of music.
From The Vault Archives: 05/2026
The 1969 concert Billy Joel thought was a disaster: “I didn’t enjoy it”
Missing out on the counterculture.
The dark personal story behind Sting’s 1983 hit for The Police: “What poetry’s all about”
Sting at his most heartbroken.
The Kinks song that helped Ray Davies find his voice again: “Rat-arsed drunk on wine”
The Kinks frontman reflects on one of his late career favourites.
The 1971 John Lennon song that left a bad taste in Paul Simon’s mouth: “Pointless”
“He strikes me as being very interested in being seen or heard.”
“The one to blame”: Why Mickey Dolenz regretted hiring an icon for the strangest tour of 1967
Just the wrong audience, right?
The band Neil Young crowned as the American Rolling Stones: “Never been a bad night”
Neil Young is the kind of artist who was never going to do what a label told him to. The fact that he made entire…
