From The Vault Archives: 09/2020

David Bowie pays tribute to Nina Simone with a stunning performance of ‘Wild Is The Wind’, 2000

Beautiful

Sep 20, 2020

Pink Floyd release footage of rare 1970 TV performance

Listen to David Gilmour’s spine-tingling isolated guitar on Pink Floyd’s ‘Echoes’

Powerful stuff

Sep 19, 2020

Revisit Janis Joplin’s epic cover of jazz standard ‘Summertime’ from back in 1969

Hear Janis Joplin’s emotional rare acoustic demo of ‘Me and Bobby McGee’

Magic

Sep 19, 2020

Revisit three spectacular times Nick Cave covered Leonard Cohen

Iconic.

Sep 19, 2020

Revisiting Leonard Cohen's fantastic cameo appearance in 'Miami Vice'

Revisiting Leonard Cohen’s fantastic cameo appearance in ‘Miami Vice’

Watch it here.

Sep 19, 2020

Kate Bush once revealed the ‘Wuthering Heights’ lyrics in a handwritten letter to a young fan

“It certainly won’t cost you!”

Sep 19, 2020

The Beatles song Paul McCartney wrote about the civil rights movement

“There is hope”

Sep 19, 2020

Revisit one of Jimi Hendrix's finest performances

Is this Jimi Hendrix’s best guitar solo ever?

How is anybody this good?

Sep 19, 2020

The crucial advice Keith Richards has for anybody who wants to play the guitar

Words to live by.

Sep 18, 2020

Listen to Frank Zappa read a passage from William Burroughs book 'Naked Lunch', 1978

Read Frank Zappa’s motivational letter sent to a fan trying to the fight against censorship

Impassioned.

Sep 18, 2020

Van Morrison to release three ‘anti-lockdown’ songs

He labels government “fascist bullies”

Sep 18, 2020

Remembering when Jefferson Airplane performed ‘White Rabbit’ live at Woodstock

Grace Slick steals the show

Sep 18, 2020