‘Led Zeppelin II’: the album that inspired John Frusciante to start and start over again
“I could do that then I was going to be good enough to go into the studio”
From The Vault Archives: 02/2025
Why Eric Clapton almost didn’t play the Rainbow Concerts: “I had to prop him up”
Bullied into legendary status.
The myth of the “fade in guy”: A rock star’s cheat code for authorised cocaine budgets
Was it really necessary?
“But so what?”: Roger Waters on why ‘The Final Cut’ was his most personal record
His emotional watermark.
Eddie Vedder on his impression of Elvis Costello: “I wouldn’t want to take him on”
“I wouldn’t want to take him on.”
“Who knows what would have happened”: The artist Jeff Beck said gave him a career
The start of a new beginning.
Why Robert Plant is grateful he wasn’t in Genesis: “That’s something you can never get round”
Fear of getting typecast.
‘Dawn Chorus’: the rejected Radiohead song that leaves Thom Yorke in “floods of tears”
“That’s the fucking point.”