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From The Vault Archives: 04/2026

The Beatles 1968 press photo

The Beatles song Ringo Starr thought was impossible to replicate: “It’s certainly different”

The drumming that would never be eclipsed.

Tim Coffman
Apr 17, 2026
Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin - Singer - Musician

The album that made Robert Plant want to leave Led Zeppelin: “I wasn’t comfortable at all”

Needing to hang it up.

Tim Coffman
Apr 17, 2026
Simon and Garfunkel - Paul Simon - Simon and Garfunkel - 1968

The number one Simon and Garfunkel song Paul Simon openly disliked: “It might sell”

Ruined.

Lucy Harbron
Apr 17, 2026
John Lennon - 1971 - Musician - The Beatles

The songs John Lennon said were too bad to release: “You couldn’t use them”

Needing a lot more elbow grease.

Tim Coffman
Apr 17, 2026
Eric Clapton - Guitarist - 1978

The one album Eric Clapton said was painful to make: “A frustrating way to record”

Great songs with the wrong production.

Tim Coffman
Apr 17, 2026
Ronnie James Dio - Black Sabbath - Singer - 2009

Ronnie James Dio absolutely hated his own 1983 song

Not a fan.

Poppy Burton
Apr 17, 2026
Ruth Copeland- The pioneering funk and soul singer who swapped Durham for Detroit

Ruth Copeland: The pioneering funk and soul singer who swapped Durham for Detroit

A pioneering voice…

Ben Forrest
Apr 17, 2026
George Harrison - 1967 - Musician - The Beatles

The day George Harrison refused to get into a swimming pool with a hippo: “I can’t do it”

A step too far.

Callum MacHattie
Apr 17, 2026
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin onstage bare-chested at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1977.

The classic rock band Led Zeppelin couldn’t stand touring with: “He was a raving nutcase!”

Bad blood.

Joe Taysom
Apr 17, 2026
Kurt Cobain - Nirvana - 1991 - The Roxy in Hollywood - Kevin Estrada

The two classic rock bands that Kurt Cobain truly couldn’t stand: “They just wrote about their dicks”

“Rock ‘n’ roll has been exhausted.”

Tom Taylor
Apr 17, 2026
Queen - Brian May - Freddie Mercury - 1977

The one guitarist Brian May called “superhuman”

Reinventing guitar.

Tim Coffman
Apr 17, 2026
STING - 1990s - Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

The one pop singer Sting considered the “consummate musician”

The height of musicianship.

Tim Coffman
Apr 17, 2026

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