“In love for life”: The poet who changed Leonard Cohen’s life
The poet before him.
From The Vault Archives: 01/2025
“For the rest of my life”: The band Rod Stewart wanted to play with forever
The real heart of his roots.
The song Thom Yorke wrote to antagonise Radiohead’s audience: “I just won’t laugh it off”
“When the power runs out, we’ll just hum.”
How David Byrne’s writer’s block made Talking Heads a stalwart success
The power of musical viscera.
How John Peel changed Jarvis Cocker’s life forever: “This was it: the big time”
“This was it: the big time. Except, of course, it wasn’t.”
Liz Phair on the perfect “gateway drug” album to alternative music
“She was both incredibly tough but also incredibly fragile…”
“The most important music to me was those hip-shakin’ boys”: How R&B got Al Green kicked out of home
“The most important music to me was those hip-shakin’ boys…”
“Anger is a powerful life force”: Alanis Morissette on the emotion that can move worlds
“As a woman, two of the main emotions that we are ‘not allowed’ to feel…”