“A bad joke”: The day Nina Simone fled from America to Liberia
“Now I’m free.”
From The Vault Archives: 05/2025
“I couldn’t relate to him at all”: David Bowie’s disappointing meeting with Bruce Springsteen
Not clicking on first glance.
“The song was like a fortune cookie”: The track Tom Waits couldn’t stop writing
“Everybody knows guys like that”.
The band Steely Dan thought left everybody “in the dust” in the 1980s
”I’ve had a tough time with the radio lately.”
The Pink Floyd album so trippy that the band abandoned it: “Roger, this is insane”
Even the best have bad ideas.
“I started crying as soon I heard it”: The one song played at Carl Wilson’s funeral
Sending him off with class.
“Leave it”: The guitarist Jeff Beck initially thought Jimmy Page stole from him
“Didn’t go too well.”
“Deep depression”: The era Tom Petty called the darkest of his career
Getting harder to see the light.