Sam Cooke once explained the “key to singing”
One of pop music’s greatest vocalists didn’t just rely on his natural gifts.
From The Vault Archives: 05/2025
Jerry Cantrell on the heaviest thing he ever wrote: “The sickest, darkest, most fucked up thing”
A direct request from Layne Staley.
The guitarist Jeff Beck said was “everything” he didn’t want to be
It came down to knowing when to “shut up.”
The musician so good Jimi Hendrix couldn’t be inspired by him
The difference between admiration and inspiration.
“He was instrumental in the disintegration”: The Eagles member Don Henley grew to resent
The start of them falling apart.
The Led Zeppelin song inspired by John Bonham’s drunken singing: “John used to do a lot of rap stuff”
Bonham was a lively spirit that night.
Gene Simmons’ bizarre attempt to trademark the ‘devil horns’ gesture
Shock of all shocks, it didn’t work.