It took The Beatles four years to record one of Ringo Starr’s only compositions for the band: “Sing the song I’ve written”
Four years in the making.
From The Vault Archives: 10/2025
Why did The Verve first break up in 1995?
And was it really just a grand, strategic publicity stunt?
The forgotten ‘90s rock band Thomas Pynchon was a ‘groupie’ for
Wrote liner notes for their album and turned up to gigs
‘Everything Falls Apart’: Dissecting Hüsker Dü’s prescient “pop anarchy” anthem
“If I listened to everything that people said or if I did everything everybody else did…it’d be shit”.
“Good old boys”: The anthem that Don Henley lamented as typecasting the Eagles
Far from their most authentic.
Joni Mitchell’s greatest song, according to Elvis Costello
“An unflinching look at an artist trying to detach from the deceits of fame.”
The most perfectly produced folk album of all time, according to Tony Visconti
An inspired moment of nothing much.
‘Midnight Lady’: The classic song Marvin Gaye slammed as totally “contrived”
His stunning comeback single…
The “incredible” guitarist Eddie Vedder called as good as Jimmy Page
“Such an incredible human being”.