Endless knots and good omens: the story behind Throbbing Gristle’s “Totemic Gifts”
Did you manage to get one?
From The Vault Archives: 04/2025
“Best on the planet”: the artist Eddie Vedder considered his best friend
Keeping his musical principles.
“These things do take time”: Lou Reed on his most underrated solo albums
“I don’t know how things work.”
The musicians so good that Jeff Lynne hated them: “I have come to love them now”
Too sophisticated for him.
The band that helped Bob Dylan realise his full potential: “I really had some sort of epiphany”
Changing his usual direction.
“Intolerable”: Don Henley on the one Eagle who was a nightmare to work with
Not quite as harmonious.
“I should be singing soul”: the Motown song that made Bruce Springsteen switch genres
The operatic side of pop music.
The guitarist Jimmy Page labelled “easily the best” in their field
The best the mainstream had to offer.
“The point of origin”: the Fleetwood Mac song John Lennon adored and copied
The Beatles weren’t all original.