Why did Sammy Hagar refuse to sing David Lee Roth songs in Van Halen?
“Who and what I am.”
From The Vault Archives: 06/2024
The one album that saved Pearl Jam from collapsing: “Came at a time when we needed it”
Learning to love the band…
The guitarist that Slash never considered real rock: “It doesn’t have any heart”
Sweeping solos can only go so far.
A Blues Baptism: The two records that brought Mick Jagger and Keith Richards together
A friendship forged in the blues.
The bands Tom Petty thought would keep rock music alive: “They’re going to carry this forward”
“We have to be there to carry them…”
The Pink Floyd era David Gilmour called awfully bad: “Incredibly undisciplined”
The sound of everything falling apart.
An ode to an old friend: the “sentimental” song Paul McCartney finds emotional to perform
“If I say I really loved you and was glad you came along.”
The song Trent Reznor intended to screw up: “It can’t be the pop single”
Too mainstream for something so dark.
‘Vicar In A Tutu’: The Smiths song Johnny Marr said was a “throwaway”
“It made a change from trying to change the fucking world.”
“If we worked on it, we would ruin it”: The one song Genesis decided not to “overblow”
The prog-rockers were aware of their tendency to overcook songs.