Neil Young used a song to confess to stealing Crazy Horse: “My band had been taken”
“Requiem for The Rockets”
From The Vault Archives: 04/2026
The only musician who ever truly intimidated Robert Plant and why he’d never work with him: “The most impressive single person”
Too talented for Percy to take on.
The song Phil Collins never wanted to give to Genesis: “They wanted it on the record”
Never quite right for the band.
Why Sting isn’t proud of his biggest song: “Not in the least bit original”
“It has a standard chord sequence, which is probably nicked off ‘Stand By Me’.”
The one “magic” musician Thom Yorke could never understand and the album that left him in awe
Yorke didn’t understand.
The “piss-take” Beatles song George Harrison wrote in anger at the music industry
It was his natural reaction.
‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’: The hit Simon and Garfunkel record that Paul Simon grew to resent
It signalled the end of their relationship.