“It’s better to burn out”: the origin story of Neil Young’s controversial 1979 lyric
“Your circuits, instead of corroding, are fucking disintegrating.”
Music Archives: 06/2026
“I loved doing that”: The 1996 song Tom Petty called the “greatest compliment”
The highest kind of praise.
“I just love that song”: The 1957 American classic that convinced Paul McCartney to become a musician
“I swear, the blues had gone”.
“Very smarmy”: The yacht rock icons Phil Collins couldn’t stand watching
Looks too big for his head.
In 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival wrote the biggest hit song about Woodstock to date
Fogerty got inspired by the rain.