The Beach Boys song that went “beyond pop music”
“We’ve been competing with that ever since”.
Author: Elle Palmer
The songwriters Paul Simon thinks are better than Bob Dylan: “It’s about whose songs last”
“I usually come in second.”
The Joni Mitchell album Stevie Nicks listened to repeatedly for 72 hours: “I latched on”
“I latched on to the title track.”
The one musician that Hans Zimmer calls “the master”
“Look at the craftsmanship, at the inventiveness…”
The “lyrically naive” songwriter Paul Simon said didn’t think hard enough
A songwriter lacking in depth.
The one songwriter who means everything to Mark Knopfler: “The most important”
“From the age of 12 onwards, really…”
The legendary song Joni Mitchell dismissed as “arbitrary”
“It’s a nice little ditty, you know? It’s fun to get into.”