The origin story of Slash’s iconic top hat: “Looking for shit to pilfer”
“My hat and my hair in my face has just been my thing ever since…”
Author: Tom Phelan Archives: 12/2025
Sabbath Assembly: the band born from a cult
“The spell has been broken, and the albatross falls like lead into the sea….”
Mark Hamill’s single favourite movie of all time: “Right up at the top”
“That captured me as a little kid…”
The movie Natalie Wood hated every second of making: “Put me on a plane and send me home”
“To tell her to go shit in her hat…”
Five covers on The Rolling Stones’ ‘Blue & Lonesome’ that are better than the originals
Giving the ol’ timers a run for their money.
The one artist Neil Young said nobody should mess with: “Do justice to the original work”
“…I wasn’t made that way.”
The song that inspired Pink Floyd’s entire prog-rock direction: “A catalyst”
“I didn’t even know that until he told me.”
The musician that Joe Strummer thanked God for: “Hit the jackpot”
“When I was his age, I didn’t know fuck-all.”
How dating a Beatle proved harrowing for Jane Asher
“I was jealous of all the spiritual experiences he’d had with John…”
