The album Billy Joel described as “a quantum leap” for his music and his life
Pushing forward.
Author: Tim Coffman Archives: 04/2026
The album that made Joni Mitchell want to leave the industry: “My farewell”
The final bow to the pop world.
How The Traveling Wilburys almost broke up the Heartbreakers: “They were pissed off”
Getting in trouble back home
The one album that ruined a Simon and Garfunkel reunion: “I really can’t do it”
Not seeing eye-to-eye again.
The one songwriter who made Joni Mitchell change her style: “I better cut that out”
Going in a new direction.
“He was a father to us”: Sammy Hagar picked the fifth member of Van Halen
The puppetmaster in the background.
One Beach Boys song inspired Graham Nash to greatness: “Brian is just a genius”
The pure beauty of vocal power.
The Led Zeppelin album Robert Plant never connected with: “I thought I was going to go away”
Nowhere near his best work.
The singer Roger Waters said was too good for words: “I don’t have the prose to describe it”
The pure sounds of soul.
The fire that almost “wiped out” Tom Petty and the song it inspired
Turning a brush with mortality into art.