Joni Mitchell didn’t want to be remembered for folk: “They want to pigeonhole me and they can’t”
Not wanting to be typecast.
Author: Tim Coffman Archives: 03/2026
“The greatest ever English rock’n’roll song”, according to Jeff Lynne
Absolute perfection in one song.
“So special to me”: the lyricist Brian Wilson said touched his heart most
His very own emotional translator.
“An understanding of it all”: the singer Eric Clapton said captured America
The best America has to offer.
Joe Walsh could never enjoy the Grateful Dead: ‘I couldn’t tell what the hell they were doing’
On a much different wavelength.
The frontman Bono and Henry Rollins both called the greatest: “One of the most brilliant things I’ve ever seen in my life”
The epitome of rock and roll abandon.
“My personal favourite”: The best album Sammy Hagar ever made with Van Halen
The best of ‘Van Hagar’.
George Harrison would only trust one person with his final songs: “The most amazing times”
The last bow from the quiet one.
The one songwriter Billy Joel said changed all lyricists forever: “Such a literate writer”
The next evolution of lyrics.