10 songs that ended an entire genre of music
Reading its final musical rites.
Author: Tim Coffman Archives: 06/2025
The artist Bruce Springsteen said challenged a generation: “They woke you up”
Finding his way to rock and roll church.
The U2 album Bono said was way too overhyped: “It would have been grand”
How to become completely overexposed.
The “lost” chord that The Beatles travelled around Liverpool trying to learn: “The missing part”
The endless search for chords.
The one classical composition Ian Anderson stole from: “Stuck in my brain”
The true progression of rock and roll.
Two years to write, three minutes to play: Watch Tom Petty’s final performance of ‘Wildflowers’
The open-hearted songsmith.
