Bruce Springsteen on the song that “changed the face of rock ‘n’ roll for ever and ever”
“A seismic gap had opened up.”
Author: Tom Taylor Archives: 11/2023
John Lurie: the competent composer who invented the outsider artist ‘Marvin Pontiac’
Probed by aliens before descending into madness.
The guitarist who made Mark E. Smith want to be a musician: “You’ve got no contemporaries”
“You kept my head together.”
How Barry Manilow caused the music industry to try and ban synths
Barry the bastard or Manilow the maestro?
Mark Rothko’s final paintings were a deliberate anti-capitalist sabotage
“Strictly malicious intentions.”
‘Aja’: the Steely Dan song that Kenny Aronoff says is “one of the greatest drum performances”
“Everybody knows that this was absolute genius.”
The live show that David Bowie saw “the future of pop music”
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”
