“Too good”: the musician Paul McCartney pleaded with not to retire
Never give up.
1990
The 1990 album Lou Reed was convinced nobody liked: “Interesting to me”
“I thought people might pick up on the idea…”
“Humiliation got the better of me”: Christopher Reeve’s embarrassing audition for ‘Pretty Woman’
So unprofessional it left him furious.
The musician Slash thought would never join Guns N’ Roses: “The chemistry worked”
“…the chemistry worked.”
Sinéad O’Connor made her Hollywood home impossible to find: “I would have gone mad”
An act of rebellios survival.
The 1990 lyric that changed Tom Petty’s career for good: “I never played it again”
They changed everything.
The one mistake in 1990 Diane Keaton swore she’d never make again: “I tried that, and I hated it”
On a completely forgotten comedy drama.
The 1990 Traveling Wilburys song that became Tom Petty’s ‘Handle With Care’: “There was a box”
The funnier side of inspiration.
The 1990 album Tom Petty initially couldn’t stand working on: “Anything but this”
Writing for the wrong reasons.