“He was the guy”: The only person Rick Rubin thought was good enough for Def Jam
“…they had their own thing going…”
Rick Rubin
“Ubiquitous in all our lives”: the one band Rick Rubin compared everything to
The ultimate quality test.
“Who the fuck are you to tell me?”: the producer David Crosby wanted nothing to do with
Not going with the programme.
The Beatles song Rick Rubin couldn’t live without: “Imprinted what a great song is”
“What a great song.”
“Blood and guts and Satan”: Rick Rubin on the artist he called the first thrash metal band
Unapologetically heavy.
‘He was in his head a lot”: Rick Rubin on the hardest-working artist he collaborated with
Beating a string of high-profile names.
“No point of reference”: The band Rick Rubin called impossible to define
Absolutely no starting point.
The producer Pete Townshend wanted to fight: “We musn’t do this, we mustn’t do that”
Polar opposite outlooks.
“Changes that feeling”: The drummer Rick Rubin called “unbelievably great”
Intuition over technicality.
“It was a very interesting project”: the album Crosby, Stills & Nash refused to release
A harmony not to be messed with.