“Timeless”: the most defining rock record Rick Rubin has ever heard
Everlasting.
Rick Rubin
The Velvet Underground predicted the doomed future of music marketing in 1969
A poetic plague was a-coming.
Why Rick Rubin could never click with Mick Jagger: “A tug of war”
Seeing the songs from different perspectives.
The 1980s artist Rick Rubin never wanted to become: “I try not to fall into that trap”
Far too one dimensional for him.
The 1976 song that made Rick Rubin fall in love with his favourite rock band
“A minimal extreme that had never been heard before.”
The guitar solos Rick Rubin said were absolute nonsense: “Nothing to do with music”
Far from musically complex.
The classic album that left Rick Rubin in tears: “It just took on a whole new level”
Pushing the genre forward.
Johnny Cash’s career was over, then he met Rick Rubin: The story of country’s greatest album
“Just me and my guitar…”
The producer Rick Rubin crowned as the greatest of all time: “He didn’t even like rock ‘n’ roll”
The greatest ear for hooks.