The lesser-known musician who inspired Linda Ronstadt’s greatest song: “She was the main influence”
“That sort of belting thing.”
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The most apocalyptic song ever written, according to Bruce Springsteen
“The king of romantic apocalypse.”
“We better write another”: The Traveling Wilburys song they initially said wasn’t good enough
Not up to their normal standards.
“I don’t want to sing after him”: the vocalist Tom Petty thought he couldn’t follow
No sense in competing.
The musician Tom Petty thought was irreplaceable: “I never considered”
Never even under consideration.