The merits of Stephin Merritt: Indie’s finest and most overlooked songwriter?
The man behind the Magnetic Fields…
songwriting
The dark personal story behind Sting’s 1983 hit for The Police: “What poetry’s all about”
Sting at his most heartbroken.
The 1965 song that secured George Harrison’s place as a Beatles songwriter
Harrison contributed an all time classic.
The only song Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey wrote for The Who together
The one and only collaboration.
The Grateful Dead song that Jerry Garcia claims “wasn’t written” and just happened
Garcia conjured up ‘The Wheel’.
The John Prine lyric that Johnny Cash struggled to sing: “Johnny was having trouble”
“I figured, ‘That’s Johnny Cash'”