Songwriter of the year 2025: The many contributions of Matt Maltese
So many credits.
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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'”
Tom Petty wrote a song so personal that it actually “frightened” him and “vindicated” his band
“I didn’t embrace it at all.”
“You can sleep at night”: Labi Siffre’s timeless advice for songwriters
“There’s too much personality in music.”
‘Yonkers’: Tyler, the Creator’s greatest opening lyric
A work of astonishing brilliance called ‘Yonkers’.
“The most played song on MTV”: the best way to become rich as a songwriter, according to Devo
Royalties could make up the GDP of a small country…
The songs that helped Noel Gallagher overcome addiction: “Trying to get to a different level”
If you haven’t heard Be Here Now, imagine playing one of those terrible John Lennon solo albums at half speed while pressing your ear up against an active washing machine. Yet somehow much, much worse than that.