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Tom Waits

Rod Stewart at his London home - 1972

The songwriter Rod Stewart called his all-time favourite: “Wonderful lyricist”

Creating a scene in a few words.

Tim Coffman
Mar 19, 2025
Keith Richards - The Rolling Stones - 2010s

The songwriter Keith Richards had an unspoken connection with: “What a great feel!”

Natural synergy.

Lucy Harbron
Mar 9, 2025
Tom Waits

“He’s like a vulture”: the musician Tom Waits called “all intuition”

Getting looser with age.

Tim Coffman
Mar 6, 2025
Tom Waits - 03

‘What’s He Building?’: The Tom Waits song that should be made into a movie

Tom Waits the barfly. Tom Waits the drunkard.

Matthew Ingate
Mar 1, 2025
Rod Stewart at his London home - 1972

The song Rod Stewart said he played better than the original: “I brought the chorus alive”

From an obscurity to an obsession.

Tim Coffman
Mar 1, 2025
Johnny Depp - Actor - 2024

The only artist better than the devil, according to Johnny Depp: “It’s almost impossible to single out a particular recording”

Darkly beguiling.

Lauren Hunter
Feb 26, 2025
Tom Waits

‘Alice’ and ‘Blood Money’: The time that Tom Waits released two great albums in one day

Misery’s the river of the world. Everybody row!

Matthew Ingate
Feb 13, 2025
Leonard Cohen - Singer - Poet - Musician - 1980s

When Leonard Cohen compared his music to Tom Waits’: “So much better than mine”

“I can hear him.”

Dale Maplethorpe
Feb 4, 2025
Tom Waits - 03

Ray Charles on the jukebox: The combo that inspired Tom Waits to follow the music

A legendary figure.

Ben Forrest
Feb 2, 2025
Tom Waits - 03

Tom Waits defines the difficult process of songwriting: “Songs don’t like being recorded”

“Set a trap for it.”

Dale Maplethorpe
Jan 21, 2025
Tom Waits

The Innovators and the World Builders: Tom Waits named his favourite songs from the 1960s

Masters of the enigma.

Kelly Murphy
Jan 20, 2025
Florence and The Machine - Florence Welch - 2023

Florence Welch on her songwriting inspirations: “I just love his use of imagery”

A sonic sibling.

Lauren Hunter
Jan 9, 2025

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