Latest articles by Neil Crossley
“I wrote the lyrics about a person – and I’ve known a few – who gets under your skin”
John Lennon called it “one of my favourite Beatle tracks”
“It was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced,” King said
Featuring a $20 drum machine and strings orchestrated by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones
Following the sad news of her death, we look back on the making of the song that became Parton's first big crossover hit
The director said her song was perfect – although his first choice had been Prince
Townshend took punk seriously but refused to be cast off as an irrelevant rock dinosaur
A raw confessional piano ballad about his own deep personal insecurities
An anthem inspired by the legendary music festival – by an artist who wasn’t actually there
“That song is like that feeling when you’re walking on the clouds because you’re in love”
“We ended up using the demo because it had an energy and a sound”
The song emerged from the hedonism and chaos of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour
“I knew Bernie would like me to do this one because it’s about his girlfriend”
The popular Welsh singer has died aged 75
How Brian Wilson hooked up with an LA advertising executive to pen one of the most majestic and moving pop songs ever created
"I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me"
“That song had two writers – Paul Simon and God”
“Seven minutes of exquisite heartache” – quite unlike anything else the band created
The song was a sparse, stripped-back amalgam of electro-funk, soul, psych-pop, blues and rock
“He did the whole thing, start to finish, every instrument, everything, in a day”
“Two passes, and it was finished. It took less than two hours to record that song”
“Unfortunately, people identify it with David Bowie’s Space Oddity”
“I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”
