Latest articles by Paul Elliott
“I don’t want to give up because I love what I do”
“There’s a lot of mistakes – but I know where I’m trying to go”
“Any songwriter will tell you it’s the best feeling in the world”
“It took her out of her normal place, which some of her hardcore fans didn’t dig”
“I didn’t know – nobody knew – how powerful two rappers could be”
Strats might not play a starring role in Oasis history but Marr sold Gallagher a pre-CBS ’65 model that ended up on Don’t Look Back In Anger and Wonderwall. Does Marr want it back?
“I hadn’t seen Ozzy for a bit, and it was difficult seeing him like that”
“I told him, ‘If you hit me, you’re probably gonna knock me out. But if I get up, you better run’”
“I’m so proud of it – but I couldn’t get Bob to write the lyrics”
May’s lyrics refer to Cropper’s famous co-write (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
The guy who wrote Owner Of A Lonely Heart was also in the running
“I didn’t want Alice to be a hero – I wanted him to be a villain”
“The studio was a two-car garage turned into a control room and a room. It was really tight in there”
In previously unpublished extracts from a major interview, Buckingham discusses the band’s classic albums and more
“We had one of those love-hate relationships – it was just hard to move on”
The Boss spoke of the “emotional power” in Browne’s songs
His tough-talking approach helped create one of the band’s biggest hits
Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”
“The food budget for the Steinman sessions was probably as much money as The Dark Side Of The Moon cost to record”
“Rob is really into heavy metal, like really into it. After all these years, he just loves heavy metal”
"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"
“Even if he had stopped taking drugs right there on the spot, I think it had still gone too far”
“We learnt a lot from that whole experience”
