Latest articles by Paul Elliott
"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”
“The rumours said we were broke. That is not true”
“Her death was a total surprise. Maybe it should not have been, but it was”
“They just exuded this flamboyant glittery rock ’n’ roll”
“The whole album means so much to me. It blew my mind”
“We played California Jam and 120,000 people paid and another 100,000 smashed down the fences and broke in”
“He said, ‘I don’t think anyone’s actually ever recorded your band properly’”
“It was musically and lyrically challenging – we were pushing the boundaries”
Plus: the song Joel wrote in memory of John Lennon
“When you have a piece that you know can be brilliant, everything matters. If you nail it, this is a legacy piece”
“As a rock ’n’ roll singer and as a person, he was one of the best”
“I found the flute gave me something very interesting melodically”
“Kirk knew exactly what he liked – he was into Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Schenker”
Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them
“I really thought people would just laugh at us when they heard it”
“He actually flatlined once. He died for a few moments”
The Monsters Of Rock tour in 1988 was a disaster for Dokken
“We were that kind of band that didn’t go out looking for trouble but we always got it”
“Originally it was just piano with a vocal – a very simple song”
“The perfectionist in me is a blessing and curse”
“The first time I heard Good Times Bad Times on the radio, my jaw just dropped!”
