Latest articles by Paul Elliott
“I wish we could do something like that now”
“Freddie absolutely adored it – he sang it until he bled!”
“I know the song Bat Out Of Hell,” the singer said, “but I’ve never listened to the album”
“Chris has been instrumental in introducing us to a new generation”
“That bond is really the constant in the life of Kiss”
He also gave a guitar lesson to Keith Moon and Ringo Starr
A pep talk from Petty led to her solo album Trouble In Shangri-La
“He should have known that so many people were influenced by him”
“It was obviously our creative peak. Every band, every artist, has one”
“It really opened my eyes to the enormity of what I wanted to do – and it was humbling”
"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"
“There’s no great difference between me and Metallica”
And with the money it made, the band bought an oil well!
The goth legends’ ‘Doom Trilogy’ was aptly named
“I’m being so sarcastic in that song, I can’t believe so many people don’t get it”
“One of the things about Keith that I love so much is that he hangs in there – thick or thin”
“Sharon’s going, ‘Smile!’ And this chimp is biting my thumb off!”
Plus: the classic song he gave to Blue Öyster Cult – which they gave right back!
A sophisticated sound that eight million Americans fell for
“I could not seem to put more than 30 days of abstinence together”
“You can be in love on stage and that’s fine – but when the affair comes off the stage, that screws up the band more than anything”
“The way we approached this album was, ‘We’ve done that before. Let’s do it different’”
“In the end, my wife said, ‘Why don’t you do it, Phil?’”
