Latest articles by Paul Elliott
Plus: the one thing that was 'sacrosanct' in Queen's songwriting process
“After 40, 45 years of playing, I wanted to push myself and open up this whole new frontier,” he said
The Boss spent six months working on the album's title track
And why You Could Be Mine was his favourite song to play
“I was hoping it would catch on," Brian May said
His famous drum battle with two glove puppets
"For some reason the guitar wasn’t working through the amp," Gibbons recalled
“Music is an ever-evolving art form," he says
A triumph for a singer who’d been doing TV ads for yoghurt and crackers
“Freddie was pushing up the guitar more and more”
The legendary singer's prized possessions included John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to Imagine
But was that song really about a nun who sells dope to school kids?
He almost got the gig to replace Randy Rhoads
"You could pay what you want for a Radiohead record? That didn't last long, did it?"
Plus: the Aerosmith song that Slash said was "too pop"
The two rock legends hit a peak with Rainbow's Rising
Rhoads inspired the greatest music Ozzy ever made outside of Sabbath
"When you watch it now, it's not without its tense moments"
"There is no minimum wage for songwriters," he says
"I was really in a low emotional place," he said
“I didn’t want to be famous," Peart said. "I wanted to be good!"
Hiring Bob Rock was one of the smartest moves they ever made
