Bob Dylan’s relationship with his own songs is unlike any other musician’s relationship with their catalog — not because the songs are uniquely excellent, though many of them are, but because Dylan appears to genuinely believe that a song is not a fixed object but a living thing, capable of meaning different things in different … Read more
There are songs that exist in a musician’s catalog in a different category from all the others — not better or worse in any technical sense, but weighted differently, carrying a specific personal gravity that the public history of the recording does not fully reveal. For Elvis Presley, that song was My Happiness — the … Read more
For more than sixty years, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have stood as the two towering giants of rock history. Fans have spent decades arguing over which band reigns supreme, but behind the scenes, the musicians themselves have always shared a deep respect for one another. Despite years of friendship and occasional vocal collaborations … Read more
Few live performances have reached legendary status quite like Prince’s unforgettable guitar solo during the 2004 induction of George Harrison into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The all-star tribute performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps initially belonged to an incredible lineup of musicians. Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne shared lead vocals, while … Read more
Geddy Lee is one of the most technically accomplished musicians in rock history — a bassist, vocalist, and keyboardist whose combination of skills on a single stage has been described by musicians across genres as among the most remarkable in live performance. He has spent fifty years inside Rush’s catalog with the specific intimacy of … Read more
The music world is mourning the loss of legendary singer Bonnie Tyler, who has died at the age of 75. The Welsh icon passed away in a hospital in Portugal, with news of her death announced on July 9, 2026. Born Gaynor Hopkins in Skewen, Wales, near Swansea, Tyler rose from humble beginnings to become … Read more
There is a specific kind of discomfort that the greatest artists experience about their most celebrated work — not the discomfort of failure, which is understandable and universal, but the discomfort of success that arrives at a cost, of songs that became so large and so permanent in the public consciousness that the person who … Read more
The romantic history between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham is the most extensively documented relationship in rock and roll — documented not through tabloid reporting or unauthorized biography but through the songs themselves, which constitute a running public account of two people who fell in love as teenagers in California, built one of the most … Read more
In the summer of 1969, two of the most significant and most self-destructive figures in American rock music were living parallel lives in Los Angeles — not parallel in the sense of similar circumstances, because Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison had genuinely different relationships with their own pain and their own talent and their own … Read more
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have been not speaking to each other, then speaking to each other, then not speaking to each other, in a cycle that has repeated across fifty years with a regularity that suggests neither man has found a way to be in the other’s presence for extended periods without something eventually … Read more