‘Big shoes to fill? Of course’: Adam Lambert is growing into role as caretaker of Queen legacy
“The key,” Lambert says, “is to be mindful of the original intention of the songs.”
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‘It just popped up’: Roger McGuinn on the Byrds’ happenstance beginnings
Slowly, but surely, something magical was happening.
‘We just thought that would be fun’: The Yardbirds’ lasting connection with 10cc’s Graham Gouldman
They scored an early hit with a Gouldman song. But it didn’t end there.
‘Something’s got to trigger’: Micky Dolenz on the best Monkees song you’ve never heard
One of their most trenchant late-1960s protest songs took a circuitous route.
‘We’d create some sort of magic’: If Hall and Oates record again, it would be in a whole new way
“The whole idea of making an album,” John Oates says, “is really old-fashioned.”
‘It’s not supposed to be ballot by bullet’: Inside one of Crosby Stills and Nash’s most emotional tracks
This standout early CSN song remains a fiery indictment of dreams lost.
Inside Michael McDonald’s off-the-cuff audition for the Doobie Brothers: ‘He mouths at me, Oh my God’
When Tom Johnston’s health faltered, producer Ted Templeman initially approached Patrick Simmons about fronting the Doobie Brothers. Simmons had another idea.
‘I am a big fan’: Carl Palmer dedicates art work to late Emerson Lake and Palmer cover artist
The piece combines hand-painted brush strokes with fine-art photography.
‘Definitely a momentum killer’: Mike Love laments the lost Beach Boys classic SMiLE
“What would have happened,” Love muses, “had there not been drugs involved?”
‘I don’t know what the hell it’s about!’: Brian May goes inside Queen’s creative process
A fizzy alchemy surrounded one of the band’s hardest-rocking tunes.
