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Roger McGuinn said Bob Dylan didn't recognize his own song when the Byrds performed it for him
The Byrds' founder talked to us about the origins of folk-rock, the allure of 12-string Rickenbackers and his eternal love of folk music
“So close that our knees would touch.” David Lee Roth recalls his earliest writing sessions with Eddie Van Halen
The singer says Van Halen’s first hit songs were born in a tiny alcove where he and Eddie shared cigarettes, argued over riffs and worked shoulder-to-shoulder
Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards remember Gram Parsons, who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26
Despite his tumultuous lifestyle, the country-rock pioneer delivered transcendent music with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and his own Fallen Angels
“They didn’t attack the record. They attacked me.” When Cher tried to disappear into a hard rock band called Black Rose
At the height of her fame, Cher ditched the Vegas polish, recruited Allman Brothers guitarist Les Dudek, and tried to prove she could front a real rock group
“We both laughed when he said that — but he was right.” Gary Moore on how Bob Daisley steered him toward a blues reinvention
A casual remark from Daisley helped the hard-rock guitarist remake his career with ‘Still Got the Blues’
What Neil Diamond really said to Bob Dylan backstage at The Last Waltz
An offhand remark from the Band’s farewell concert was recalled by Ronnie Wood in 1992 and has been retold for decades. Diamond said the truth is more nuanced
Inside Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and the “devilish experiment” that became 801, rock’s strangest supergroup
Eno clashed with the technically minded musicians, but the result was one of rock’s greatest — and most beloved — live albums
Pete Townshend put Eric Clapton on the road to recovery. Now he’s finally coming to the Crossroads Festival
In 1973, Townshend’s all-star Rainbow Theatre concerts forced Clapton back onstage at the height of his addiction — a moment that eventually led to the creation of the Crossroads Centre and Clapton’s famous guitar festival.
