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Samantha Fish doesn’t like her first live album — that’s why she did it right with her latest, ‘Paper Doll Live’
By Gary Graff published
The blues-rock guitarist’s latest release builds on the Grammy Award–nominated success of her 2025 studio album

Brian May on the chart-topping Queen hit Freddie Mercury composed while getting ready one morning
By Christopher Scapelliti published
John Lennon said the song inspired his return to the studio in 1980 for his final album, ‘Double Fantasy’

Elvis Presley inspired it. John Lennon hated it. Behind the song he wanted to keep off the Beatles’ first psychedelic record
By Elizabeth Swann published
Lennon borrowed a line from Presley’s “Baby, Let’s Play House” to write one of his darkest lyrics

“I thought it was just a little bit too simple.” Tom Petty almost gave away his biggest hit — five years after he wrote it
By Christopher Scapelliti published
It took a persistent producer and a blunt comment from a studio assistant to convince him to dust off the gem and claim it for the Heartbreakers

“I was feeling like I had so much s*** to hurl at the tape.” How Sheryl Crow broke up her hit-making band with just two words
By Elizabeth Swann published
A remark during a David Letterman interview ignited tensions with the musicians who helped create one of her earliest career-defining tracks.

Bruce Springsteen hated Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light,” says singer Chris Thompson
By Andrew Daly published
The guitarist recalls the tape-machine glitch that created rock’s most infamous misheard lyric — and the awkward dinner where he asked Springsteen what he thought.

“You might be wrong.” Roger Daltrey said the record business Is “a joke.” Now Pete Townshend is talking about making another Who album
By Elizabeth Swann published
The guitarist says the band may still record again — and he has up to 450 unfinished pieces of music to start with

How Elvis Costello and a Whitney Houston movie turned a failed song into a million-dollar payday
By Christopher Scapelliti published
The pub-rock icon thought his tune had vanished for good — until a few seconds in ‘The Bodyguard’ changed everything.
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