Keith Richards names the "most superb, lucky song ever"
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Keith Richards names the "most superb, lucky song ever"
On May 19, 1978, Dire Straits officially released “Sultans of Swing,” a song that would become legendary for its musicianship and understated cool. But it was during Mark Knopfler’s A Night in London performance in April 1996 that the track took on a new life. As the song winds down, Knopfler launches into a slow-building, majestic outro... See more
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Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
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