Keith Richards names the "most superb, lucky song ever"
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Keith Richards names the "most superb, lucky song ever"
‘The surrealists believed that our dreams could help us find our true creative selves,’
Emilia Hart • The Sirens: The highly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of WEYWARD
My morning route afforded me some isolated time away from adults, time for a child’s imagination to grow. There’s something powerful that happens when you rise before the rest of the world. The feeling of freedom or rebirth that I imagine the birds feel every morning also belongs to a newspaper delivery boy. The two voices or characters in my head
... See moreDaniel Lanois • Soul Mining: A Musical Life
Everybody used to assume the Beatle myth was driving the music—it turned out to be the other way around.
Rob Sheffield • Dreaming the Beatles
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
... See moreThe Lanois brothers didn’t want to be generic; we wanted to have our own sound. This simple philosophy has been with me ever since.