In a changing world, there’s something reassuringly unchanged about Jeff Lynne, the one-time composer and producer of ...
Jeff Lynne once recalled seeing The Who perform live as a young and aspiring musician, and how the noise was so loud it excited the audience.
The Traveling Wilbury's are perhaps the greatest band to have never played live. But if George Harrison had his way, it would have been a different story.
Mike Campbell, Tom Petty's right-hand-man in the Heartbreakers until Petty's death in 2017, details the group's history and ...
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, central London had a thriving, thrilling, fertile and ever-evolving live music scene located at the northern end of Charing Cross Road. A plectrum flick or ...
Bacon donned the long blond wig to sing an alleged "early version" of Petty's 1980s hit, "Free Fallin.'" And it turns out the ...
Neal Francis sent me a thoughtful note a few days after our SPIN interview. It was like getting a response to a fan letter from one of the Cassidys—Shaun or D ...
As guitarist and a key architect of the Eighties band’s iconic sound, Mike Campbell rode the highs and lows of band life ...
A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing) is impressive - and surprising. To Mike Campbell as well. The Tom Petty and the ...
He sang the song into a cassette tape and took it to Campbell, who had a studio in his house ... and Petty in turn showed it to Jeff Lynne, who said "That might be one of those last riffs ...