I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.
Despite all the solo vocals, each using the others as a back-up group, the White Album still sounds haunted by memories of friendship—that dreamlike state they could still zoom into hearing each other...
Dandelion is easily the best faux-McCartney song of the Sixties.
CARY GRANT IS THE MCCARTNEY OF MOVIE STARS—HIS STORY has much to tell us about Paul’s. They share a spiritual connection, beyond their pronunciation of Judy. (Paul described his hey Judy-Judy-Judy ad...
As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.
When George was a kid he used to follow me and my first girlfriend, Cynthia—who became my wife—around. We’d come out of art school, and he’d be hovering around like those kids at the gate of the Dakot...
This is what they call hitting rock bottom, and they call it that because it rocks.
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel t...
Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.
Prince, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2004)
Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all...
I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.
But ma’am doesn’t translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.
But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys always want to be taken seriously, and they always want to tr...
But things started to wobble around the time R.E.M. put out a truly wretched album called Document, the one that made her reconsider whether she could continue to worship Michael Stipe. I blamed R.E.M...
Will always ride hard for Mick’s Paul phase, summed up by the compilation Through the Past, Darkly, with its awesomely ridiculous octagonal cover.
You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know wha...
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like th...
To enter into that karaoke mindset, you have to leave behind all your notions of good or bad, right or wrong, in tune or out of tune. The kara in the word karaoke is the same as the one in karate, whi...
The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You arethere, my friend.