""That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
Their youthful energy is a surprise no matter how many times I've witnessed it on screen. The Beatles really were that funny, and their band was as tight as hell. All of that was real.
The critical establishment has never truly acknowledged Elvis's gifts as an actor, although his fans know the truth about how wonderful he was onscreen.
Like any great piece of art, Amadeus makes us recognize and confront our own foibles and flaws.
The most established character in the documentary Jazz on a Summer’s Day is the audience.
Townes Van Zandt was hellbent on a heartache, not for its own sake, but because he saw in that heartache the inspiration for artistic creation.
Paul Simon was never not in my life. It started with Simon & Garfunkel, of course, Bridge Over Troubled Water blaring from...
“Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state...
I first learned how to strum guitar strings and press upon piano keys in high school. By college, I understood...
24 July 2006 “Small, over-tired children demand to be taken home by their mums once the full-on racket of Glosoli...
The Savoy had been struggling for years but when it closed, I felt sadder than I expected. It’s the quiet silencing of an institution that’s forever bound up in my adolescence, the severing of a clean through-line from who I was then to where I am now.
On a chunk of gold confetti that you push with pointed toe, you glide around the lit-up, emptied stadium, the...
