A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
In one hundred or two hundred or five hundred years, the idea of “rock music” being represented by a two-pronged combination of Elvis and Dylan would be equitable and oddly accurate.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Bowie’s audience was his instrument. Ziggy really couldn’t play guitar; what Ziggy played was the kids.
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
David Bowie also had a go with ‘Even a Fool Learns to Love’, later recycling the rejected material as ‘Life on Mars?’
David Cheal • The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs
All these thoughts, all these ideas, coalesced into what may have been our most consistent record since Things Fall Apart. It was so unified in its message, in fact, that one of the songs we thought would be the lead single, a track called “Birthday Girl” with Patrick Stump as a guest vocalist, had to be taken off the record. It was a topical song,
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