The 1959 song Ringo Starr couldn’t live without: “I love it”
“I love it, I love the live version.”
Ray Charles
Ray Charles really had no time for Elvis Presley: “It wasn’t that good”
Bottom of the rock and roll barrel.
The 1960 song Roger Waters spent his life trying to match: “Could move anyone like this”
The absolute peak of songwriting.
The moment Ray Charles legitimised country with a chart-topping hit in 1962
A groundbreaking single…
The one singer Billy Joel said he could never be like: “One of the greatest of all time”
Nowhere in the same ballpark.
The one singer Eric Clapton considered the model of greatness: “That’s how it’s done”
The sounds of pure rock and soul.
The record Don Henley called “the most important album of the 20th century”
Blending every genre together.
The American icon Stevie Wonder and Clint Eastwood both agreed changed the nation for the better
The cornerstone of American art.
