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No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk cowboy boots—but for a few minutes, the most famous son of the Jersey Shore achi

NEIL YOUNG contains multitudes. In a career spanning six decades, many different Neils have emerged – Neil the loner, Neil the activist, Neil the superstar, Neil the country singer, Neil the bandleader and Neil the rebel among them. Ahead of Young’s 80th birthday this month, STEPHEN STILLS , GRAHAM NASH , EMMYLOU HARRIS , NILS LOFGREN , PATTERSON HOOD , THURSTON MOORE , MICAH NELSON , RANDY BACHMAN and MARGO PRICE offer their highlights of a fearless, single-minded artist, one driven to spontaneous creation and rapid emotional responses. “He radically changes his mind and his direction, to the shock of everyone,” says one of his oldest compadres. “But then, he’s done this all his life.”

AFTER SLASH AND Duff McKagan exited Guns N’ Roses in the mid-Nineties, things went kinda sideways for a bit. The band kept rolling, but it was host to a cavalcade of guitar players, from Buckethead to

Ageless rock’n’roll optimist Jonathan Richman on music, mortality and reuniting with an ex-Lover

The onset of 1985 found Eurythmics in a commercial sweet spot as they rode a wave of successive hits on the global stage. It was barely two-and-a-bit years since Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) in Jan

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B