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# Performing Songwriter

Songwriting Workshops and Performing Songwriter Magazine Archives

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## Posts

- [Happy Birthday, Neil Young](https://performingsongwriter.com/happy-birthday-neil-young/) - Neil Young’s interview with Performing Songwriter magazine accompanied by classic photos by Henry Diltz and the stories behind them.
- [Remembering Les Paul](https://performingsongwriter.com/remembering-les-paul/) - On what would be Les Paul’s birthday, Performing Songwriter celebrates him with some entertaining and inspiring stories he told us in 2005, including ones about Bing Crosby, Django Reinhardt and W.C. Fields.
- [George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” Copyright Case](https://performingsongwriter.com/george-harrison-my-sweet-lord/) - On Jan. 10, 1971 Bright Tunes Music filed a copyright infringement case against George Harrison for the similarities of “My Sweet Lord” to Ronnie Mack’s “He’s So Fine.”
- [Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis: After Katrina](https://performingsongwriter.com/harry-connick-branford-marsalis-katrina/) - Old friends Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis' dream of The Musician's Village to get their hometown of New Orleans back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina.
- [The Journey of Janis Ian](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-journey-of-janis-ian/) - It’s the sort of life that could serve as fodder for the Great American Novel. FBI surveillance, childhood fame, abject poverty and, through it all, the boundless resilience of the human spirit. All these plots and subplots have been part of Janis Ian’s story.
- [Marian Anderson’s April 9, 1939 Lincoln Memorial Performance](https://performingsongwriter.com/marian-anderson/) - On April 9, 1939, celebrated African-American contralto Marian Anderson performed for 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after being denied use of a D.C. Hall over segregation rules.
- [Stars Behind Bars: Chuck Berry](https://performingsongwriter.com/chuck-berry/) - If you read the biography on Chuck Berry’s official website, you will find no mention of the word prison. This bit of revisionist history glosses over the fact that the rock pioneer has been incarcerated three different times.
- [Stars Behind Bars: Paul McCartney](https://performingsongwriter.com/paul-mccartney-tokoyo-jail/) - On Jan. 16, 1980, Paul McCartney and his wife Linda arrived at Tokyo International Airport for a week-long Japanese tour with Wings. But the tour ended before it began when a customs officer rummaging through their carry-on luggage lifted out a fist-sized bag of marijuana.
- ["Another Brick in the Wall"](https://performingsongwriter.com/another-brick-in-the-wall/) - On March 22, 1980, Roger Waters' "Another Brick in the Wall," became the Pink Floyd's one and only U.S. No. 1 hit.
- ["Landslide"](https://performingsongwriter.com/stevie-nicks-landslide/) - Stevie Nicks tells the story behind her song "Landslide."
- [Michael Stipe: All the Right Friends](https://performingsongwriter.com/michael-stipe/) - REM's Michael Stipe talks with Performing Songwriter about the highs, lows and enduring nature of REM.
- [In Response to 9/11: The Healing Power of Music](https://performingsongwriter.com/9-11-healing-power-music/) - Thoughts shared by artists and songwriters a few days after 9/11 as they made their way through their own fears and questions.
- [Harlan Howard](https://performingsongwriter.com/harlan-howard/) - A tribute to the legendary Harlan Howard, the songwriter behind such hits as “I Fall to Pieces,” “Busted,” “Tiger by the Tail,” and hundreds more.
- ["(Don't Fear) The Reaper"](https://performingsongwriter.com/blue-oyster-cult-dont-fear-the-reaper/) - “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” coupled Blue Oyster Cult's mysticism with a beautiful melody, lush harmonies and one of the coolest guitar riffs of the ‘70s.
- [Shel Silverstein](https://performingsongwriter.com/shel-silverstein/) - Performing Songwriter looks back at the creative life of Shel Silverstein, a beloved poet, author, artist and songwriter.
- ["Love Is All Around"](https://performingsongwriter.com/mary-tyler-moore-love-is-all-around-sonny-curtis/) - “Love Is All Around” became 56 seconds of TV theme song history for songwriter Sonny Curtis who wrote and performed it for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
- ["Only the Good Die Young"](https://performingsongwriter.com/only-good-die-young/) - “When I wrote ‘Only the Good Die Young,’ the point of the song wasn’t so much anti-Catholic as pro-lust,” Billy Joel said.
- ["Bohemian Rhapsody"](https://performingsongwriter.com/freddie-mercury-queen-bohemian-rhapsody/) - It's a testament to Freddie Mercury’s adeptness as a songwriter and Queen’s musicianship that the disparate parts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" add up to such a glorious sum.
- [Dolly Parton](https://performingsongwriter.com/dolly-parton/) - In a career that’s spanned over six decades, Dolly Parton has written over 3,000 songs, including stone country classics such as “Jolene,” and “Coat of Many Colors” and the most successful crossover single of the past 25 years, “I Will Always Love You.”
- [Johnny Mercer](https://performingsongwriter.com/johnny-mercer/) - The story of songwriter Johnny Mercer, one of the greatest lyricists of the American Songbook who penned such classics as “Moon River,” “That Old Black Magic,” and “Skylark.”
- [Adieu, Stacy Widelitz](https://performingsongwriter.com/adieu-stacy-widelitz/) - A tribute to Stacy Widelitz, songwriter of "She's Like the Wind," by Lydia Hutchinson.
- [The Bittersweet Story of Eva Cassidy](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-bittersweet-story-of-eva-cassidy/) - Four years after Eva Cassidy's death, a tape she had made of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” made its way into the hands of a programmer at Britain’s BBC2.
- [Harold Arlen](https://performingsongwriter.com/harold-arlen/) - The story of Harold Arlen, the great American songwriter who gave the world such classics at “That Old Black Magic,” “One For My Baby,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” and his crowning masterpiece “Over the Rainbow.”
- [In Memory of Teri Scheinzeit](https://performingsongwriter.com/in-memory-of-teri-scheinzeit/) - On April 7, 2023 the world lost one of its sweetest songbirds, Teri Scheinzeit. Here is a tribute to her by Lydia Hutchinson.
- [Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter](https://performingsongwriter.com/troubadours-rise-singersongwriter/) - Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter, is a documentary that centers around a West Hollywood venue that provided a nexus for the ’70s singer-songwriter movement.
- [Censored Songs In American History](https://performingsongwriter.com/censored-songs-in-american-history-2/) - Censorship is nothing new. In fact, it was 1735 when the first song was banned in America. Here’s a look at 8 songs that were considered too dangerous or immoral to be heard.
- [Randy Newman's Cast of Characters](https://performingsongwriter.com/randy-newman-songs/) - An Interview with Randy Newman on his approach to songwriting and the stories behind his songs Political Science, Redneck, Short People, God’s Song, and more.
- [Duke Ellington at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival](https://performingsongwriter.com/duke-ellington-newport-jazz-festival/) - When he brought his orchestra to the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956, 57-year-old Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington revitalized his career with an inspired performance.
- [Bob Dylan Plugs In](https://performingsongwriter.com/bob-dylan-newport-1965/) - Bob Dylan stepped on stage July 25, 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric band in tow, which many folk purists in the crowd considered a heresy.
- [Behind the Songs of John Prine](https://performingsongwriter.com/john-prine-songs/) - Legendary songwriter John Prine tells the stories behind such classics as “Sam Stone,” Hello In There,” “Paradise,” “Dear Abby,” and more.
- [We Miss You, Dan Fogelberg](https://performingsongwriter.com/dan-fogelberg-tribute/) - A tribute to Dan Fogelberg, who died December 16, 2007, by Performing Songwriter Editor Lydia Hutchinson.
- ["A Day In The Life"](https://performingsongwriter.com/beatles-day-life/) - In January 1967 the Beatles went into EMI’s London studio to record “A Day In the Life.” Here’s the story behind the writing and the making of it.
- [The Musical Language of James Taylor](https://performingsongwriter.com/james-taylor/) - An interview with James Taylor that took place on his birthday in 2002, where he talks about the enduring role that music has played in his life.
- [Farewell, Merle Haggard](https://performingsongwriter.com/farewell-merle-haggard/) - On April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday, Merle Haggard left this earth. To honor him, here is an interview from 2007 where he chatted with us about Johnny Cash, jail and wild nights with George Jones. Farewell, Hag. Thank you for a lifetime of music and memories.
- [Sgt. Pepper Album Cover: Faces in the Crowd](https://performingsongwriter.com/sgt-peppers-album-cover/) - As the definitive snapshot of ‘60s pop culture, artist Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper cover was unlike anything the world had ever seen—and almost half a century later it’s still iconic Beatles.
- [The Mysterious Death of Jim Morrison](https://performingsongwriter.com/mysterious-death-jim-morrison/) - No one knows for sure where the 27-year-old Doors frontman Jim Morrison was or what he did the evening of July 2, 1971, but by the next morning, one thing was certain: He was dead.
- [Elton John’s American Debut: August 25, 1970](https://performingsongwriter.com/elton-john-american-debut-troubadour/) - On August 25, 1970, Elton John made his U.S. debut in a legendary six-night sold-out run at West Hollywood’s Troubadour.
- [“Me and Bobby McGee”](https://performingsongwriter.com/kris-kristofferson-bobby-mcgee/) - Inspired by a Fellini film, Kris Kristofferson wrote a classic road story that became a chart-topper for Janis Joplin, who recorded it days before her death.
- [Herb Alpert’s “Whipped Cream” Cover Girl](https://performingsongwriter.com/herb-alpert-whipped-cream-cover-girl/) - Forty-eight years ago this month Herb Alpert’s landmark ‘Whipped Cream & Other Delights’ was released with an iconic cover of a whipped cream-covered Dolores Erickson.
- [The Storytelling of Willie Nelson](https://performingsongwriter.com/willie-nelson-interview/) - It absorbs you for the first few minutes you see him. Framed by a thick shock of long red hair and a thatch of beard, Willie Nelson’s face is that of a lifelong storyteller.
- [Remembering Laura Nyro](https://performingsongwriter.com/laura-nyro-interview/) - A 1993 discussion on songwriting with Laura Nyro, who gave us such classics as “And When I Die,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Wedding Bell Blues,” “Eli’s Coming” and more.
- [Behind Tom Petty's Songs](https://performingsongwriter.com/tom-petty-songs/) - The stories behind Tom Petty's songs, including Free Fallin', Wildflowers, Stop Dragging My Heart Around and Refugee.
- [Favorite Paul Simon Quotes](https://performingsongwriter.com/paul-simon-quotes/) - A few of Paul Simon's most memorable quotes from the past few decades.
- [Songwriter Tributes to Bonnie Raitt](https://performingsongwriter.com/songwriter-tributes-to-bonnie-raitt/) - Tributes from songwriters who Bonnie Raitt championed: Chris Smither, Mike Reid, Allen Shamblin, Karla Bonoff, Richard Thompson and John Prine
- [A Conversation With Carole King](https://performingsongwriter.com/carole-king/) - A rare interview with Carole King on the role of a songwriter, writing for commerce versus art, and the story behind “Natural Woman.”
- [Farewell, Eric Lowen](https://performingsongwriter.com/eric-lowen/) - An essay on facing the end, by songwriter and artist Eric Lowen who died of Lou Gehrig's Disease on March 23, 2012.
- [Gordon Lightfoot](https://performingsongwriter.com/gordon-lightfoot/) - Excerpts from a 1998 interview with legendary songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
- ["Ode To Billie Joe"](https://performingsongwriter.com/bobbie-gentry-ode-billie-joe/) - The mystery created by Bobbie Gentry in her debut single “Ode To Billie Joe” cast a spell over the entire country in 1967.
- [Ashley Cleveland: Little Black Sheep](https://performingsongwriter.com/little-black-sheep-a-memoir-by-ashley-cleveland/) - Grammy-award winning Ashley Cleveland—armed with her mighty voice and a living, growing and ultimately nourishing faith—has written a beautiful and inspiring memoir of hope.
- [The Life and Music of Lou Reed](https://performingsongwriter.com/lou-reed-interview/) - Excerpts from a 2000 interview with Lou Reed about his life and songs.
- [Nancy Wilson's Guitar Magic](https://performingsongwriter.com/nancy-wilson-interview/) - From the moment she saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Nancy Wilson knew the guitar was the key to her future. A decade later she and her sister Ann stormed the stage as Heart and landed a blow for female equality in a rock and roll world.
- [The Musical Force of Chaka Khan](https://performingsongwriter.com/chaka-khan/) - For the past 40+ years Chaka Khan has crossed and blurred the borders between rhythm and blues, jazz, pop, fusion and funk with ease, refusing to be categorized.
- [The Big Score: A Timeline of Movie Music](https://performingsongwriter.com/movie-scores/) - Ever since the first commercial movies flickered onto screens in the early 1900s, composers have been bringing the audience right in the scene with the characters.
- [The Genius of Ray Charles](https://performingsongwriter.com/ray-charles-interview/) - It seems the word “genius” is bandied about far too often, but when you’re talking about Ray Charles, no other word will do. As a pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger and band leader, Charles almost single-handedly invented modern R&B music.
- ["The Monster Mash"](https://performingsongwriter.com/monster-mash/) - Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Leonard Capizzi finished the “Monster Mash” in one afternoon, then cut it with producer Gary Paxton. Eight weeks later, in October 1962, the song was No. 1.
- [Having Fun With Sheryl Crow](https://performingsongwriter.com/sheryl-crow-interview/) - Excerpts from a 1994 interview with Sheryl Crow as she was just starting out on a storied career with the release of Tuesday Night Music Club.
- [Lamont Dozier](https://performingsongwriter.com/lamont-dozier-interview/) - Motown songwriting legend Lamont Dozier, along with his writing partners Eddie and Brian Holland, created the sound of an era whose influence is still felt decades later.
- [Woody Guthrie](https://performingsongwriter.com/woody-guthrie/) - A look back at the life of this extraordinary everyman and his musical legacy.
- [Marvin Hamlisch](https://performingsongwriter.com/marvin-hamlisch-tribute/) - Scoring movie soundtracks, writing Broadway musicals, penning Top 40 pop hits, conducting and composing full classical symphonies for orchestras, accompanying Liza Minelli, Barbra Streisand and Groucho Marx – you name it, Marvin Hamlisch has done it.
- [The Songwriting Sanctuary of Neil Diamond](https://performingsongwriter.com/neil-diamond-interview/) - Songwriting is a sanctuary for Neil Diamond, just as it was when he first put pen to paper as an intense, sensitive teenager at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.
- [Sarah McLachlan's Creative Space](https://performingsongwriter.com/sarah-mclachlan-interview/) - Every once in a while an artist like Sarah McLachlan comes along who not only creates great and lasting music, but also great and lasting change. It’s the kind of change that happens with an inordinate amount of personal investment, sacrifice, good will and the ability to lead.
- [Bonnie Raitt's Foundation in the Blues](https://performingsongwriter.com/bonnie-raitt-rhythm-and-blues-foundation/) - It’s easy to see the profound influence the great blues players had on Bonnie Raitt, who to this day carries with her an unmatched soulfulness in all aspects of her life.
- [Revival: A Folk Music Novel](https://performingsongwriter.com/revival-folk-music-novel/) - One of the first rules for a novelist is to write what you know, and Scott Alarik knows folk music better than anyone.
- [The Poetic Sensibility of Patti Smith](https://performingsongwriter.com/patti-smith-interview/) - With the exception of Bob Dylan, no other artist has so successfully fused a poet’s sensibility to rock’s visceral energy than Patti Smith.
- [The Americana Roots of Chris Hillman](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-americana-roots-of-chris-hillman/) - Before there was Wilco or Lucinda Williams, before Jackson Browne or the Eagles, before Willie and Waylon grew their hair long and called themselves outlaws, Chris Hillman was forging the path they would all follow.
- [The Incomparable Patty Griffin](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-incomparable-patty-griffin/) - Soul singer, gospel singer, folk singer, rock singer—just go ahead and try to define this powerhouse of a voice that is Patty Griffin.
- [Farewell, Pinetop Perkins](https://performingsongwriter.com/farewell-pinetop-perkins/) - “I always say I’m more of a squawker than I am a talker, but I do the best I can,” Pinetop Perkins said with a laugh. Yesterday the 97-year-old blues legend left the earth after almost eight decades of what he deemed squawking.
- [Behind the Songs of Norah Jones](https://performingsongwriter.com/behind-the-songs-of-norah-jones/) - Behind a few of Norah Jones' songs: "Sunrise," "Come Away With Me," "Don't Miss You At All," "The Prettiest Thing," and "Don't Know Why."
- [The Independent Spirit of Amy Ray](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-independent-spirit-of-amy-ray/) - In addition to her work with the Indigo Girls, Ray has also released four solo albums and launched and run the independent and not-for-profit Daemon Records for 21 years.
- [The Soul Legend Al Green](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-soul-legend-al-green/) - Al Green approaches conversations in much the same way he does the sermons he gives as a bishop at the Full Gospel Tabernacle Baptist church in Memphis: He just opens his mouth, trusting that the words will come.
- [In Tribute to Bill Morrissey](https://performingsongwriter.com/in-tribute-to-bill-morrissey/) - Bill Morrissey, who passed away on July 23, 2011, was revered. He was studied. He was a kind and patient teacher of the supreme importance of words. Of tradition. Of art with purpose. Of writing truth instead of fact. But mostly he was a beloved friend.
- [Tom Paxton, Our Favorite Ramblin' Boy](https://performingsongwriter.com/tom-paxton/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-8px|||||” custom_padding=”17px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||2px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”http://performingsongwriter.com///wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tom-Paxton.jpeg” title_text=”Tom-Paxton” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-18px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]—By Lydia Hutchinson When the times were a-changin’, Tom Paxton was there. A true pioneer of the 1960s folk movement, Tom sang regularly at Greenwich
- [Jonatha Brooke: My Mother Has Four Noses](https://performingsongwriter.com/jonatha-brooke-my-mother-has-4-noses-emotional-connection/) - Jonatha Brooke’s vulnerable, emotionally powerful musical theater piece tells the story of serving as a care giver to her mother, who had dementia, during the final two years of her life. It’s a brilliant piece of art.
- [Yoko and me. A love story.](https://performingsongwriter.com/yoko-and-me-a-love-story/) - An essay by Grammy award-winning “From a Distance” songwriter Julie Gold about the moment she and Yoko Ono shared on what would have been John Lennon’s 64th birthday in 2004.
- [A Conversation With Karla Bonoff](https://performingsongwriter.com/a-conversation-with-karla-bonoff/) - Songwriter Catie Curtis interviewed Karla Bonoff for Performing Songwriter in 2000. They sat at Karla's kitchen table in her Santa Barbara cottage and talked about songs.
- [The Dark Humor of Donald Fagen](https://performingsongwriter.com/donald-fagen/) - In the followng 2006 interview with Performing Songwriter, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen discusses a multitude of factors that have shaped his work thus far.
- [Steady On with Shawn Colvin](https://performingsongwriter.com/shawn-colvin/) - An archived interview with Shawn Colvin for the cover of the second edition of Performing Songwriter, 1993.
- [Smokey Robinson: The Master of Motown](https://performingsongwriter.com/smokey-robinson-the-master-of-motown/) - At 16, Smokey Robinson crossed paths with a young lyricist named Berry Gordy Jr. Little did either man know just how fruitful that relationship would become.
- [The Musical Compass of David Wilcox](https://performingsongwriter.com/david-wilcox/) - For David Wilcox, music is a personal compass for finding his way home. Lining it up with something deep inside, his words become image-filled poetry that dance to an internal rhythm.
- [The Singular Voice of k.d. lang](https://performingsongwriter.com/kd-lang/) - Pushing boundaries has always been at the center of k.d. lang’s existence as an artist. Whether subverting the conventions of country music or fusing disparate musical genres, she is one of the most intriguing artists in pop music.
- [Rickie Lee Jones' Feast of Dreams](https://performingsongwriter.com/rickie-lee-jones-feast-of-dreams/) - In September, 1995, Jonatha Brooke interviewed Rickie Lee Jones for the cover of Performing Songwriter. It was the first time we’d had an artist interview an artist, and it turned out to be one of our most compelling articles.
- [A Tribute to Kenny Edwards](https://performingsongwriter.com/tribute-kenny-edwards/) - A tribute to musician Kenny Edwards who died Aug. 18, 2010. He was an original member of Linda Ronstadt's Stone Poneys, supergroup Bryndle, and a solo artist.
- [Rock's Mysterious Deaths: Sam Cooke](https://performingsongwriter.com/mysterious-death-sam-cooke/) - Sam Cooke was shot to death on Dec. 10, 1964 outside an L.A. Motel under mysterious circumstances. With many questions left unanswered, Performing Songwriter takes a look at that fateful night.
- [The Perseverance of Michael Johnson](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-perseverance-of-michael-johnson/) - A tribute to the brilliant singer, songwriter and artist Michael Johnson, who died on July 25, 2017, along with an essay he wrote for Performing Songwriter: “Thoughts on Perseverance.”
- [David Bowie's Stories Behind His Songs](https://performingsongwriter.com/david-bowie-songs/) - Stories behind a few of David Bowie's songs excerpted from a 2003 interview with Performing Songwriter.
- [Rock's FBI Files: John Lennon](https://performingsongwriter.com/john-lennon-fbi-files/) - In March 1972 John Lennon’s visa was revoked and deportation proceedings were filed after President Nixon decided the most dangerous man in America was a singer-songwriter with bad eyesight and a British accent.
- [Alan Freed and the Radio Payola Scandal](https://performingsongwriter.com/alan-freed-payola-scandal/) - On Nov. 20, 1959, DJ Alan Freed was fired from WABC radio when the pay-for-play scandal erupted. Here’s the story behind that era of pay-for-play, when the ’50s music scene was the convergence of a number of seismic factors.
- [Stories From Elvis Presley's Band](https://performingsongwriter.com/stories-from-elvis-presleys-band/) - Rare stories from the band who backed Elvis Presley in his final years: Glen D. Hardin, James Burton, Ronnie Tutt and Jerry Scheff.
- [Notorious Rock Managers: Colonel Tom Parker](https://performingsongwriter.com/elvis-presley-tom-parker/) - These aren’t your garden variety rock managers. They are the bigger than life, Svengali-meets-Al Capone figures. Here we look at Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
- [Rock's Mysterious Deaths: Jeff Buckley](https://performingsongwriter.com/jeff-buckley/) - In the days following his disappearance, many of Jeff Buckley’s friends refused to believe he had drowned. Jeff had a habit of disappearing for days at a time. Maybe he was just hiding out. Maybe he wanted to escape the pressures of recording his second album.
- [Rock's Mysterious Deaths: Kurt Cobain](https://performingsongwriter.com/kurt-cobain-mysterious-death/) - The death of Kurt Cobain on April 5, 1994 left unsolved questions, inconclusive evidence and lingering suspicions, and each year the mysteries are re-examined and new theories hatched.
- [Rock's Urban Legends: Paul is Dead](https://performingsongwriter.com/paul-mccartney-not-dead/) - Did McCartney die in 1966? His mere presence on earth 60 years later would seem to suggest the answer is no. Yet this granddaddy of rock urban legends persists.
- [Rock's FBI Files: Jim Morrison](https://performingsongwriter.com/jim-morrison-pardon/) - Over 50 years after the fact, Jim Morrison was posthumously pardoned by Florida’s Clemency Board. But the story actually started before the questionable incident for which he was convicted.
- ["Louie, Louie"](https://performingsongwriter.com/louie-louie/) - The world’s most infamous party song was penned by Richard Berry, a 21-year-old L.A. sideman and songwriter. Ot was originally conceived as a sailor’s lament.
- [A Visit With Mary Travers](https://performingsongwriter.com/mary-travers-birthday/) - From the moment Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey & Mary Travers started singing together in the heady days of the Greenwich Village folk boom, they’ve forged their three separate identities into a unified force made stronger by their diversity.
- [The Living Soul of Ashford & Simpson](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-living-soul-of-ashford-simpson/) - Pulsing locomotive rhythms, heartbeat-thumping bass lines and melodies that soar with all the love and wonder of a human spirit in full-flight—that’s an Ashford & Simpson song.
- [The Many Styles of Bruce Hornsby](https://performingsongwriter.com/bruce-hornsby-interview/) - Bruce Hornsby, a mind-boggling piano virtuoso who runs the gamut stylistically from jazz to bluegrass, didn’t actually start playing the keyboard until he was about 17 years old.
- [Tom Waits Quotes and Quips](https://performingsongwriter.com/tom-waits-quotes-quips/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-1px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||10px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”http://performingsongwriter.com///wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Tom-Waits-piano.jpg” title_text=”Tom-Waits-piano” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”3px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-39px|||||” custom_padding=”33px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Tom Waits is as much of a character as any of the hundreds of freaks, carnies and people waiting for salvation at the bottom
- ["Take Me Out to the Ballgame"](https://performingsongwriter.com/take-me-out-to-the-ballgame/) - Jack Norworth never cared much for baseball, but he wrote a song about the game that sports fans have been belting out for almost 120 years.
- ["Autumn Leaves"](https://performingsongwriter.com/autumn-leaves/) - It’s a tale of two torch songs. The original, written in French as “Les Feuilles Mortes” (literally, “Dead Leaves”) was a dark lament of lost love and regret. The translated version, “Autumn Leaves,” touched on the same theme, but in a gentler, more wistful way.
- ["Nights in White Satin"](https://performingsongwriter.com/justin-haywards-nights-white-satin/) - At the time when I wrote “Nights In White Satin” I didn’t own many things in the world," Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward said. "But I did own something totally useless which was a set of white satin sheets that this girlfriend of mine had given me."
- ["Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds"](https://performingsongwriter.com/lucy-sky-diamonds/) - In February 1967, John Lennon’s four-year-old son Julian came home from nursery school with a painting that he’d done of his classmate, Lucy O’Donnell. When John asked his son about the picture, which showed a girl floating among the stars, Julian replied, “It’s Lucy, in the sky, with diamonds.”
- [Farewell, Phoebe Snow](https://performingsongwriter.com/phoebe-snow/) - An archived interview with Phoebe Snow who died April 26, 2011. In it she talks about the writing of "Poetry Man."
- ["Happy Birthday to You"](https://performingsongwriter.com/happy-birthday/) - "Happy Birthday to You" began its life in 1893. Written by two sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill, it was originally entitled “Good Morning to All,” and intended as a classroom greeting from teachers to students.
- ["Rock Around the Clock"](https://performingsongwriter.com/bill-haley-comets-rock-around-clock/) - The American Legion and the Boy Scouts denounced it. The New York Times called it “nightmarish and bloodcurdling.” And after it incited a near riot in a local theater, the city of Memphis banned “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets..
- ["Picture Book"](https://performingsongwriter.com/ray-davies-kinks-picture-book/) - I always knew that song would have its day,” Ray Davies says of 1968’s “Picture Book.” “Sometimes you just know. It was never a hit, but it’s become a hit in another way.”
- ["The Andy Griffith Show" Theme](https://performingsongwriter.com/andy-griffith-show-theme-song/) - The Andy Griffith Show‘s theme song, "The Fishin' Hole," was written by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer with (rarely heard) lyrics by Everett Sloane.
- ["The Highwayman"](https://performingsongwriter.com/jimmy-webb-highwayman/) - Jimmy Webb tells the story behind the writing of "The Highwayman" which became a hit for the super group of Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.
- [Stephen Stills' Creative Passion](https://performingsongwriter.com/stephen-stills-interview/) - Stephen Stills shares his passion for songwriting and approach to the guitar in this interview from Performing Songwriter’s archives.
- ["I Want To Hold Your Hand"](https://performingsongwriter.com/beatles-i-want-to-hold-your-hand/) - The story behind “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” a song written by Lennon and McCartney in response to their manager, asking them to write something for the American market.
- ["I Love Lucy" Theme Song](https://performingsongwriter.com/i-love-lucy/) - On October 15, 1951, the very first episode of the I Love Lucy show aired on CBS and became the most watched TV show in the U.S. for four of its seven-year run. Here’s the story behind the theme song.
- ["(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"](https://performingsongwriter.com/otis-redding-sittin-dock-bay/) - The story behind the writing of Otis Redding's hit song, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay".
- ["God Bless America"](https://performingsongwriter.com/god-bless-america/) - As America’s most successful songwriter, the 50-year-old Irving Berlin penned an anthem that would inspire his fellow men to live in harmony.
- ["Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"](https://performingsongwriter.com/raindrops-fallin-head/) - By late 1969, Burt Bacharach and Hal David were kings of the pop songwriting game, with their biggest hit was just around the corner.
- [Cindy Walker](https://performingsongwriter.com/cindy-walker/) - One of the greatest country songwriters who ever lived, Texan Cindy Walker penned such classics as You Don’t Know Me, Anna Maria, and Dream Baby.
- [Donovan](https://performingsongwriter.com/donovan/) - Donovan talks about his experiences with the Beatles on their famous retreat to India in 1968, and shares the story behind his hit “Sunshine Superman.”
- [Neil Young's "Ohio"](https://performingsongwriter.com/neil-young-ohio/) - On May 4, 1970, a student protest at Kent State left four students dead, one paralyzed and eight others wounded. Neil Young, affected by Life Magazine's coverage, wrote this song in a few hours.
- ["The Christmas Song"](https://performingsongwriter.com/christmas-song/) - "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ..."The story behind Mel Torme's writing "The Christmas Song" during a sweltering summer day.
- ["Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"](https://performingsongwriter.com/rudolph-rednosed-reindeer/) - The story behind Bob Mays’ beloved Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a story written to comfort his daughter and was turned into a best-selling Christmas song.
- ["The Girl From Ipanema"](https://performingsongwriter.com/girl-from-ipanema/) - The story behind “The Girl From Ipanema,” the second-most recorded song in history by composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and the poet Vinícius de Moraes.
- ["Mercedes Benz"](https://performingsongwriter.com/janis-joplin-mercedes-benz/) - It’s Thursday, Oct. 1, 1970 at the Sunset Sound recording studio in Los Angeles. Janis Joplin asks producer Paul Rothchild to roll tape. She has a song she’d like to sing.
- ["Heartbreak Hotel"](https://performingsongwriter.com/heartbreak-hotel/) - On Jan. 10, 1956, Elvis Presley went into Nashville’s RCA Studio to record “Heartbreak Hotel” which went on to become his first #1 hit.
- ["From A Distance"](https://performingsongwriter.com/from-a-distance/) - Julie Gold tells the story of writing the Grammy-winning song “From A Distance” while she was a still secretary at HBO, and how it changed her life.
- [Hal David](https://performingsongwriter.com/hal-david/) - Hal David wrote what amounts to a pop music encyclopedia of classic hits: “Walk On By,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “The Look of Love,” “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” “One Less Bell to Answer” and many others.
- [Nat King Cole](https://performingsongwriter.com/nat-king-cole/) - A look at Nat King Cole, a man with one of the most influential pianists and memorable voices in American music.
- [Henry Mancini](https://performingsongwriter.com/henry-mancini/) - A look at songwriter Henry Mancini and his compositions including “Moon River” and the theme from “The Pink Panther.”
- [Stephen Foster](https://performingsongwriter.com/stephen-foster/) - The story of America’s first professional songwriter, Stephen Foster, who penned such classics as “Oh! Susanna,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.”
- [Felice and Boudleaux Bryant](https://performingsongwriter.com/felice-and-boudleaux-bryant/) - Behind the legendary songwriting duo of such classics as “Wake Up Little Susie,” “Bye Bye Love,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Love Hurts” and “Rocky Top.”
- [Mark Ronson](https://performingsongwriter.com/mark-ronson/) - From Amy Winehouse to Bob Dylan, Mark Ronson has established himself as a producer who’s just as eager to work with legends in the making as living legends.
- [Tony Visconti](https://performingsongwriter.com/tony-visconti/) - Best known for his groundbreaking work with David Bowie and Marc Bolan, Tony Visconti has been creating magic behind the boards for the past 40-plus years.
- [Don Was](https://performingsongwriter.com/don-was/) - Grammy-winning record producer Don Was shares studio stories and insight on his work with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, Kris Kristofferson and more.
- [Behind the Songs of Loretta Lynn](https://performingsongwriter.com/behind-the-songs-of-loretta-lynn/) - The stories behind Loretta Lynn's songs "Honky Tonk Girl," "Your Squaw Is On the Warpath," "Fist City," and "Dear Uncle Sam."
- [Phil Ramone](https://performingsongwriter.com/phil-ramone/) - The countless accomplishments spread across Phil Ramone’s six decades in the world of music production all spring from one vital principle: He wanted you to hear what he heard.
- ["Okie From Muskogee"](https://performingsongwriter.com/merle-haggard-okie-muskogee/) - Merle Haggard recalls the inspiration behind his polarizing 1969 anthem, “Okie From Muskogee”
- [The Optimistic Life of Stevie Wonder](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-optimistic-life-of-stevie-wonder/) - A working definition of Stevie Wonder's brand of soul music could be optimism in the face of heartbreak. His life has been full of both.
- ["The Lion Sleeps Tonight"](https://performingsongwriter.com/lion-sleeps-tonight/) - Wimoweh. For the last 50 years, that happy little word has been a universally recognized shorthand for the song known as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” But its history is anything but happy.
- ["What's Going On"](https://performingsongwriter.com/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on/) - The story behind Marvin Gaye's enduring classic, "What's Going On."
- [Behind Elvis Costello's Songs](https://performingsongwriter.com/behind-elvis-costellos-songs/) - Stories behind Elvis Costello's songs "Watching the Detectives," "Man Out of Time," "Everyday I Write the Book," "So Like Candy," "Mistress and Maid," and "Indoor Fireworks."
- [The Songs of Dan Fogelberg](https://performingsongwriter.com/dan-fogelberg-interview-songs/) - An archived interview with Dan Fogelberg where he tells the stories behind some of his songs.
- [The Sherman Brothers](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-sherman-brothers/) - Richard and Robert Sherman tell the stories behind working with Walt Disney and writing the classic songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and more.
- [The Remarkable Life of Dolly Parton](https://performingsongwriter.com/the-remarkable-life-of-dolly-parton/) - Dolly parton talks about her favorite subject—songwriting. Included is the story behind “I Will Always Love You” and turning down Elvis Presley when he wanted to record it.
- ["Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane"](https://performingsongwriter.com/strawberry-fields-penny-lane/) - In Feb. 1967 the Beatles released a double-A side single of “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” which opened the doors to the wonders of Sgt. Pepper. Here’s the story.
- [Rosanne Cash: Architecture For The Soul](https://performingsongwriter.com/rosanne-cash-essay-on-creativity/) - Rosanne Cash's essay for Performing Songwritert on how important art is in our lives, and how vital it is for us to be truthful when we’re creating.
- [Peter Collins](https://performingsongwriter.com/peter-collins/) - Peter Collins was the man behind the boards for records by such diverse artists as Queensryche, Indigo Girls, Brian Setzer and Nanci Griffith.
- ["Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"](https://performingsongwriter.com/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/) - The story behind Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"
- [Remembering J.J. Cale](https://performingsongwriter.com/remembering-jj-cale/) - An archived interview with J.J. Cale from his home in Southern California, when the then-70-year-old talked about guitars, songwriting and why he decided early on to avoid the limelight.
- [T Bone Burnett](https://performingsongwriter.com/t-bone-burnett/) - T Bone Burnett has produced records by everyone from Alison Krauss/Robert Plant to Roy Orbison, and blockbuster soundtracks including O Brother, Where Art Thou.
- ["Falling Slowly"](https://performingsongwriter.com/swell-season-falling-slowly/) - Glen Hansard formulated a simple stairstep guitar progression and an opening line: “I don’t know you, but I want you” for "Falling Slowly," the Oscar-winning song for the film "Once."
- [The Texas Tradition of Lyle Lovett](https://performingsongwriter.com/lyle-lovett-interview/) - Excepts from a Performing Songwriter interview with Lyle Lovett where he discusses his songs and approach to writing.
- [Lloyd Maines](https://performingsongwriter.com/lloyd-maines/) - Lloyd Maines is an in-demand pedal steel player and producer of some of Texas' finest albums from Jerry Jeff Walker to Terri Hendrix and Bruce Robison.
- [Tommy Lipuma](https://performingsongwriter.com/tommy-lipuma/) - For over five decades Tommy Lipuma produced records for some of the best-known names in jazz and pop: Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, George Benson, Natalie Cole and Diana Krall to name but a few.
- [Jim Dickinson](https://performingsongwriter.com/jim-dickinson/) - A 2005 interview with the late Jim Dickinson about his work with Alex Chilton, Paul Westerberg and his North Mississippi Allstar sons Luther and Cody.
- [Richard Rodgers](https://performingsongwriter.com/richard-rodgers/) - A look back at the life of legendary composer Richard Rodgers and his work including Sound of Music and Oklahoma with co-writers Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein.
- [Bob Ezrin](https://performingsongwriter.com/bob-ezrin/) - Record producer Bob Ezrin talks about his work on such seminal records as Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Lou Reed’s Berlin.
- ["(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"](https://performingsongwriter.com/rolling-stones-satisfaction/) - In 1965 The Rolling Stones were in the middle of their second US tour as headliners and needed a defining single that would put them over the top.
- ["Mardi Gras Mambo" and "Iko Iko"](https://performingsongwriter.com/mardi-gras-music/) - Mardi Gras and music go together like red beans and rice and coffee and beignets. Here’s the story behind two songs that are Fat Tuesday favorites: “Iko Iko” and “Mardi Gras Mambo.”
- [Bonnie Raitt: Celebrating Songwriters at Nashville's Ryman](https://performingsongwriter.com/bonnie-raitt-celebrating-songwriters-nashville-ryman/) - Bonnie Raitt is the Fairy Godmother of songwriters, turning dreams into reality one song at a time. And last Saturday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium her magical powers were on full display.
- [Amy Grant: A Season of Songs](https://performingsongwriter.com/amy-grant-a-season-of-songs/) - Twenty years after Lead Me On made her a superstar in the world of Contemporary Christian music, Amy Grant has revisited that period with an anniversary tour—and found her greatest songs lay ahead.
- [Paul Simon's "René and Georgette Magritte"](https://performingsongwriter.com/paul-simon-rene-georgette-magritte-dog-war/) - In 1983 Paul Simon released Hearts and Bones that included “René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War,” a gem of a song that many fans will agree is one of the best Simon has ever written.
- [Orrin Keepnews](https://performingsongwriter.com/orrin-keepnews/) - Orrin Keepnews, one of the most respected producers in jazz history, played an integral role in the birth of modern jazz.
- ["Our House"](https://performingsongwriter.com/graham-nash-our-house/) - Here is the story—in Graham Nash’s own words—behind the classic “Our House,” one of the sweetest love songs ever written while he was living with Joni Mitchell.
- [At The Bluebird](https://performingsongwriter.com/at-the-bluebird/) - An unexpected performance at the Bluebird Cafe...one of life's smiling surprises.
- [The Bluebird Cafe Documentary](https://performingsongwriter.com/bluebird-cafe-documentary/) - Lydia Hutchinson at the Tennessee premiere of the Bluebird Cafe documentary with founder Amy Kurland.
- [They Can't Take That Away From Me](https://performingsongwriter.com/they-cant-take-that-away-from-me/) - Facing fears and singing "They Can't Take That Away From Me" at the Jazz Workshop, Lydia Hutchinson tells the story of the song's meaning for her and her mother.
- [Birthdays and Time](https://performingsongwriter.com/birthdays-and-time/) - The joy of time and the slowness of it are celebrated by Lydia Hutchinson on her birthday.
- [Goodbye, John Prine](https://performingsongwriter.com/goodbye-john-prine/) - Farewell to John Prine, who left us on April 7, 2020. A tribute of memories of him by Lydia Hutchinson.
- [Waiting 'Round the Bend](https://performingsongwriter.com/waiting-round-the-bend/) - A memory by Lydia Hutchinson of facing her fear singing "Moon River" for a jazz vocal class, and where those acts of bravery can lead us.
- [Farewell to My Friend, Marilyn Bergman](https://performingsongwriter.com/farewell-to-my-friend-marilyn-bergman/) - A tribute by Lydia Hutchinson to legendary lyricist and friend Marilyn Bergman who died Jan. 8, 2022.
- [There You Are](https://performingsongwriter.com/there-you-are/) - A song for my father on what would have been his 100th birthday. Written and performing by Lydia Hutchinson.
- ["Somewhere Over the Rainbow"](https://performingsongwriter.com/somewhere-over-the-rainbow/) - he story behind The Wizard Of Oz’s classic theme “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harbug, and performed by Judy Garland.
- [Buddy Holly’s Final Ed Sullivan Appearance](https://performingsongwriter.com/buddy-holly-ed-sullivan/) - On January 26, 1958, Buddy Holly and the Crickets made their second and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show—this time earning the well-known wrath of the host.
- [The Beatles' White Album](https://performingsongwriter.com/beatles-white-album/) - On Nov. 22, 1968 the Beatles released their 9th official album, the 2-record, 30-song masterpiece known as the White Album.
- [Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!](https://performingsongwriter.com/charlie-brown-christmas/) - On Dec. 9, 1965 ‘Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown’ became synonymous with the holiday when “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and its Vince Guaraldi soundtrack aired for the first time.
- [Frank Sinatra: The Stories Behind His Songs](https://performingsongwriter.com/frank-sinatra-songs/) - Frank Sinatra was the best friend a song ever had. We have the stories behind some of his greatest hits— like “Nice ‘n’ Easy,” “My Way,” “It Was a Very Good Year,” “All the Way,” and “The Best Is Yet to Come”—told by the songwriters.
- [Bono’s Defining Moment: Live Aid, July 13, 1985](https://performingsongwriter.com/bono-live-aid/) - The 1985 Live Aid event is the perfect example of how U2 frontman Bono masterfully understands the emotional heft that can be communicated by just the right gesture.
- ["Whatever Gets You Thru The Night"](https://performingsongwriter.com/john-lennon-gets-you-thru-night/) - In 1974, John Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” became his first and only chart-topping solo single during his lifetime. It was from his Walls and Bridges album and featured Elton John on harmony vocals and piano.
- [Farewell, Andrew Gold](https://performingsongwriter.com/farewell-andrew-gold/) - The music world lost a great songwriter, musician, singer and extraordinary friend when Andrew Gold passed away during the on June 3.
- [Farewell, Nick Ashford](https://performingsongwriter.com/farewell-nick-ashford/) - Farewell to Nick Ashford, writer of such hits as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "I'm Every Woman" and "You're All I Need to Get By" with his wife and writing partner Valerie Simpson.
- [In Tribute to Jerry Leiber](https://performingsongwriter.com/jerry-leiber-tribute/) - “Mr. Disorderly Conduct.” That’s what Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler dubbed the lovably verbose lyricist who made up half of the legendary songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller.
- [The Star Spangled Banner v. America the Beautiful?](https://performingsongwriter.com/national-anthem/) - A look at "The Star Spangled Banner" and the song that was almost our national anthem, "America the Beautiful."
- [Martin Luther King: Oh, You Beautiful Fool](https://performingsongwriter.com/mlk-beautiful-fool/) - Performing Songwriter celebrates the memory of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. today with “Beautiful Fool,” a song of hope and dreams by Don Henry.
- [In Memory of Jill Sobule](https://performingsongwriter.com/in-memory-of-jill-sobule/) - A tribute by Lydia Hutchinson to Jill Sobule who died tragically May 1, 2025.
- ["One More Song" For The Bergmans](https://performingsongwriter.com/one-more-song-for-the-bergmans/) - With the passing of Alan Bergman on July 17, 2025, here is a tribute by Lydia Hutchinson and the video of "One More Song."

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- [Beth Nielsen Chapman: Full Vocal Presence](https://performingsongwriter.com/bnc-vocal-march-2026/) - Beth Nielsen Chapman will help you tap into the power of singing with least effort from the natural tone of your speaking voice in this Nashville vocal workshop, March 25-28, 2026.
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- [A Creative Retreat to Tuscany](https://performingsongwriter.com/tuscan-retreat-2026/) - Performing Songwriter's Creative Retreat to Tuscany is Oct. 25-Nov. 1, 2026 with Suzy Bogguss the as guest teacher.
- [Matt Rollings: Melody and Harmony in Songwriting](https://performingsongwriter.com/matt-rollings-may-2026/) - Matt Rollings' 'Melody and Harmony in Songwriting' workshop will be held May 27-30, 2026 at Nashville's Ocean Way Studio. Limited to 10 PSCW alums.
- [Emily Saliers: Using Imagery to Connect](https://performingsongwriter.com/emily-saliers-may-2026/) - Emily Saliers' will work with 15 alums of PSCW on using imagery in songwriting during her May 6-9, 2026 Nashville workshop.
- [A Creative Retreat to Mexico](https://performingsongwriter.com/mexico-january-2026/) - Performing Songwriter's Retreat to Mexico with Verlon Thompson as the guest teacher will take place in San Miguel de Allende, January 22-27, 2026.
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## DP Testimonials

- [Jimmy Webb](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/jimmy-webb/) - When I was 19, I wrote a musical called Dancing Girl, and I wanted to play it for [singer] Tony Martin, who starred in a lot of MGM pictures. He was appearing at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, so I got the money together and flew up there with my script. I’m not sure
- [Carole King](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/carole-king/) - To create art, there has to be an emotional connection. Making it vulnerable is part of that connection on the part of the artist. If it’s just business, then fine; you can sell a lot of records by making something that’s commercial. But if there’s no emotional connection in it, I don’t think it’s art.
- [Rickie Lee Jones](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/rickie-lee-jones/) - "Songs are architectural, living, changing aural environments. It’s difficult to disassemble them. Some lines are just a part of your life—you sing them over and over again. But for the most part, the songs that I don’t use don’t get found anywhere. They are rather developers, things that lead to other, better songs, hopefully. But
- [Lionel Richie](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/lionel-richie/) - "The easiest thing to write is a difficult song. Just play a bunch of chords and hit a bunch of melodies. OK, congratulations, you’re a songwriter. Now, can you write a song that people can name in four notes? If you can do that, you, my friend, have done the hardest thing in the world:
- [Les Paul](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/les-paul/) - "You don’t want to be held back because of a lack of technique. Technique is practice. But technique is not where it’s at. Where it’s really at is what you do with what you got. The key to it is to say something with your instrument, so it’s like a conversation. You’re getting a message
- [Lyle Lovett](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/lyle-lovett/) - “There’s a feeling when I’m on to an idea and making something up that’s almost a momentum that carries me and I find pushes me into the next verse. It’s not really a matter of doing an outline. And you know in school we were always taught to do an outline, and I never did
- [Annie Lennox](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/annie-lennox/) - “You’re never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it’s rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.” —Annie Lennox Issue 91,
- [Loretta Lynn](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/loretta-lynn/) - I never thought I could sing. Doo would come in from working and catch me rocking my babies to sleep. And I would be singing, “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas …” (laughs). That was the only song that I could sing to them that would make them go to sleep. He came in one
- [Randy Newman](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/randy-newman/) - I'd like to believe, whether it's true or not, that I’m getting better—or at least that I’m not getting worse. Music is so complicated that it’s something you can always get better at. I don’t understand the fact that most singer-songwriters in pop music do their best work at a young age. If I thought
- [Joan Armatrading](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/joan-armatrading/) - When I am writing a song, say, a blues song, it’s not up to me to try to make it a reggae song. Because the songs tell you, “I am a blues song. I am not a reggae song.” Maybe when it’s finished and it’s in its pure form, somebody else could take it and
- [Steve Winwood](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/steve-winwood/) - I don’t think songwriter ever gets easier. It certainly doesn’t get any less interesting. It’s still fascinating and there’s still no easy solution with songwriting. It’s a vast skill or craft or art or whatever it may be. I never think I know how to do it, so I keep a respect for the process
- [Laura Nyro](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/laura-nyro/) - I think that in music there’s a oneness, there’s a sweetness. Or there can be. What I call music, anyway … the music I like. I go to it for that oneness and that sweetness. If you look at the world, there’s so much separation. There are polarities and wars. But to sense a oneness
- [Lamont Dozier](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/lamont-dozier/) - When I got to Motown, I had an idea—I wanted to get rid of this stigma of “race music.” There were some nasty events that happened to me as a child, racial things. I figured that music could bring people together. It was that one common denominator that could get around all obstacles, all hatreds
- [Ani DiFranco](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/ani-difranco/) - I think it’s important to tell our stories – just to add it to the soup – because I think in the end it’s more flavorful than if there were only a few. Especially for people who can’t see their stories on TV or read them in history books and stand up for themselves. Their
- [Marc Cohn](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/marc-cohn/) - I have found that there’s just meant to be cycles to creativity. There are times when you’re going to be extremely creative and times when you’re not, and I think the times you’re not heeds the next part of the cycle. And that’s definitely happened with me over and over and over again. For as
- [Stevie Nicks](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/stevie-nicks/) - I think, for me—because I haven’t been in a horrible marriage and I don’t have delinquent children that I’m trying to get through college—I haven’t had a lot of those bad experiences that really twist people’s minds. That’s when you stop writing about love, and you stop writing about the possibility of love, and when
- [Lou Reed](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/lou-reed/) - I don’t know how [songwriting] works. I have thought about this a lot and I haven’t made any progress. It’s a mystery. Which is great, actually. I like that it’s a mystery. It’s not something I can unravel. It’s like trying to figure out how we got here. It’s involved with that. It makes no
- [Don Was](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/don-was/) - I remember the first day I ever recorded with Dylan. The assistant engineer ran a cassette of the session, and there’s a moment where Bob is standing at the piano trying to tell me what he wants to do next, and I’m arguing with him. I had a preconception about what Bob Dylan should sound
- [Vince Gill](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/vince-gill/) - You’ve got all kinds of different elements that make up country music. I mean when I think of country music it’s still to me Hank Williams and three chords—that sensibility more than hook lines and repeating the chorus and signatures for guitarists to play, you know what I mean? It seemed to be a lot
- [Butch Vig](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/butch-vig/) - When something rocks, it’s because of the way it feels. It’s not necessarily because of the guitar sound. I have noticed—and I’m sometimes guilty as charged—that Pro Tools has made the process of recording bands much easier. You can take bands that aren’t particularly good and make them sound super-slick. And there’s nothing wrong with
- [John Mayer](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/john-mayer/) - I started to learn somewhere between Heavier Things and Continuum that it wasn’t up to me when I was ready to write. I spent a lot of time sitting at the desk, or sitting with a guitar, with no songs coming. I’ve learned to know when a song is actually coming—how you can feel it,
- [Mary Chapin Carpenter](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/mary-chapin-carpenter/) - Patience is definitely a virtue for writers. I think if you really do what we’ve been talking about — to try to keep your eyes open — then something will hit you without you even realizing it. While you’re flipping through the paper…or having a conversation with someone and they say something a certain way
- [Dan Penn](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/dan-penn/) - Otis Redding was one of the best producers. He didn’t really get the credit at Stax, but it was him putting those records together. I mean, Steve Cropper and all those guys were definitely helping him. But I got to watch him at Fame and if there was a genius running around, it was Otis.
- [Alicia Keys](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/alicia-keys/) - Songwriting is never the same process, ever. That’s the humbling part. It’s magic—one minute it’s not there, and the next minute it’s there. That said, it begins with some type of inspiration. There has to be something that affects me in a way that’s strong enough to make me want to say something about it.
- [Brian McKnight](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/brian-mcknight/) - There are two different kinds of songwriters: the songwriter who writes strictly for the joy of being a writer and doesn’t care anything about the monetary aspects of it; and then you have the other guy who has this as his career. This is his job. This is his livelihood. And I’m somewhere in the
- [Alanis Morissette](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/alanis-morissette/) - “My songwriting process has come full circle. It’s exactly the way I wrote when I was 10. Usually I start with a note that I hit, and that starts a melody and lyric all at the same time. Or I’ll have a line written down that I know I want to sing about, and I’ll
- [Janis Ian](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/janis-ian/) - I think people write their best when they’re at their most sane and most rested, and when they feel safe. Any good work that happens when you’re in turmoil happens in spite of that turmoil. You may find yourself writing out of your life experience, and the more life experiences you have, obviously, the better
- [Buddy Guy](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/buddy-guy/) - When I was 6 I didn’t have nothing. I never saw a guitar, I didn’t know what it was. What I would do is go and strip the screen wire off the windows. You didn’t have air conditioning or no electric fan, and those mosquitoes in the Louisiana bayou are big enough to lift you
- [Tori Amos](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/tori-amos/) - You have to know what your theme is for each project and what it is that you’re whispering into people’s spines. I believe your spine responds to music in a way that it might not respond to visuals. That sound can reach inside you in a very primal way. I like to create these sonic
- [Don Henley](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/don-henley/) - "I would advise any aspiring artist to read books, read poetry, and listen to the songs of great writers. Being able to play an instrument well and knowing something about theory is great, but there are a hell of a lot more good players than there are good lyricists. There is a real gap in
- [Amy Grant](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/amy-grant/) - I’m harder to please now. Your standard goes up. It’s increasingly harder for me to move myself. And if I can’t be moved by an idea, there’s no chance somebody else is going to be moved. But I don’t feel like it’s my job to pump out songs every week anymore. Now it’s like fishing—I
- [John Legend](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/john-legend/) - You listen to music and use it to try to create something new, and who knows what’s going to come into your head. A song is a song. You produce a song, and at that moment when you produce it, that’s when you take it into a genre. Before you produce it, it’s just a
- [Jackson Browne](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/jackson-browne/) - About 20 years ago, there was this group of about five or 10 people who went downstairs after a party to a bar that had a piano. This woman asked me to play one of my songs that I hadn’t played in years [“Late For the Sky”]. I didn’t know it anymore, so she sat
- [Bonnie Raitt](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/bonnie-raitt/) - "If what I do with my music—and my passion for so many different kinds of music and songwriters and musicians—if that inspires people to listen to Sippie Wallace and appreciate the blues, or appreciate Richard Thompson or Paul Brady or John Prine or Jackson Browne, that would be so great. If I could have inspired
- [R.E.M.](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/rem/) - I’m finally at a place where I can separate thinking about a lyric and really working on a lyric, versus just allowing something to happen and letting it be what it is. That’s the conscious versus the unconscious voice. It’s really easy to write pop lyrics. It’s falling-off-a-log to write a song that everyone can
- [Ray LaMontagne](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/ray-lamontagne/) - A song happens whenever it wants to happen. If a melody strikes me, I’ll grab a guitar quickly and work it out. Sometimes it takes a while for the words to come, but I let those things happen on their own. If it happens right there and then, that’s great. I don’t interfere. Songs come
- [Harry Connick, Jr.](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/harry-connick-jr/) - I met Frank Sinatra a couple of times. I met him once when I was a kid and he patted me on the head. I was about 8 years old. I met him once when I was singing at his birthday party, for about a thousand people, I guess. It was a big concert where
- [Shawn Colvin](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/shawn-colvin/) - Some people are born songwriters, but I was not one of them. I was a born singer and a born performer. To this day performing doesn’t daunt me in the least, but songwriting terrifies me. It’s the hardest thing I do. It took a very long time for me to figure out who I was
- [Earth, Wind & Fire](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/earth-wind-fire/) - Verdine White: “What’s changed about our audience is that there are three different generations talking about Earth, Wind & Fire in three different ways. The older ones remember when they first started with us, they still hope we’re good, they hope we’re not as old as them. The middle audience comes to see us because
- [Chrissie Hynde](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/chrissie-hynde/) - I’ve got a good musical memory, and I can recognize when somebody is capable of greatness. I can hear it. When you’re outside a person and have some objectivity, you can guide them to doing what they’re good at. I can listen to them for 10 minutes and say, “Stop doing what you’re doing, and
- [Ray Davies](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/ray-davies/) - “You Really Got Me,” for example, I first wrote when I was about 13 or 14. I originally wrote it more like a folk song about cotton pickers and things—my sister still has that tape somewhere. Then when we needed to record a single, I was playing it to Dave on the piano in my
- [Elvis Costello](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/elvis-costello/) - Punk pretended that it was wiping everything away and starting fresh, like a Year Zero of music. That was bullshit. Punk was based on the Stooges and the New York Dolls. It just had a short memory. It didn’t invent it all again. It wasn’t atonalism. It wasn’t that radical. The radical aspect of it
- [Billy Joel](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/billy-joel/) - Right after The Stranger came out we were playing in the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, Penn., opening for the Doobie Brothers. We played ‘Just the Way You Are,’ and the audience started cheering wildly. We looked at each other like, ‘What the hell was that all about?’, not realizing that it had gotten a good
- [Pink](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/pink/) - I was a 4 Non Blondes fan and Linda Perry was one of the voices I connected with in my darkest moments as an adolescent. We went into her little studio and she said, ‘OK, how are you feeling today?’ and gave me a microphone and hit record. I got my little journals out and
- [Carly Simon](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/carly-simon/) - Co-writing can happen in so many different ways. In the case of “You Belong to Me,” the Doobie Brothers were doing the song for their album and using Ted Templeman as a producer, as they always did. There was a melody that Michael McDonald had written, and Teddy suggested that Michael call me and ask
- [Jerry Lee Lewis](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/jerry-lee-lewis/) - No, I didn’t push a piano in a river. It was an ocean (laughs). The Atlantic. I pushed this old piano out the back door of this theater in Florida and right down down the sidewalk and off into the water. Son, that was one bad piano. It floated pretty good, though. [From Issue 98,
- [John Mellencamp](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/john-mellencamp/) - I was on the fence about having my song used in the Chevrolet ad, because I had always said no to any commercial things. At the same time Chevrolet was talking to me about using “Our Country,” Tom Petty had just put out a new record [“Saving Grace”]. It was a really nice song, and I
- [Lesley Gore](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/lesley-gore/) - Quincy Jones and I finished our recording session about 5 o’clock the afternoon of March 30, 1963, and Quincy had to be at Carnegie Hall that night to host a party for Charles Aznavour, who was on the Mercury label. So Quincy was outside Carnegie Hall, and Phil Spector arrived at the concert and came
- [Donald Fagen](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/donald-fagen/) - Preventing our songs from becoming novelty songs were something Walter and I discussed, relative to Steely Dan albums. Essentially the question is, “How funny do you want to be?” We try not to let the songs become too much of a pastiche or parody. We don’t want to turn into Weird Al, or even Frank
- [Suzanne Vega](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/suzanne-vega/) - The weird thing is that the songs that take the longest are sometimes the quickest ones to write, because you can spend months thinking about an idea and then when you sit down to write it, it’ll take an hour or two. “The Queen and the Soldier,” even though it took months of thinking about
- [Herbie Hancock](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/herbie-hancock/) - Usually anyone is put into a pigeonhole according to the first thing they do that sticks. Whether it’s a dentist or a plumber or a painter, you get pigeonholed for particular things. There’s a tendency to stay in the comfort zone, because that’s where you’ve already been accepted. But my training from having worked with
- [Nick Lowe](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/nick-lowe/) - I don’t actually like rock music. I like rock ’n’ roll music. I know it’s a debate that isn’t exactly original, but the “roll” part of rock ’n’ roll is the interesting part. Any dimwit can play rock music, but the roll part of it is altogether more difficult. It’s subtle, and it’s rare to
- [Indigo Girls](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/indigo-girls/) - Amy Ray: I tend to write from a lot of different places, because I don’t like to write more than a few songs about one thing. I get bored easily, so I move around. But I tend to have lifelong things that I touch on. For one record, I kind of—I don’t know—have a short
- [Erykah Badu](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/erykah-badu/) - Artists have never gotten a fair deal, because the industry was not designed for the artist to be rich. It was designed for us to entertain, and for the labels to prosper, because they had to foot the bill for this “lavish life” that we live. Which is, in all honesty, as much of a
- [Richard Thompson](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/richard-thompson/) - I always felt that there was a point you could reach, and then you couldn’t go any further. You could be a British white interpreter of the blues—and I suppose the pinnacle of that would have been Peter Green, in the ’60s—but then how does someone like Peter Green compare to B.B. King? How does
- [Alice Cooper](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/alice-cooper/) - I get bands that come up to me, and they’ve got all kinds of image. They all look like Good Charlotte. I go, ‘Great image, you look terrific.’ And then I hear the song, and I go, ‘Okay, I get it, you’re angry’ (laughs). I tell them, ‘You’ve got a nice beat and this hook
- [Bruce Cockburn](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/bruce-cockburn/) - When I went to Baghdad I ended up being introduced to this young oud player—an Iraqi guy who’d studied in Egypt. He sang in Arabic, and played really quite beautifully. And then it was my turn, so I pulled out the dobro and just started screwing around thinking that I would sort of work my
- [Phil Collins](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/phil-collins/) - I remember people saying that was the Peter Gabriel drum sound, but I was the guy who played that stuff on the third album, “Intruder” and all that. It was as much mine, because with that kind of drum sound, you’re composing [sings drum beat from “Intruder”]. That was me, you know? I came up
- [Ben Harper](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/ben-harper/) - It's one thing to be a songwriter, but I’m about to go online and have some discussion about artwork. It’s okay that it takes more than songwriting [to be an artist]. That’s a funny thing about living in L.A. and Hollywood. Hollywood loves its accomplished, but it loathes its ambitious. Which I find an odd
- [Van Morrison](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/van-morrison/) - There’s no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They’ve got something to lose if they say it’s all poetry; if there’s not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind
- [Sara Bareilles](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/sara-bareilles/) - I know when a tune is done because it’s that same feeling as knowing you’re on to something when you’re starting a song. There’s that little period of time after a song is done when you want to make tweaks and adjustments. But I’m not very precious about those things, choosing one word over another.
- [John Prine](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/john-prine/) - I used to think you needed a strong image or something different in there, or something humorous, you know? I never thought about hooks or anything in my songs. But the longer I do it, the more I think you can say the simplest thing that’s been said many times before, and it’s the time
- [Todd Rundgren](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/todd-rundgren/) - The style of music may change, but the role of the songwriter is always to encapsulate an idea in either intellectual or emotional terms or both. Essentially what a songwriter is doing is packaging. They’re taking the things that people are talking about and the musical wallpaper, if you will, to life and integrating them
- [Patty Griffin](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/patty-griffin/) - I heard somebody talking recently about the first time they heard the Velvet Underground, and they said, “It’s folk music.” And I went, “Oh my god, it is folk music.” But it’s folk music about heroin. Nobody calls it folk, it just turned into its own thing. It’s better to keep people guessing what it
- [Jack White](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/jack-white/) - I’m careful not to do things for the sake of doing them. It has to come from the song. It has to come from a real natural spot. I don’t want to sit around with a cigar and go, ‘You know what we’re gonna have on this record?’ If you sit down and write out
- [Sheryl Crow](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/sheryl-crow/) - A lot of times I’d write stream-of-consciousness imagery and then go back to clarify it—but by the time I went to clarify, it would start making sense to me. It’s like a Beck song. You’re never really sure what he’s talking about, but if you listen to it enough times it starts to present meaning.
- [Kris Kristofferson](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/kris-kristofferson/) - Tell the truth and love songwriting for the right reasons. If you love it more than anything else, then you should do it. If you never get rich or famous, it doesn’t matter. If you’re in it for the love, that’s what matters. All of us, the guys who I was close to as writers,
- [Bill Withers](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/bill-withers/) - I feel really lucky, because I get offered record deals now. The funny thing is, right after I did “Just the Two of Us” with Grover [Washington Jr.], I tried to get a record deal and I couldn’t get one (laughs). So now that I don’t care, I get offers! I have a funny phrase.
- [Emmylou Harris](https://performingsongwriter.com/dipl-testimonial/emmylou-harris/) - I think learning to sing in the arena of country music was behind [my vocal restraint]. It was Gram Parsons who got me into country music, and harmonizing with him, which required even more restraint. Basically, you’re just learning to trust the melody and the lyric. We’re all just servants to the music. It’s not
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- [Triple A Radio Roundtable](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/triple-a-radio-roundtable/) - A roundtable disussion with leaders in the Triple-A Radio world on the state of radio. Our panel is Bruce Warren from Philadephia’s WXPN; Nic Harcourt from Los Angeles’ KCRW; Martin Bandyke from Detroit’s WDET; David Hall from Nashville’s WRLT; and Bryan Miller from the Internet-only WOXY.com. Also weighing in are artists Andy Poliakoff of Virginia Coalition; Barry Privett of Carbon Leaf; Aaron Marsh of Copeland; David Poe; Matt Nathanson; Ben Nichols of Lucero, Chris Hicken (a.k.a. Cantinero); Will Johnson; Adam Cohen of Low Millions; Robbie Fulks; Mark Miller of Dallas Orbiter; Stephen Kellogg; Jennifer O’Connor; Jim Boggia; Kevin Devine; and Chris Funk of the Decemberists. (From June 2005, Issue 86, 5 pages)
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- [Rock's Greatest Urban Legends](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/rocks-greatest-urban-legends/) - From death cover-ups to devil worship, skeletal remains to medical anomalies, the music world has had its own sideshow. In this article we look at a few of the most famous myths, and even get to the bottom of some! Included are Paul McCartney is dead, Mama Cass chokes to death on a ham sandwich, Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat, Charles Manson tries out for The Monkees, Keith Richards changed his blood, “Hotel California” is a song about devil worship, Gene Simmons has a cow’s tongue grafted onto his own, and Michael Jackson buys the Elephant Man. (From Mar/Apr 2006, Issue 92, 6 pages)
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- [Notorious Rock Managers](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/notorious-rock-managers/) - The entertaining and shocking stories behind rock’s most notorious managers. Meet Elvis Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker, who was also an illegal alien and didn’t allow Elvis to tour outside of the U.S.; Allen Klein who stepped in to manager the Beatles after Brian Epstein died—and snagged every group in the Beatles orbit including Herman’s Hermits, Donovan, the Animals, Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones; Led Zeppelin’s pit bull named Peter Grant; and Black Sabbath’s terrifying manager (and Sharon Osbourne’s father) Don Arden. (From Jan/Feb 2006, Issue 91, 5 pages)
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- [Henry Diltz's Parting Shots](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/henry-diltz-parting-shots/) - From our 100th issue celebration, here is a collection of some of our favorite photos of Henry’s that have appeared on our back page’s Parting Shot over the previous eight years. Included are Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Michelle Phillips, Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, The Doors, Keith Richards, America with Bob Hope and John Wayne, Joe Walsh, Laura Nyro, David Crosby, Neil Young, Bob Seger, David Cassidy, Elton John, Tom Waits, The Eagles, Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Bob Dylan, The Pointer Sisters, and The Monkees with Jack Nicholson. (From Mar/Apr 2007, Issue 100, 10 pages)
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- [Behind the Interviews](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/behind-the-interviews/) - From our 100th issue celebration, our writers have pulled back the curtain and told the stories behind some of our most memorable interviews. Here, Publisher and Editor Lydia Hutchinson, Senior Editor Bill DeMain, and frequent contributors Russell Hall and Chris Neal offer a few of their favorite memories from 14 years of going head-to-head and heart-to-heart with music’s biggest names. (From Mar/Apr 2007, Issue 100, 17 pages)
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- [40 Years in the Life of Sgt. Pepper](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/40-years-in-the-life-of-sgt-pepper/) - In 1967, the Beatles unleashed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” upon an unsuspecting world. Take a look inside the production, packaging and persistent influence of a musical masterpiece. Included is an interview with engineer Geoff Emerick, a look at the faces in the crowd on the album cover, the controversy surrounding the Sgt. Pepper costumes, the urban legend that Paul is dead, and the stories behind the songs “A Day In the Life,” “Getting Better,” “She’s Leaving Home,” and “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds.”(From Jul/Aug 2007, Issue 103, 9 pages)
- [99 Greatest Songs](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/99-greatest-songs/) - Thousands of Performing Songwriter readers voted on what they thought were the best songs ever written … and here are the results! Also included is background on the writing of each one, with quotes from artists and producers. (From Jan/Feb 2007, Issue 99, 8 pages)
- [Issue 89, November 2005](https://performingsongwriter.com/product/issue-89-november-2005/) - Interviews with The Cars’ Ric Ocasek, Chuck D., Phish’s Trey Anastasio, Dolly Parton, Al Kooper, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, producer Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, and Bob Moog.
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