Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
From Joe Elliott
In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.
When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.
It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
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