"When John and Paul married they married hard. It was as if their ambivalent relationship to the sexuality of rock and roll finally caught up with them. Men in groups gave way to couples"
“In the ’80s the only list that computes is pure megaplatinum — Prince and Bruce and U2 and Michael J. and Madonna, with maybe a few million-selling status symbols like Sting, Talking Heads, R.E.M., or Public Enemy tacked on for appearance’s sake.”
“If anyone had told me in 1969 that George Clinton and Al Green would be two of my three favorite rock and rollers of the ’70s my only response would have been ‘Who?’ Which is why I’m not going to try and foretell the future now.”
