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4/4 @Adele untamed in my latest newsletter. Please do read here, and if you enjoy, subscribe & share: https://t.co/vxFJAFunJt

3/4 On herself: "A clueless girl who's going places."

2/4 On Rick Rubin: "The first time I met him... I had a tampon on my thumb."

1/4 RT: Adele on Jay Z: "What did he smell like? Delicious. He smells like money!" #adele #jayz

#oscars #sinners If one was given for scene of the year, it'd be a slam-dunk. https://t.co/wYLOTN2dQv

2/2 How to - and not to - interview a music icon. Check out my latest newsletter. And if you enjoy, please do subscribe & share. https://t.co/hkVCLC7OLz #madonna #iggypop #materialgirl #godfatherofpunk

1/2 RT: Madonna called me an "asshole." Iggy Pop told me: "You're a music journalist. And music journalists are very poorly paid people. Reason being, they don't do their research properly."

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RT: How to survive a close encounter with pop royalty. Check out, and please do subscribe to & share, my latest newsletter: https://t.co/hkVCLC7OLz #madonna #queenofpop #materialgirl

5/5 Read the full, unabridged interview here:

4/5 Rick Rubin access all areas in my latest Substack. Please read, & if you like subscribe & share here: https://t.co/miN9BjUW36

3/5 "The best part of (Def Jam's success) was never having to wake up in the morning. The worst was... watching it ruin our relationships." #johnnycash #beastieboys #themaninblack #thecreativeact

2/5 "I thought Mike D was an arrogant asshole. I grew to see that they had a great sense of humour." https://t.co/Ps8ovM5Rqv

1/5 RT: "Johnny Cash said to me, 'You have to keep me working because I will die if I don't have something to do." https://t.co/Ax5zTWrkwU

5/5 To go along with it, I've also put together 'Rick's Place', a 21-song 'best of' Rubin and accessible here:

4/5 The inside story of that day is the subject of my latest newsletter. Read, and please do share it here:

3/5 And the seminal records he made with Johhny Cash: "He said to me, 'You have to keep me working because I will die if I don't have something to do... He was a wise, wise man."

2/5 In the summer of 2009, I got to 'hang' with Rubin at his home in Malibu. Over many hours he talked about his early huge success with the Beastie Boys: "Everything was done with trial and error. As long as it sounded good, it didn't matter how technically wrong it was."

1/5 RT - Rick Rubin: "I remember having tremendous issues with boundaries. I didn't know there were any." #rickrubin #beastieboys #johnnycash