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Love and War Inside the Rolling Stones | ARTICLE
Perhaps these men, the Rolling Stones, should not be here, at this time in their lives, doing this – doing it so well...
May 7, 2013 10:00 AM ET -
Bob Dylan Unleashed: A Wild Ride on His New LP and Striking Back at Critics | ARTICLE
I'm trying to explain something that can't be explained," says Bob Dylan. "Help me out." It's a midsummer day, an hour or so...
September 27, 2012 12:00 PM ET -
Bob Dylan on His Dark New Album, 'Tempest' | ARTICLE
Bob Dylan describes Tempest, his 35th studio album (out September 11th), as a record where "anything goes and you just...
August 1, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
Donna Summer: Is There Life After Disco? | ARTICLE
Until I saw Donna Summer a year ago on a Midnight Special with Lou Rawls, I'd viewed her music simply as brilliantly packaged aural...
May 17, 2012 12:35 PM ET -
Levon Helm 1940-2012 | ARTICLE
He was the sole American-born voice in a fellowship that set out to discover – to imagine redeeming – what was left of America's...
May 10, 2012 4:30 PM ET -
Cover Story Excerpt: David Bowie | ARTICLE
The following is an excerpt of the David Bowie cover story in the February 2nd, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone, on stands January 19th. "Ziggy Stardust" beleaguered Bowie for a long time. It became what he thought...
January 18, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
The Cars Take On Critics | ARTICLE
"That's true, we did have a certain view of the world: sort of cold but hysterical," says Ric Ocasek, the Cars' lanky, lean-fleshed lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter. "Actually, as I look back on it,...
May 31, 2011 6:50 PM ET -
The Clash's Anger On the Left: Rolling Stone's 1979 Feature | ARTICLE
London — Never mind that shit," says Joe Strummer, the thuggish-looking lead singer of the Clash, addressing some exultant kids yelling "Happy New Year" at him from the teeming floor of the Lyceum. "You've got...
February 18, 2011 1:00 PM ET -
Why The Beatles Broke Up | ARTICLE
It was a cold January in 1969, and the Beatles were seated on a vast, even colder, soundstage at London's Twickenham Film Studios, in the company of the last people in the world they wanted...
September 3, 2009 12:00 AM ET -
Unraveling the Mysteries of "Lost" | ARTICLE
No other show on television delivers mystery in quite the same way as Lost, the ABC serial drama about people trying to escape an island that their fates seem bound to. For five seasons now (with...
April 9, 2009 11:30 AM ET -
Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 | ALBUM REVIEW
Bob Dylan is well-known for his abandoned treasures — all those unreleased recordings from the past 40-plus years that have made his ongoing Bootleg Series such a mind-blowing trove. Dylan likely had little trouble leaving those moments...
October 16, 2008 12:00 AM ET -
The Life and Times of Bob Marley | ARTICLE
Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 969 from March 10, 2005. This issue and the rest of the Rolling Stone archives are available via Rolling Stone Plus, Rolling Stone's premium...
March 10, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
People of the Year: Bob Dylan | ARTICLE
This year marked some critical moments in Bob Dylan's singular life. In February, he won an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Things...
December 6, 2001 10:25 AM ET -
Bob Dylan, at 60, Unearths New Revelations | ARTICLE
That night in Switzerland," says Bob Dylan, "it all just came to me. All of a sudden I could sing anything. There might've...
November 22, 2001 1:40 PM ET -
Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell: Bash of the Titans | ARTICLE
On the closing night of his tour with Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan stood onstage at Anaheim's Arrowhead Pond...
July 9, 1998 12:00 PM ET -
An Appreciation of Frank Sinatra: 1915-1998 | ARTICLE
When the news came, in the late evening of May 14th, that Frank Sinatra had died at age eighty-two of a massive...
June 25, 1998 11:35 AM ET -
David Lynch and Trent Reznor: The Lost Boys | ARTICLE
This might be the story of a fallen idol – a once-brilliant film director whose talents went astray and who lost his standing and...
March 6, 1997 12:00 PM ET -
Trent Reznor: Death to Hootie | ARTICLE
Some of the most wondrous moments in David Lynch's Lost Highway owe significantly to the aural genius of Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor....
March 6, 1997 12:00 PM ET -
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | ALBUM REVIEW
On her 1987 debut, The Lion and the Cobra, the twenty-year-old Irish-born Sinéad O'Connor came off as one of the most prodigious — not to mention eye-catching — new artists to hit pop music in years. Part...
January 22, 1997 12:00 AM ET -
The Ghost Of Tom Joad | ALBUM REVIEW
Bruce Springsteen's best music has always been about the refusal to accept life's meanest fates or most painful limitations. Springsteen charges his audience to remain brave, despite all the disillusion, defeat, injustice and fear that invariably dog...
December 28, 1995 12:00 AM ET
