Devendra Banhart Describes His Bizarro Rock Memorabilia (Jagger, Sinatra, Hagar?): Exclusive Audio

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, free-spirit folkie Devendra Banhart details his run-ins with Lindsay Lohan and first experiences with breasts (they were on a hermaphrodite). Click below to listen in to select parts of his interview with Christian Hoard, where he chats about his bizarre collection of rock memorabilia and collaborations with a Stroke.

Used goods from Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Whoopi Goldberg, Sammy Hagar -- Banhart is stockpiling them all:

Banhart became pals with actor Gael Garcia Bernal after discovering they had something unusual in common:

On what happened to his recording of the Strokes' Nick Valensi crooning the line "I've bribed the whore of babylon to lend me her waterbed":

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Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

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