Exclusive: Lenny Kravitz Tells RS "No Truth to the Story" About Joining Velvet Revolver

Contrary to internet reports today, Lenny Kravitz is not set to become the new singer of Velvet Revolver. The singer told RollingStone.com, "I know and love the Velvet Revolver guys but there is no truth to the story about me joining their band." Rumors out of the U.K. claimed that Kravitz was "spotted" in the studio with the now-singer-less Velvet Revolver and suggested that Kravitz has just enough star power to fill the role vacated by Scott Weiland (who pretty much filled the role vacated by Axl Rose). However, Kravitz has been busy touring Europe and hasn't had any contact with the VR camp. Kravitz is just the latest vocalist to be essentially handed VR's microphone by the rumor mill, following artists like Sebastian Bach, Spacehog's Royston Langdon and that guy who won Rock Star: Supernova.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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