In the Studio With Courtney Love: Exclusive Photos

Last week, Rolling Stone brought you highlights from our Courtney Love story in the November 26, 2009 issue (on stands now). We caught up with the Hole leader in the studio, where she revealed her long-in-the-works Nobody's Daughter explores themes of greed, vengeance and feminism.

"There's a lot of maternal instinct on there, and probably my favorite lyric is: 'Nobody's daughter, she's never was, she never will be beholden to anyone. She cannot kill. You don't understand how evil we really are,' " Love tells RS. "I don't even know what that really means, but I know it's something to do with my daughter and it's also to do with me."

Here's an extra Love bonus: exclusive photos of Courtney in New York's famed Electric Lady Studios, hard at work on the follow-up to 2004's America's Sweetheart:
• In the Studio With Courtney Love: Exclusive Photos

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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