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

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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