Kid Rock's Wild Cover Shoot Video: Watch Him Navigate Strippers and Questions about Tommy Lee, His New LP

The secret is out: Kid Rock (and a few scantily clad female companions) is the star of Rolling Stone's 2007 Hot Issue. To read an excerpt from the cover story, where the rocker born Robert Ritchie explains how booze, strippers and punching Tommy Lee helped him get over Pamela Anderson, click here. Watch Kid Rock recall his crotch-burning first Rolling Stone cover and talk about the Video Music Awards incident and his new album, Rock N Roll Jesus in our behind-the-scenes cover-shoot video. (More photos from the shoot can be found here.)

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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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