Lenny Kravitz: I Want to Work With Jack White

Lenny Kravitz doesn't spend much time listening to current music — he prefers old favorites and new obsessions such as Nina Simone. But there's at least one exception: "Jack White is very good," Kravitz says. "I mean, I love the White Stripes records. Love them. I think he's very interesting; he's someone I'd actually like to play with. One thing I haven't done that I want to do is, for instance, go be the drummer in a band. I'd like to work with some other great musicians and I'll either play bass or play drums or whatever, and collaborate with some people like that."

For more from Kravitz, see our story in the next issue of Rolling Stone, on stands next week, plus come back to Rock Daily to watch video from our photo shoot.

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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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