The #AfghanWhigs kicked off their reunion tour last night in NYC, performing together for the first time in 13 years. You can find our review of the show on rollingstone.com. (Taken with instagram)
RIP #DonnaSummer. The legendary disco queen appeared on the cover of #RollingStone on March 23, 1978. Head to Rollingstone.com to read the cover story. (Taken with instagram)
Happy 52nd birthday #Bono! Here is the #U2 frontman on the October 1, 1992 cover of #RollingStone. (Taken with instagram)
.@TheBeachBoys visited our office today and taped an RS Live performance filled with endless harmonies: (Taken with instagram)
RIP Adam “MCA” Yauch. This is the August 6, 1998 cover story where we explore how three punk-rock wiseguys from New York made some records, changed America and built an empire of cool.
Here is an excerpt where they shared how they register at their hotels, as they were about to embark on their first tour in three years.
And Adam “MCA” YAUCH – the spiritual seeker – what of him? He registers under the name I. Clouseau, as in Inspector Clouseau, for he is a huge Peter Sellers fan. His favorite Sellers movie is The Party. “He plays an Indian actor,” Yauch says, “and the movie was banned in India because he is playing this bumbling idiot in the middle of all these white people, and some Indian people were insulted by it. But the irony is that he’s really the only intelligent person there – all the other people are morons. So it has a cool theme.”
Happy #StarWarsDay - May the Fourth be with you! Check out our August 4, 1983 cover: (Taken with instagram)
Happy 79th birthday #WillieNelson! Here he is on the July 13, 1978 cover of #RollingStone. (Taken with instagram)
#TheTingTings brought their high energy and bright lights to Webster Hall last night!! (Taken with instagram)
Happy Birthday #EricClapton! Here he is on the May 11, 1968 issue of #Rollingstone – his first RS cover! (Taken with instagram)
David Bowie once thought Satan was living in his indoor swimming pool. He also cohabited with Iggy Pop in West Berlin in 1976, during which time he became consumed with Third Reich history and Nazi mythology. Bowie, like many rock stars before and many more to come, struggled with drugs and faced somewhat of an identity crisis in attempts to reinvent his sound and eclipse the popularity of his alter-ego Ziggy Stardust.
But there was a light at the end of his tunnel, and Bowie created “a new language of music from fragments, accidents and dreamed-up textures,” that sparked a comeback and influenced a future generation of musicians.
For an excerpt of our latest cover story, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust”, check out RollingStone.com.
— Parry Ernsberger
