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19 Brown’s New Nashville Rules How the singer is making music that just might change country. BY JOE LEVY

INFOGRAPHIC 28 What Was Summer’s Biggest Song? Pop hits ruled the radio, but streaming services favored newer sounds. BY AMY X. WANG

30 Q&A The singer on embracing loneliness and why she worships . BY KORY GROW

PROFILE 32 Life After on getting fired from his band, and his solo plans. BY National Af17airs 41 The Health Department’s Christian Crusade How the Christian right took over the ofice of Health and Human Services, and why reproductive rights are the first target. BY TESSA STUART

MATT TAIBBI 45 Trump in 2020 Why the president’s chances are better than you think.

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ON THE COVER Zoë Kravitz Follows RS Politics: Mom’s Lead

The daughter of Lisa homage to her mom’s Bonet and Lenny iconic photos. “Techni- Kravitz joins ‘Rolling cally,” says Zoë, “this is 2020 Starts Now my second cover.” Stone’ family , ROLLING STONE’S irst serious venture into national politics a friend of Bonet who was a bold one: sending Hunter S. Thompson to cover the IN MAY 1988, ZOË has shot more than 100 Kravitz’s mom, the RS covers, provided rancorous 1972 presidential race between a deeply lawed actress , ap- the original images. Republican incumbent with sinking approval ratings, Rich- peared on the cover of “She had a wildness ard Nixon, and a left-wing Democrat, George McGovern, ROLLING STONE’s annual to her that was very attractive,” he recalls. whom the magazine energetically endorsed but who never Hot Issue. At the time, the former star of The He loves that 30 years had much of a chance. later, Zoë’s cover “is In one of his scathing dispatches, Thompson wrote, “The very much full circle.” Lisa Bonet, whole framework of the presidency is getting . Interestingly, the 1988 nude Bonet photo It’s come to the point where you can’t run unless you appeared inside the can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big 1988 issue, not on the sticks. You almost have to be star to get the kind of you need to survive cover — the magazine instead chose an image in American politics.” of Bonet draped in a Thompson’s take on Nixon was perhaps hyperbolic but also prescient, essential- white shirt, a total sur- ly predicting Donald Trump’s game plan 44 years later. As senior writer Matt Taib- prise to her. “I think she bi points out, there are other parallels emerging between 1972 and today. “You have was bummed,” Kravitz says. “For me, it’s about a profoundly unpopular Republican president and a fractured Democratic Party,” doing the thing that my he says. “There’s a real possibility of a kind of insurgent Democratic movement tak- mom had intended to ing over.” do. That feels cool.” Still, as Taibbi writes in this issue (“Trump’s Chances in 2020 Are Better Than In the accompanying You Think”), it would be a mistake to underestimate Trump, who ires up his Re- publican base in much the same way Nixon did. “In a time of extreme cynicism and “Young . Aretha existential gloom,” Taibbi writes, “Trump is a doomsday cult, giving voters permis- Franklin. When sion to unleash their inner monster.” Zoë Kravitz, somebody allows With the midterms now in the rearview and the 2020 campaign ramping up, 2018 themselves to ROLLING STONE’s politics team is covering national issues and events more inten- be who they are sively than we ever have before — making sense of the anxious tick-tock of daily , that’s really hot,” news and digging into deeper pieces of reporting and analysis on issues that go says Kravitz. under-reported in the mainstream media. In this issue, Phoebe Neidl and Andrea Marks survey the toll so far of Trump’s disastrous environmental policies (“Trump’s interview, Bonet was Toxic Agenda”), and Tessa Stuart reports on how the Department of Health and asked to define what Human Services has been taken over by a small group of right-wing Christians, hot means to her. So whose policies endanger women’s — and particularly immigrants’ — reproductive we asked Kravitz to do rights (“The Health Department’s Christian Crusade”). the same. “To me, ‘hot’ means someone For the irst time since William Greider the national-afairs desk in the Nine- who’s vibrant and ties, we have a full-time Washington, D.C., bureau chief, Andy Kroll, directing our confident,” she says. reporting in the capital. And politics editor John Hendrickson has made our web- “Young Mick Jagger. site’s political coverage essential daily reading. (Sign up for our daily politics news- . When somebody allows them- letter at RollingStone.com/politics to keep up.) Cosby Show was two selves to be who they “What’s happening with the Trump administration is unprecedented and scary,” months pregnant are unapologetically, says Kroll. “But in other ways, it’s invigorating. The work we’re doing, the work with Zoë. (Her dad, that’s really hot.” Lenny, graced the We read Kravitz her ROLLING STONE has always done, has never been more important.” cover in November mom’s answer: “To me, 1995.) So it seemed hot means uncom- natural for us to put promising. It means Zoë, now 29 and nonconforming, not starring in Big Little afraid.” Lies, on this year’s Hot “Wow, we’re the Issue cover, with an same!” says Kravitz. JASON FINE image shot by talented “She instilled that photographer Zoey in me, I guess.” She EDITOR Grossman that pays smiles. “That’s so cool.” FROM TOP: MATTHEW ROLSTON; ZOEY GROSSMAN

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Correspondence + LOVE LETTERS & ADVICE

“Legendary, inspirational and one of a After the Hurricane Jef Goodell presents an onslaught of kind. These facts confirming that, one year later, the U.S. government still doesn’t give a shit are the three about Puerto Rico [“The Perfect Storm,” RS 1320]. Every American should read things that this article and then immediately call their congressperson and demand Puerto come to mind Rican representation and a comprehen- sive relief package. This is a tragedy that when I think is so easy for Americans to forget. of Aretha —Sara Derr, Franklin.” —Jef Swanson, Everett, WA

Honoring the Queen

When Aretha Franklin passed away in August, on Aretha Franklin.” Another reader, Benjamin @bedgood_ after battling pancreatic cancer, contributing M., called it “a beautiful reflection on Aretha’s terri: seems editor Mikal Gilmore wrote a definitive life.” Readers like Shirley Estes wrote in about like all Franklin that spanned her life, from her traumatic Franklin’s career and her lasting legacy, “May we transcendent formative years to her reign as the greatest singer always give Aretha honor for the creative master- artists, like of all time [“The Queen,” RS 1320]. Veteran critic piece of her career but also for a life well lived.” Aretha, are and biographer tweet- Others, like Sprouse, went so far as to complex. ed in praise of Gilmore’s work, saying, “Mikal frame the cover (shot in January 1961 by Hank Ultimately, The West Coast’s Gilmore’s series of appreciations in ROLLING STONE Parker) “because the Aretha Franklin tribute looks we are left House Fight about the importance of various legendary artists so much better on my wall than on the cofee with their art represents some of the finest writing ever about table.” But Robert Cavalier, like so many others, and that’s all As much as the prospect of flipping . . . . Latest example: his cover story wrote in just to say “Thank you, Lady !” that counts. Congress in favor of the Democratic Party excites me, it also makes me nervous [“The Battle for ,” RS 1320]. I don’t want liberals to have a false sense of security, because that’s what happened in 2016. I think that the Democrats’ SPOTLIGHT weakness has always been mobilization, especially during midterms. So there’s North Carolina’s Hog-Manure Apocalypse still a lot of work to be done, because as candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar pointed out in Tim Dickinson’s piece, Republicans After Hurricane Florence, the worst rainstorm in East Coast are going through something too and history, many North Carolina hog farms were underwater. you better believe that they will be voting Nearly 10 million hogs are being raised in the state, and the accordingly. top- hog-producing counties alone create 15.5 million tons of manure annually. And now, at least five open-air hog- —Serena Elkaim, Los Angeles waste lagoons have sustained structural damage, 17 were flooded by nearby rivers, and 21 overflowed, potentially ex- posing locals to contaminants like salmonella and E. coli. A few months prior, reporter Doug Bock Clark warned ROLLING STONE readers of this impending catastrophe when he inves- tigated how had outsourced pork production to North CONTACT US Carolina [“A Crap Deal for Duplin County,” RS 1309/1310]. “Poor people are literally getting shit on,” as the Letters to ROLLING STONE, 1290 Avenue of North Carolina Environmental Justice Network said back in March. Now, weeks after the storm, the night- the Americas, New York, NY 10104-0298. mare scenario of massive floods of pig waste has come true. It’s high past time to regulate factory farms. Letters become the property of ROLLING STONE and may be edited for publication. E-mail: [email protected] Subscriber Services: Call 800-283-1549.

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16 | Rolling Stone | March 2018 The Crazy Train’s Last Stop

OZZY OSBOURNE’S pre-show name, No More Tours II, ref- America and go , or routine is a little quieter erences his No More Tours do Europe and go home. In than it used to be: First he farewell run in the early essence, what I’m trying to does vocal warm-ups, then Nineties. Back then, Ozzy do is slow my lifestyle down he prays. “I say a few words had been diagnosed with “a to a more comfortable way to my higher power, which, of” multiple scle- of living.” But he shows if you want to call him God, rosis. “Sharon said, ‘A little no signs of slowing down I don’t care,” he says in his bit of MS? That’s like saying when he hits the stage a dressing room at PPL Center I’m a little bit pregnant,’ ” he few minutes later, howling in Allentown, Pennsylvania, recalls. It turned out he had “Crazy Train” and Black on opening night of his been misdiagnosed — he Sabbath’s biggest hits, and North American tour. “If had a treatable form dousing the audience with something goes wrong, it of Parkinson’s (“I’m OK now,” multiple buckets of water. was his decision, not mine.” he says). Three years later, For him the reason he’s still The stakes are greater this Ozzy was back out on his performing is not compli- time, since the former Black Retirement Sucks tour. cated: “I literally can’t do Sabbath singer and reality- Ozzy stresses that he isn’t anything else,” he says with TV star declared that this “stopping completely. . . . If a laugh. “I’m no good at world tour will be his last. Its I go on the road, I’ll just do anything else.” KORY GROW

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Kane Brown’s New Nashville Rules The singer never thought he’d it into country. Now he’s making music that might change it

PHOTOGRAPH BY Alysse Gafkjen | 19 The Mix

FROM THE VAULT INSIDE DYLAN’S CONFESSIONAL CLASSIC

Blood on the Tracks has always been one of ’s most mysterious . He recorded the classic LP in New York, but then, for reasons he’s never explained, scrapped half of it and went back home to Minne- sota to keep working, even though advance copies had been shipped out (everyone from Mick Jagger to Dylan’s brother David have been credited with convincing Dylan the original recordings weren’t up to par). A new , More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14, ofers a window into those original New York sessions, showing exactly how his most confessional songs came together during just six days in 1974. These never-heard recordings reveal that he originally laid down the songs acoustically by himself. On the box set, raw, aching- ly tender renditions of “You’re a Big Girl Now” and “Simple Twist of Fate,” rival their finished counterparts. Pro- ducer Phil Ramone would eventually speed the songs up and add echo for the final album. More Blood, More Tracks strips all those modifi- cations away, allowing the songs to finally be heard as they were when Dylan (right, in 1974) first put them down on tape. “There are some records that you love so much, that you listen to so many times, that you think you never want to hear them again,” says a source close to the Dylan camp. “But hearing it this way gives you a chance to listen to again for .” Dylan still has plenty in the vaults for upcoming Bootleg Series editions. releases may spotlight his cofeehouse days and 1997’s Time Out of Mind. Says the source, “We’ll only stop doing them once we stop finding things that excite us.” ANDY GREENE

KANE BROWN Early in Brown’s career, because he is a person of ing up big numbers. Going from social media sensa- color with a neck tat and an eyebrow piercing, peo- tion to major-label artist has been commonplace in N THE REGIMENTED world of — ple often assumed he was a rapper. But his outsider pop for more than a decade, but skipping the Nash- where would-be stars pass through a Music Row feeling isn’t just a matter of race. Brown mastered ville boot camp got Brown tagged as a country Justin I boot camp of nights spent working out their ma- social media before guitar, shooting country covers Bieber. “Nobody’s really done it in country music like terial at open mics and days spent peddling songs to on his phone, posting them on and rack- that before,” he says, shrugging of the negativity. publishers — Kane Brown, 25, thinks of himself as an As he explained in “Learning” — a song from his outcast. He’s biracial, and he came up hard in Ten- FACTS 2016 self-titled debut album that addressed every- nessee and northern Georgia, living with his single thing from a brutal beating at age six from a stepdad mom in a car at one point and moving so often he Brown almost went to the University of for wetting the bed to the racism he’d experienced Tennessee on a basketball scholarship but didn’t have the attended ive diferent high schools. “I got bullied marks to make the team. “I had to get my grade average at school to losing friends to guns and overdoses — so much growing up for being a diferent color in a up, ‘cause I hated school. I’m so ADD.” bitterness is something he’s worked hard to let go of. majority-white school,” he says. “I remember being Brown has a distinctive low register that’s more If not for his tattoos, he says, he would have chased through the woods being called the n-word. I enlisted in the Army. “They told me I’d have to have my like a twanged-out than . was in middle school. The irst thing that came to my tattoos removed before I could go in. I was like, ‘Uh, no.’ ” He grew up with country, but gravitated toward R&B

mind was, ‘They’re gonna kill me.’ ” in his teens. As he inished high school he found him- FEINSTEINBARRY

20 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 BREAKING THROUGH The Guitar Heroes Winning the War on Bro Country John (left) are scoring hits — and TJ and speaking their Osborne minds on gun violence and racism

WO YEARS AGO, when Brothers Osborne beat T out to win Vocal Duo of the Year at the Country Music Awards, many Nashville scene- watchers saw it as a hugely piv- otal moment. FGL had deined the slick “bro country” sound that had ruled radio for years. Brothers Osborne hearkened back to a tougher, rootsier side of country. Underdog realness took home the hardware. “All genres of music get to be ballad “I Don’t Remember it-safe Nashville, the Osbornes repetitious after a while,” says Me (Before You).” “We can’t are to speak their the bearded John Osborne, be anything other than our- minds on issues like racial 36, sitting next to his younger selves,” says TJ, 33. injustice and gun violence, brother in an East Nashville That isn’t just bluster. The and the video for “Shoot Me cocktail bar. “And sometimes a Osbornes, who grew up in Straight” lampoons Trump’s bomb needs to be detonated.” Deale, Maryland, are proud Space Force initiative. “People On November 14th, the -collar guys — their mom act like we don’t already know Brothers are up for their third was a hairdresser, their dad that it stands to hurt us,” says consecutive Best Vocal Duo a self-employed plumber. John. “But we’re still choosing CMA. Along with artists like Despite scoring a Number to say something.” Ashley McBryde and Chris Sta- Four hit with the song “Stay Recently, the duo headlined pleton, they’re part of an old- a Little Longer,” they haven’t a fundraiser for Tennessee’s school, guitar-driven move- fallen into rock-star spending Democratic gubernatorial ment that’s reshaping country. ; when John decided candidate, Karl Dean. But they ’s 2018 LP, Port Saint to splurge on a “new” car, he also note that their partisan Joe, balances ragers like the bought a Kia at Carmax. leanings aren’t set in stone. six-minute “Shoot Me Straight” The working-class sensibil- “It’s not about picking sides to with singer--style ity extends to their politics as us,” says TJ. “It’s about right moments such as the delicate well. Unlike many stars in play- and wrong.” JOSEPH HUDAK

self connecting to an emerging wave of pop- friendly blends more traditional sounds into his mix. In part, He also made sure the album had “both songs you country — Florida Georgia Line, , Thomas that’s the result of a trip to Texas that saw Brown could play on country radio and then Rhett — that blended elements of hip-hop, dance trading songs with local artists. “I was playing ‘What that were gonna stream well.” Among the latter is pop, R&B and rock. When he was in 11th grade, a Ifs’ and two iddle players jumped in on it and just “American Bad Dream,” which opens with a verse co-worker at Lowe’s overheard Brown singing Chris made me fall in love,” he says. He starting putting about school shootings. Brown was at the Route 91 Young’s “Gettin’ You Home” and pushed him to per- iddle and — instruments he feels “are festival in Las Vegas last year, but left minutes before form it at a school talent show. He won. Now Brown going extinct” — on his tracks. “It’s new-school with the start of the shooting that would take 58 lives. opens for Young on tour, and his debut album in- old-school country,” he says. “It’s an experiment.” When he started out, Brown knew he was strug- cluded a Young duet. That album also spawned two So much so that the album is titled Experiment. gling for acceptance in Nashville. Now he’s in a hits: “What Ifs” and “Heaven,” both of which edge Brown came up with a carefully crafted balance of position to take more artistic chances, and he feels into power-ballad territory. His feature on a remix “stuf that guys like to listen to, with solos that they like he’s brought nontraditional listeners, like him- of ’s “Never Be the Same” helped wish they could play” (such as the swampy guitar self, further . “If you come to my push that song into the Top 10 and opened up new thumper “Baby Come Back to Me”) and songs that shows, there’s all kinds of diferent races, all kinds of audiences for both artists. would appeal to the ladies. (“I guess because I’m get- diferent people. Now, I feel accepted. I like Brown might be well poised for mainstream star- ting married right now, we have so many love songs an outcast on the inside, but it doesn’t bother me

ALYSSE GAFKJEN ALYSSE dom, but he’s responding with a second album that on there,” says Brown, who’s planning a fall wedding.) anymore, at all. It kind of feels cool.” JOE LEVY

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IT USED TO BE EASY to crown a song of the summer each year, back when major cent of adults tune in at least once a week, according to Nielsen. “The mass labels and radio programmers called the shots. But what was the biggest sum- audience isn’t always in sync with streaming trends, which are driven by a mer song of 2018? Thanks to the dizzying bufet of ways that fans ind music smaller segment of active consumers,” says iHeartMedia chief programming of- today, it’s harder to name a winner. From May through August, radio stations icer Tom Poleman. That’s why there’s little overlap on the charts below, which in the U.S. blasted crowd-pleasers like ’s “Psycho” and Taylor rank the top songs played this summer on iHeartRadio, YouTube and Swift’s “Delicate”; over on streaming services, fresher tracks from (the biggest radio, video-sharing and music-streaming companies in the U.S., and reigned supreme. Much of that diference comes down to the fact respectively). Drake’s “In My Feelings” was a huge phenomenon, for instance, that on-demand streaming has a young audience that bumps promising hits to with 171,933,952 U.S. Spotify streams. But if listening to the radio in your car is the top very quickly. The AM-FM radio market is bigger and broader — 93 per- the main way you consume music, you might never have heard it. AMY X. WANG

Rank IHEARTRADIO YOUTUBE SPOTIFY 9946,099,600 SPINS 218,70708,8,610 VIEWSWS 171,93333,9,952 STREAREAMAMS 1 Psycho Lucid Dreams In My Feelings Post Malone feat. Ty Dolla $ign Juice Wrld Drake 9914,027,600 208,5000,20,207 159,84747,5,513 2 The Middle I Like It Lucid Dreams Zedd//Grey //J Balvin Juice Wrld 8815,252,600 201,1997,17,178 125,900,0,24,241 3 God’s Plan Boo’d Up Sad! Drake Ella Mai XXXtentacion 7770,348,000 171,49898,8,819 108,762,4,436436

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T’S TWO days before she What’s wrong with you?” dives back into an eight- So I did sit down and talk I month world tour, and it through with my mom. It Florence Welch is buzzing opened up a lot of stuf that with excitement. This morn- was good in . But it’s ing, she went to a museum funny, with English people, exhibit in Vancouver about you have the talk and then the history of the cabin in everyone carries on. North America. “I grew up Have you conquered that with a Little House on the Prai- disorder? rie fetish,” the English singer, I have a healthy relationship 32, explains with a laugh. with my body now, but it “I was obsessed. I lived in took me a long time. And South London, so there it stays with you in weird were no prairies.” Welch is ways. If you’ve been denying much more lighthearted in yourself nourishment in conversation than she is in some way, you also have a song. On the latest Florence tendency to deny yourself and the Machine album, emotional nourishment. I’m , she sings about still trying to igure out what ighting depression, doing the fuck that means for me. Ecstasy and living through You’ve been sober for an eating disorder. “I’m quite four years. What made you an anxious person,” she says. stop drinking? “I’m afraid of lots of things. Being an extreme drink- But when it comes to actually er was a huge part of my being really scared, I have a identity. When I stopped, strange bravery.” there was this sense that I was letting some ghost of You recently got a tattoo rock history down, but I just that says “Always Lonely.” couldn’t cope anymore. It How come? Is that how you was monumental. It wasn’t feel? like, “I want to be healthy, I was supersad [when I got and I need a change of pace.” it]. Mixing High as Hope was It was like, “I’m going to die. a really lonely time in my I need to stop.” I could have life. I was in New York, and maybe carried on physically, I had just gone through a but psychologically, drinking breakup — one of those sad and drugs made me really ones where it’s not very depressed. dramatic. I was thinking, What’s your biggest “Are you perpetuating your indulgence these days? own loneliness?” The closest Vintage clothes and books. relationship I’ve had for my Q&A And I drink so much cofee. whole life is with my music. Do you do the thing where Also, I guess, I thought it was you go to people’s houses funny. and secretly, silently judge What’s your biggest fear? Florence Welch them on their book choices? I I’m afraid of lying. There have such a fear of somebody have been so many kind The English pop singer on getting sober, embracing doing that to me, so I keep stewardesses who have held loneliness, and why she worships Patti Smith mine really well-curated. my hand during turbulence, You have a song on your and I had to write them By KORY GROW new album called “Patri- letters just to say thank cia,” dedicated to Patti you. And I can be a bit really sweet and wearing a front of a zillion people, and It’s surrendering to your own Smith. What does she mean agoraphobic when I Florence shirt and a fringy suddenly it was the Adam aloneness for a bit and seeing to you? from tour. When you allow jacket. They want to talk and thing: “Oh, my God, what comes with that. I was thinking about how to yourself to be that vulnerable about art history or whatev- I’m not supposed to do that!” On the new song “Hun- live creatively without chaos. in front of so many people, er. I try to explain, “I appre- So I threw myself of the ger,” you sing about your Her writing was like a just walking out on the street ciate the passion, but I need stage in a way that hurt me experience with an eating blueprint. She seems to bring becomes this extreme thing a safe space to sit and write because I was back in the disorder: “At 17, I started to such reverence to the act of you can’t handle. I can get and think.” physical world. starve myself.” Was that a living that I ind so inspiring. a bit edgy about going out, You’ve said that you go How about when you’re hard song to write? I bumped into her at a restau- which makes me a superfun into a trance when you’re writing songs? How do you It was something I couldn’t rant in New York — I knew person to date [laughs]. onstage. How do you break get in that mental space? talk about for a long time. that she loves that restaurant, What’s the worst experi- that state? A lot of it happens on the I thought I would take it to so that’s why I go there. She ence you’ve had with an I hurt myself at Coachella move, because I travel so the grave. My sister was like, has this luminous beauty, like obsessed ? [in 2015] because I suddenly much. It’s a strange kind of “You haven’t even spoken an angel. I felt so shy, like the I’ve had kids come to my became self-conscious. I had delicious longing feeling. It’s about this with Mom, and kid who came to my house

house, but they’re always just taken my shirt of in sad, but it’s not unpleasant. you’ve put it in a pop song? one time. It was magical. VINCENT HAYCOCK

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PROFILE Life After Fleetwood Mac Lindsey Buck- in 1967 with original — told ROLLING ingham on getting STONE that the band hit an ired from his “impasse” with Bucking- ham. “This was not a happy band — and situation for us in terms of his solo plans the logistics of a functioning band.” The drummer did not By DAVID FRICKE elaborate but said, “We made a decision that we could not INDSEY BUCKINGHAM go on with him.” and his wife, Kris- Nicks — Buckingham’s L ten, were at home romantic and musical in Los Angeles on January partner when the two joined 28th, watching the Grammy the Mac in 1975 — cited a dis- Awards ceremony on televi- agreement over tour plans, sion, when the phone rang. saying Buckingham wanted Fleetwood Mac’s manager too much time of for solo Irving Azof was calling with work. But, she added, “Our a message for Buckingham relationship has always been from . The gist of volatile. We were never mar- it, Buckingham says, quoting ried, but we might as well Azof: “Stevie never wants to have been. Some couples get be on a stage with you again.” divorced after 40 years. They Two nights earlier, the break their kids’ hearts and most popular and enduring destroy everyone around lineup of Fleetwood Mac — them because it’s just hard.” Nicks, Buckingham, sing- Buckingham conirms that, er-keyboard player Christine at a band meeting in late McVie, bassist John McVie 2017 — shortly after a series and drummer Mick Fleet- of shows with Christine to wood — performed in New promote their project, Lind- York at a MusiCares beneit sey Buckingham/Christine show honoring the group. McVie — he asked for “three “We rehearsed for two days, or four months extra” to do and everything was great,” solo dates. There was “stone- Buckingham claims. “We walling,” he claims. “I left the were getting along great.” meeting because therePorporm, was But on the phone, Azof nothing else to talkquist about.” lant and caption had a list of things that, as Buckingham But he insists that Fleet- in L.A., heretk Buckingham puts it, “Stevie wood Mac always “came irst. September took issue with” that eve- And I don’t think there was ning, including the guitarist’s ever anything that was just outburst just before the look over and Christine and Asked if those were “I don’t think cause to be ired. We have band’s set over the intro Mick are doing the waltz Azof’s exact words, Buck- all done things that were not music — the studio recording behind her as a joke.” ingham responds, “Pretty there was just constructive. All of us have of Nicks’ “Rhiannon” — and At the end of that call, much. I don’t remember cause to be ired. worn on each other’s psyches the way he “smirked” during Buckingham assumed Nicks his exact words, but that All of us have at times. That’s the history of Nicks’ thank-you speech. was quitting Fleetwood was the message.” In April, the group.” Buckingham concedes the Mac. He wrote an e-mail Fleetwood Mac announced worn on each It is a warm late-summer irst point. “It wasn’t about it to Fleetwood assuring the a major North American other’s psyches morning, and Buckingham, being ‘Rhiannon,’ ” he says. drummer that the group tour with two new guitar- at times. That’s who turned 69 on October “It just undermined the im- could continue. There was no ists: , formerly of 3rd, is sitting on the patio pact of our entrance. That’s reply. A couple of days later, Crowded House, and Mike the history of behind his house in a hilly me being very speciic about Buckingham says, “I called Campbell, from the group.” neighborhood in West Los the right and wrong way to Irving and said, ‘This feels and the Heartbreakers. Angeles, giving his version do something.” funny. Is Stevie leaving the Azof and the other — on the record for the As for smirking, “The irony band, or I getting kicked members of Fleetwood Mac irst time — of his exit from is that we have this standing out?’ ” Azof told the guitarist declined to comment for Fleetwood Mac. Later in the joke that Stevie, when she he was “getting ousted” and this story on Buckingham’s day, he will rehearse with his talks, goes on a long time,” that Nicks gave the rest of the account of his dismissal. own band for a fall tour to Buckingham says. “I may or band “an ultimatum: Either But in April, Fleetwood — promote Solo Anthology: The

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ILLUSTRATION BY Brian Staufer November 2018 | Rolling Stone | 41 T WAS DUSK on a in March cation. As for the legality, the patient had ONVENTIONAL WISDOM — at least since 2017, and the women’s health clin- obtained a judge’s approval, as Texas law re- 2016, when candidate Donald Trump ic in San Antonio was near empty, quires any underage girl without her par- bluntly declared his intention to ap- while a nurse sat finishing some ent’s permission to do before making an C point justices who would overturn end-of-the-week paperwork and appointment. Roe v. Wade — has held that the gravest threat the phone rang. The man on the When she got home, the nurse Googled to to reproductive freedom in the other end of the line introduced see if a Dr. Shaanan Meyerstein even exist- would come, eventually, from the Supreme himselfI as Dr. Meyerstein with the Oice of Ref- ed at ORR, a division of the Department of Court. But while the focus has been on the judi- ugee Resettlement in Washington, D.C., the Health and Human Services. As long as she’d READERS’ cial branch, oicials in the executive have been agency charged with the temporary care of chil- worked at the clinic it had been a target of anti- quietly writing the constitutionally protected dren who are appre hended while crossing the abortion activists, and it occurred to her that POLL right to an abortion out of federal rules and border alone. this man might be one of them, just pretending grant guidelines. Today, the ability of low-in- Earlier that day, the clinic had given a to work for the government. come women to secure an abortion is poised to 17-year-old girl the irst dose of a medication She wasn’t entirely wrong. Meyerstein was Do you disappear even before the next challenge to Roe abortion — a regimen that requires two sets of a civil servant who had worked for ORR’s un- think ICE lands before the court — and for immigrant girls pills to be taken at least 24 but no more than accompanied-minor program since the Obama should be in ORR custody it may no longer exist at all. 48 hours apart. Meyerstein wanted to know administration, but depositions and internal abolished? The Department of Health and Human Ser- what would happen if the girl didn’t take her documents show he was acting on orders from vices is a sprawling agency with a trillion-dollar second dose. a tight group of pro-life crusaders recently in- budget and nearly a dozen operating divisions, The nurse knew the patient he was asking stalled in the top ranks of the Department of 72% including the Food and Drug Administration, about: petite, shy, brown hair and a face that Health and Human Services: Maggie Wynne, Yes the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- looked younger than the age on her chart. A counselor to the secretary of HHS; Matt Bow- tion, the National Institutes of Health and the chaperone from the government-funded shel- man, a lawyer in their Office of the General government-run health programs Medicare ter where she was being held accompanied her Counsel; and Scott Lloyd, the man recently and Medicaid. It has a hand in everything from to the appointment. tapped to helm ORR. 28% funding preschool programs and regulating vi- The clinic had rules protecting patient priva- Late into the night, the oicials were hud- No tamins to identifying Superfund sites and mon- cy, the nurse said, but she ofered some general dling about how to handle the situation down itoring Ebola outbreaks. LRICH EX/SHUTTERSTOCK information about the risks any patient would in San Antonio. They began drafting a directive Go to Rolling During the Obama administration, no area of face if she didn’t take the rest of her pills: dead- that would radically re-imagine the role of in- Stone.com the federal government was more reviled by the NFOWARS; STEVE ly infection; serious, prolonged bleeding; and coming ORR director Lloyd, granting him un- for next religious right than HHS. Viewed by religious the possibility of birth defects if the pregnan- precedented power over the pregnant, under- issue’s poll. Republicans as the primary staging ground for cy progressed. age girls who ended up in the agency’s custody the administration’s assaults on “faith” and If he wanted more information about the — including the power to make “all medical de- “freedom,” HHS was assailed for implementing risks, she said, he could ind it on the FDA’s cisions for the unaccompanied alien child in rules that expanded hospital visitation rights website. She the phone, but Meyer- place of the child’s parents.” (HHS declined to same- couples, protected transgender stein called a second time. And a third. Increas- to make any of the individuals involved in this patients from discrimination and required em- ingly frantic, he told her that questions were story available for interviews.) ployers to ofer birth-control coverage. being asked about the safety and legality of the The girl, meanwhile, remained unaware of It was a coup, then, when Trump installed treatment the girl had received that day. any of this. Staf members at her shelter had pious orthopedic surgeon Tom Price as sec- His inquiries struck the nurse as strange been told to withhold her second set of pills, retary, who, with the help of the office of for someone who claimed to have a medical but no one mentioned that her pregnancy — Vice President Mike Pence, began stocking degree. Medication abortions are extreme- and, with it, the contours of the rest of her life the department with an army of culture-war ly common in the United States, and safe: — was being debated by a handful of bureau- veterans plucked from the country’s most Fewer than one-quarter of one percent of pa- crats based in a beige, Brutalist oice building religious organizations — the archcon- FROM LEFT: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; SKY CINEMA/SHUTTERSTOCK; U tients experience any kind of major compli- 1,600 miles away. servative Family Research Council, the anti- BAUMGARTEN/GETTY IMAGES; TAMARA BECKWITH/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK;PETTEWAY/SUPREME COURT I OF THE UNITED “NATIONAL STATES; ENQUIRER”; R

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CLIMATE HOAX ANTIVAXXER INFO BROS FOUL PLAY? CLINTON CLASH “The concept of “I am being proven “Your reputation Trump flirts with the NEW JFK THEORY Trump says the sui- Global warming right about massive is amazing. I will theory that Justice After a picture sur- cide of Bill Clinton was created by and vaccinations — the not let you down,” Antonin Scalia was of Ted Cruz’s aide Vince Foster BIRTHER LIES for the Chinese in doctors lied,” Trump 9/11 TRUTHER Trump tells Alex murdered: “They father, Rafael, with was “very fishy,” “Somebody told order to make U.S. tweets, though Trump says Bush Jones, host of say they found a Lee Harvey Oswald, boosting conspir- me,” Trump says of manufacturing non- the theory has had “advance InfoWars , 9/11 pillow on his face, Trump suggests acy theories that Obama’s birth certif- competitive,” Trump been completely notice” of 9/11 but truther and Sandy which is a pretty Rafael was con- he was murdered. icate, “it might [say] tweets. debunked. didn’t stop it. Hook denier. unusual place to nected to the JFK Foster “knew every- ‘Muslim.’ ” find a pillow.” assassination. thing,” Trump says.

42 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 abortion Susan B. Anthony List, Americans of administering the hormone United for Life, and the National Abstinence Ed- progesterone to “reverse” the ucation Association among them. By the time efects of mifepristone, the irst Price was forced to step down over a spending dose of a medication abortion. scandal last September, HHS had already been The practice, widely discredited transformed into what the Family Research as junk science, is nonetheless Council called “a virtual promise-keeping fac- popular with anti-abortion ac- tory” for Christian conservatives. tivists who have promoted it as As Shannon Royce, an alum of the Family an option for women who may Research Council and current head of the Cen- regret their decision immediate- ter for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Part- ly after beginning the process. nerships at HHS, told a gathering of evangeli- The girl in question, though, cals in January, Trump’s HHS “is absolutely a hadn’t expressed any regret, and pro-life team, across the spectrum, and that she wasn’t involved in the oi- is playing out in many ways.” The “team” has cials’ discussions about injecting found ways to codify its agenda in corners as her with hormones, a staf mem- disparate as the annual budget for the Centers ber at the shelter told the nurse. for Disease Control and Prevention, where the But HHS oicials seemed to de- words “fetus” and “transgender” were banned, cide the girl’s opinion wasn’t all to the Administration for Community Living, that relevant, and spelled out as which eliminated questions about sexual orien- CULTURE takes a department that was supposed to pro- much in the memo dispatched to ORR field tation from a survey of seniors and people liv- WARRIORS tect against discrimination and turns it on its staf, directing them to take the girl to a local Pence and ing with disabilities. Royce herself was particu- former HHS head,” says Jocelyn Samuels, a director of OCR emergency room. “If steps can be taken to pre- larly proud of wedging into HHS’ strategic plan Secretary under the Obama administration. In relatively serve the life of the . . . unborn child, those steps a sentence that redeines life as starting at the Price, who short order, Trump’s HHS has also managed to should be taken,” it read. moment of conception. stepped down roll back Obama’s employer birth-control man- It’s not unusual for girls to arrive at an ORR in 2017 amid Many of the changes are small enough to go date, withdraw a separate rule that prevented shelter already pregnant, many as a result of /GETTY IMAGES

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AIGHEAD/THE ; NBC unnoticed in a ream of government paperwork scandal. Under states from punishing family-planning clinics their journey. According to a 2010 Amnesty In- but are nevertheless far-reaching: Strike a few Trump, HHS that ofer abortion services, and revise a rule ternational estimate, six in 10 female migrants words from a single grant, for instance, and has been prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gen- are sexually assaulted at some point during called a “virtual suddenly government-funded shelters are no der identity. their crossing. promise- longer required to provide information about keeping “We were expecting gender identity and Under the Obama administration, requests emergency contraception or abortion to vic- factory” for birth control,” says Kevin Griis, assistant sec- for abortion were only elevated to the direc- tims of sexual assault and sex traicking. Or tin- Christian retary for public afairs at HHS under Obama, tor’s oice if there was a question of funding. ker with eligibility requirements for Title X — a conservatives. now VP of communications at Planned Parent- (Under the Amendment, the federal gov- program that provides family-planning services hood. “We weren’t expecting religion seeping ernment can pay for abortions only in cases to 4 million Americans — and suddenly not just into the Oice of Refugee Resettlement.” of rape, incest or if the life of the mother is at access to abortion, but birth control and rou- risk.) Most cases, says Bob Carey, ORR director tine medical care for low-income women across HE NURSE IN San Antonio woke the under Obama, were treated no diferently than the country are in jeopardy. following morning to an e-mail from any other emergency medical procedure, like, HHS touted more boldly, in January, the cre- an employee at the girl’s shelter: Top say, an appendectomy. ation of a new Conscience and Religious Free- T oicials at HHS had a speciic list of “The point,” Carey says, “wasn’t that we — dom Division inside its Oice of Civil Rights to questions for her and they were demanding or the director — had the right to authorize an defend doctors who refuse to serve gay and answers in writing. Their questions posed in abortion, rather that you were authorizing, as NEWS; RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; TOM WILLIAMS/CQ ROLL CALL TOP: AP IMAGES/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK. BOTTOM, FROM LEFT: MARK MAKELA/GEGETTY IMAGES; EVAN VUCCI/AP IMAGES/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; SHEALAH CR transgender individuals. “It’s perverse — it the e-mail centered on the dubious practice appropriate, the use of federal funds.”

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November 2018 | Rolling Stone | 43 44 HHS over ORR’s policy. abortion right “That says BrigitteAmiri,anACLU lawyer who’s suing process,”himself into theirdecision-making inding newwayswith minors,heis toinject citizen. American ing herthat ifshe kept herchild,itwould an“anchor to baby” termmight call —advis- couraged oneyoung what Trump girl tocarry to adoptherchildifthegirl kept He it. even en- they were notvetted inany way —thatofered to thegirl andtoLloyd himself, who admitted pregnant girl aletterfrom afamily —strangers of an abortion toagirl whoof anabortion asked toterminate. he ordered toread agraphicdescription staf ultrasounds,andinonecase unnecessary cally news. He’s thatgirls begiven instructed medi- warned herfamily violently mightreact tothe cording even tointernale-mails, when she’s agirl’salert parents inherhomecountry, ac- lic news network lastfall. message inperson,that’s ine,” hetold aCatho- “Ifit’scisions: formetodeliver necessary that ly counselinggirls inORRcare abouttheirde- approval.his Lloyd hasadmitted to personal- options counseling—would take placewithout appointments, nomeetingswithlawyers, no clared that —nomedical absolutely noaction weeks gestation. nant underage andnumber girl, of herlocation Lloyd received aspreadsheet every preg- listing of38girlstally in18shelters. Onaweekly basis, verify theinformationbefore comingupwitha shelter each to andcall possible pregnancy reference ofa reports lookingforindications show nal e-mails hadtocross- anORRstafer pregnant girls intheoffice’s custody. Inter- of theORR,heordered anaccountingofall donot.” ofabortion victims “The dance, learnandlove eachother,” Lloyd wrote. Holocaust hadachancetolaugh, play, sing, than theHolocaust: Jews “ diedinthe wasbygalized abortion somemeasures worse irst reported by where hewrote anemotionalpersonalessay, views sinceatleastlaw onabortion school, and Senate.” lawthat is abillinU.S. insixstates andis House “architect restriction of[a]late-term abortion lumbus, where, résumé his says, hewasthe teamoftheKnightsCo- landed onthepolicy Hetions to contraception later andabortion. withreligious doctors a ruletoprotect objec- at George W. Bush’s HHS, where hehelped craft er inBrooklyn before team hejoinedthelegal teach- per inNewJersey andasamiddle-school early stintsasahumor atanewspa- columnist cy, Lloyd résumé none.His lists hadvirtually ations before tohelmtheagen- hewastapped experience refugee managinglarge-scale oper- al authorization. person- tohis shouldevery besubject abortion “Even when he’s notpersonally meeting He ordered toread shelter tooneyoung staf He’s must eforts alsoinsisted bemade to tostaf,Lloyd irste-mails In someofhis de- Before Lloyd waseven sworn inasthehead The 39-year-old fatherofsixhasheldstrong Unlike Carey, andahalfof who hadadecade Scott Lloyd itdiferently. sees He believes

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her bestinterest.” notin is case inthis withanabortion assisting “Iam convincedhe foundontheInternet. that literature withlinkstopro-life notated hesaid memodenyingoicial hertheprocedure, an- may traumatize further her,” Lloyd wrote inhis olence thatwascommittedagainsther, andit ofthevi- will notundoorerasethememory self ifshe was forced to remain “It pregnant. young who threatened rapevictim tokillher- not app tion” ofthepopulationORRserves. Buthehas ownnant minors—inhis words, a“tiny frac- watch, Lloyd hasbeenmicromanaging preg- grams topay forit. dollars have beendiverted from otherHHSpro- the endofyear, andhundreds ofmillion bling from 12,000 tomore than25,000 before of unaccompaniedminorsintheircare dou- gaming outscenariosthatimaginethenumber are inplace,oicials reportedlygration policies being detained.” newimmi- With Trump's strict have peoplewho dohave who are status legal therestatus . . . because are where instances you former ORRdirector, “even ifthey have legal goingthey’re tobearrested,” says Carey, the [are] to comeforward reluctant for that fear kids incustody at anall-timehigh.“Sponsors is tention hasnearly doubledandthenumber of an unaccompaniedchildspendsinORRde- these young people.” opposition —on to abortion gious ideological own —his personalreli-position ofideology there justastunningabuseofpower is andim- L jected to a medically unnecessary pelvic unnecessary exam toamedically jected after thegirl andsub- wastaken tothe hospital a Saturday seekinganemergency order —and tion, knockingonajudge’s doorat9p.m. on team, tipped ofby thenurse, sprungintoac- were.ous theiractions After anad hoclegal mustCounsel have realized how legally dubi- As this crisis hasbeenunfolding onhis crisis As this During Lloyd’s tenure, thenumber ofdays roved Noteven asingle abortion. fora nio, someoneintheOiceofGen underwaythe abortion inSanAnto- leagues w AST MARCH, WHEN Lloyd col- andhis e re exploring ways to stop eral countries. people from 78 settle 84,994 year, ithelped Obama's last immigrants. In for millionsof job placement classes and language assistance, financial with providing been tasked 1975, ORRhas cr Since itwas STATEMENT MISSION custody. department’s minors inthe the pregnant decisions of the medical control over unprecedented sought Lloyd has ORR Dir BELIEVER TRUE eated in ector

tion inJune, “We’re justgetting started.” Rights, toldtheNational RighttoLifeconven- as Roger Severino, headofHHS’s OiceofCivil possible. And is anything the Supreme Court, side HHS, ofthem irmly on andtwo seated appointees’ handsonthelevers ofpower in- couldn’t before. Now, withdozens ofTrump can’t For banabortion. anyone.” Oratleastyou since the1970s. bedrock reproductive rightsthat have existed conservative toerode willingness majority’s wherethe Supreme itwilltestthenew Court, beappealed tocome, itwillalmostcertainly Whatever returns theout- court adecision. questions duetothependinglitigation.)ciic tative couldn’t saidthedepartment answer spe- order.challenging thecourt (An HHSrepresen- er three-judge panelontheD.C. Circuit Court, 26th, lawyers forHHSwere backbefore anoth- erating underthepolicy. ButonSeptember ordera court ORRfrom inplacebarring op- continues. be performed without Lloyd’s authorization, could noabortions in March, which dictated ight over hammered out thepolicy thatnight —theBut that rulingwas to speciic hercase andthegirl’sfull court, wasgranted. abortion the ground hasshifted beneathher. stead, astheighthasstretched onformonths, and Amiriwould move ontohernext In- case. ernment’s grantthegirl mistake, herabortion, lieved would acourt quickly recognize thegov- lastfall,itseemedopen-and-shut. Shebe- case at thetime,nooneknew how ominous. nous signforreproductive rightsnationwide — shemerit intheargument, added,wasanomi- that Kavanaughaccess. Andthefact couldsee thegirl’s supporting an amicusbrief to right a group attorneys of19state general who iled Attorney Barbara General Underwood, who led custodyin his —was horrifying,” says New York est ofeveryone —every unaccompaniedminor ed intheU.S., tothebestinter- wascontrary constitutionally which is protect-an abortion, nominees. Supreme Court added Kavanaugh’s ofpotential nameto alist abortion.”from facilitating after, Shortly Trump ing thebestinterests ofaminor, andrefraining vested interest in“favoring life, fetal protect- was placedwithasponsor to make adecision. after 20weeks, should have towaituntilshe wherepregnant inastate are abortions illegal Brett Kavanaugh ruledthat thegirl, 15 weeks 2017,in October athree-judge panelledby tle went alltheway to theD.C. Circuit, where, girl’s forweeks. bat- incourt Thelegal abortion followed. Lloyd would go on toightanother ORR would requests respond toabortion that after, forged buthercase second doseandcompleteherabortion. — HHSlawyers inally allowed hertotake her “It’s avery simplecase,” says “You Amiri. It willlikely beweeks ormonthsbefore the Since March year, ofthis there hasbeen Kavanaugh’s wasoverturned by decision the When Amiri,theACLU lawyer, took onthe ideathat [Lloyd]“The could concludethat The government, Kavanaugh wrote, hada The girl wasreleased toasponsornotlong the template forhow

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45 Trump’s Toxic Agenda The administration is on an insane fossil-fuel bender — hastening catastrophic climate change and gambling with our health By PHOEBE NEIDL and ANDREA MARKS

not just rolling back Gutting Fuel Obama rules, they’re basically trying to crush Standards marketplace opposition in The hit on gas mileage is favor of their cronies.” Trump’s most danger- ous rollback yet Donald Trump is promising every Unleashing American a less-eicient Greenhouse car, so they can spend more money at the gas Gases pump, breathe in more air Superpollutant - pollution and cook the sions get deregulated globe quicker with carbon emissions. “This is one of They don’t get as the single most damaging much attention as rollbacks attacking climate carbon dioxide, but both and clean-air safeguards methane and hydroluo- in American history,” says rocarbons (HFCs) dwarf Vickie Patton, general CO2’s heat-trapping ability. counsel at the Environ- And methane leaks from mental Defense Fund. oil and gas operators have Standards set in 2012 by become -larg- would have est source of industrial doubled gas mileage by greenhouse-gas emissions 2025, but Trump is in the U.S. But Trump is freezing those improve- trying to kill regulations ments (a decision even that forced operators to re- automakers like Ford and duce the leaks, a rollback Honda have spoken out that could mean 380,000 against). Plus, he’s trying more tons of pollution, the to strip California of its equivalent of 2.6 million legal right to set its own cars. The EPA is also try- standards, which have historically functioned as ing to roll back regulations a national benchmark. emissions of 82 percent of limits ever placed on times as much carbon, AMERICA on HFCs (emitted from air The administration’s own the countries on Earth. pollution from coal- and and may cause 1,400 FOR SALE conditioners, refrigerators gas-ired power plants. Its premature deaths a year Rules are and aerosols). The “super- analysis of the rollback being predicts the planet will goal was to reduce the due to pollution. A leaked rolled pollutant” is so powerful, warm a catastrophic 4 energy grid’s carbon internal memo shows back, and however, that without a degrees Celsius by 2100, Trump’s Gift emissions 32 percent Trump is considering they’re worldwide phase-down also not below 2005 levels, and it another drastic measure: it could cause a half-de- but argues not much can to Coal Plants being be done to stop it, so why was the linchpin to requiring power-grid enforced: gree Celsius of warm- bother trying. Controlling Striking blows to both meeting our commitment operators to use coal and In his first ing by 2100 — enough to transportation emissions the Agreement to the Paris Agreement, nuclear power plants — as year, single-handedly torpedo and clean power Trump — the largest man-made the pact signed by every opposed to cleaner sought 63 the Paris Agreement. And source of carbon dioxide The 76 regulations other country in the world natural gas or renewables percent then there’s the corrup- in the U.S. — would be a and counting that to control global tempera- — meaning consumers less in tion: Former EPA head fines from good start. According to Trump is rolling back read ture rise. Obama’s plan would be spending more polluters Scott Pruitt was lobbied the research irm like a wish list for the coal was also projected to money on dirtier power. than about HFCs by J. Steven Rhodium Group, this industry. Chief among prevent as many as “It’s insanity,” says Pat Obama Hart, whose wife Pruitt did. rollback could mean an them is the dismantling of 90,000 child asthma Gallagher, legal director of rented a Capitol Hill condo annual carbon increase Obama’s Clean Power attacks a year, while the Sierra Club. “The from at a third of the mar- greater than the combined Plan, the irst set of federal Trump’s could release 12 Trump administration is ket rate.

46  ILLUSTRATIONS BY Victor Juhasz of pipeline development.” percent success rate in Just after his inaugura- protecting roughly 1,600 American tion, Trump approved species, including the bald Gaslandia the iercely protested eagle. But Trump has Opening up protected Dakota Access and Key- proposed a raft of rule changes that could gut the lands and monuments stone XL pipelines. Both statute’s efectiveness and for the fuel industry would spell disaster if they leaked. The Keystone, for clear the way for yet more In the blitz toward example, runs over the drilling and mining. “energy domi- Ogallala aquifer, the larg- “Extractive industries and nance,” Trump has not est expanse of freshwater this push for energy only been tearing down on the continent. dominance have just regulations but also pushed every other feverishly exploring for consideration aside,” says more fossil fuels. In 2017, Bob Dreher of the the government ofered nonproit Defenders of 11.9 million acres of public Poisoning Wildlife. Plus, the for oil and gas leasing, the Air administration is gearing a 500 percent increase up to look for oil in the Deadly mercury levels HEALTH guidance making it easier below is laden with toxic from the year before. In Arctic National Wildlife could quadruple HAZARD for plants to turn of their heavy metals like arsenic August, Trump ofered the Refuge. “They risk killing “Actions are pollution controls, which, and lead, which seep into largest oil-and-gas-lease The Trump being taken polar bear cubs, interfer- according to one study, streams. One of Trump’s auction ever, for 77 million administration is with reckless ing with caribou migra- could more than quadru- irst actions in oice was acres in the Gulf of . reconsidering a 2011 disregard for tion,” says Gallagher of the human ple the output of toxins to sign the repeal of a law “It’s all up for grabs, and pollution control on Sierra Club. “It’s the sufering,” and disproportionately that held coal-mining this administration insists mercury and other toxins says the saddest juxtaposition of impact the poor. “That’s companies accountable on grabbing it,” says Nada emitted from coal plants. EDF’s Patton. our natural heritage true of most Trump for the polluted water- Culver of the Wilderness Mercury is particularly One Harvard versus Trump’s insane oil study rollbacks,” says Gallagher, ways. The toxins are being Society. dangerous for pregnant and gas frenzy.” estimates “because they favor heavy tied to learning disabili- Trump also has his eye women and can damage combined industries,” which are ties, kidney stones, tooth on land not yet available fetal brain health. The air-pollution closer to disadvantaged loss, cancer and, accord- for grabbing: He ordered regulation has success- rollbacks could mean communities. ing to one lawsuit, fully reduced emissions of reviews of 27 national at least “unremitting diarrhea.” Suppressing the pollutant by 70 monuments and 11 marine 80,000 The health impacts are Science sanctuaries, and already percent, and it could more deaths woefully understudied, per decade. shrank monuments in prevent as many as 11,000 however, and likely to A backdoor attack on Utah by some 2 million premature deaths from Polluting remain that way: The pollution standards acres. “Their playbook heart and lung disease Waterways administration also Tearing up is to remove any restric- annually. Meanwhile, the canceled funding for a regulations is a little tions on public lands that EPA has already weakened Coal waste dumped into major study on the health easier if you can toss out may interfere with the oil enforcement: EPA our streams risks of mountaintop- the science they’re based and gas industry,” says assistant administrator When mountain- removal mining. Even on. The EPA has proposed Gallagher of the Sier- Bill Wehrum — a longtime tops are blown up more troubling, Trump is mandating that only ra Club, who also notes lawyer for chemical and to mine coal, the debris working to reverse a scientiic studies with there’s been “a bonanza oil companies — issued a that falls into the valleys crucial 2015 change to the “publicly available” data Clean Water Act that can be used in drafting would expand federal regulations. It sounds protection to an estimated innocuous, but it could 2 million miles of streams suppress a wide swath of and 20 million acres of research — anything wetlands, which contrib- containing the coniden- ute to the drinking water tial medical information of of 117 million Americans. participants — including landmark peer-reviewed studies that undergird a range of regulations on air Endangering and water pollutants, as Wildlife well as chemicals and pesticides. These studies Putting oil and gas “have long been the target above at-risk species of a fringe set of actors in Since 1973, the industry,” says Patton of Endangered Species the Environmental Act has been one of the Defense Fund. “Those crowning achievements of fringe forces have found the environmental their voices in the Trump movement, with a 90 administration.”

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Zoe Kravitz grew up a lower child in the canyons of L.A. with her actress mom and a jet-set teen in with her rock-star dad. But she’s making her own way to the top

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ple of years younger than she is. Braids fall loosely At the time, Lenny was still a year away from re- around her shoulders, and her forearms are adorned leasing his irst album, but Bonet was as successful with dozens of delicate tattoos — an eagle, a feather, as she’d ever been, starring in her own sitcom, the a snake, a mermaid. Her ingers and ears are span- Cosby spinof A Diferent World. “I’m sure they had a gled with gold, and on her left hand there’s a painful- conversation of ‘What do you want to do?’ ” Zoë says. looking she got last fall in London, while ilming “But for whatever reason, she decided to keep me.” Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the Harry (“It really wasn’t a question,” says Bonet. “I don’t Potter spinof due out this month. “I was making tea remember ever thinking, ‘I can’t do this.’ ”) with one of those electric kettles, and I didn’t lock When Bill Cosby, creator of A Different World, the top,” she says, wincing. She takes out her phone heard Bonet was pregnant, he reportedly was very and pulls up a photo of a blister the size of a tanger- upset. (Bonet says she doesn’t remember, but she ine. “The thing about third-degree burns . . . ” she says does call him “Mr. Righteous,” which kind of says all — which is never how you want to begin a sentence. you need to know.) Bonet was written of her own It’s a warm, , so we decide to take show, and when she came back to The Cosby Show a a stroll over the Williamsburg Bridge into . few months later, she appeared in a limited number Kravitz grew up in L.A., but she prefers New York — of episodes before eventually leaving for good. “Her the energy, the spontaneity, the randomness. A hun- and him never got along,” Kravitz says. “Whether he dred feet above the East River, trains by and was attracted to her, or he resented her having a mind cyclists whiz past. A few pedestrians do double takes, of her own, she always got a weird vibe from him. A but no one stops her. dark vibe.” She says she recently found a photo of Maybe it’s because she grew up near the spotlight, herself on set as a baby, with Cosby holding her. “It’s but Kravitz seems happy in of fame, actually a really disturbing picture,” she says. “His S successful but relatively anonymous. Though lately face is not a sweet face at all. It’s kind of creepy.” UNDAY she’s landing more high-proile roles (e.g., Beasts, In the end, mom and daughter say it was all for the afternoon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the neigh- where she appears as the wizard Leta Lestrange), she best. “She always tells me I saved her life,” Zoë says. borhood is being its Williamsburgiest self. Outside has no burning ambitions to be an A-list star. “I’m still “She didn’t intend on being famous, but then she be- a gentriied cofee shop under the grimy elevated doing lots of supporting parts, and I’m in no rush,” came this sensation, and she was so young and really J-M-Z tracks, a jaywalking Hasidic man darts into she says. “I’m getting better, and I wasn’t ready to be private. So moving away, being with her child — she the street, making a dude with dreadlocks in an working with the kind of people I’m working with really responds well to stillness and privacy.” SUV pump his brakes. Inside the cafe, three white now. So I’m happy with the pace of the ride.” Lenny and Bonet split up when Zoë was two. She twentysomethings are brainstorming about starting Onscreen, Kravitz can sometimes come across has no memories of them together. She lived with her the hashtag #stopkillingpeople when a woman in line as aloof or intimidating, but in person she’s funny mom in L.A.’s Topanga Canyon, a -ish enclave overhears them and says she loves it. “Oh, thanks!” and endearingly chill. “There’s this Kravitz family where they had chickens and two dogs, one of them one says. “We’re trying to igure out ways to promote thing where people think we’re really cool and seri- a half-wolf named Dusk. There were a few show- our !” ous, which always makes me laugh — because we’re biz people around — one of Bonet’s best friends, “Noooooooo,” says Zoë Kravitz when told of this some of the gooiest people in the world,” she says. , is Zoë’s godmother — but it was by exchange a few minutes later. “Were they serious?” She loves burritos and cuddling rescue dogs on the no means a Hollywood childhood. Kravitz went to a She hangs her head. “Aw, man.” street (“Look at that nose!”), does a Waldorf school in the Valley under Kravitz, 29, has lived in Williamsburg for 10 years, killer impression of Bane with un- the name Zoë Moon. They had a TV, and she enjoys the same pastime as many of its resi- derpants on her head, and spent “Burning but it wasn’t hooked up — once a dents: complaining about how much cooler it used to six summers in a row getting ilthy Man really week, she got to pick out a movie be. “There’s a fuckin’ Apple Store,” she says. “Which in the desert at Burning Man. “I was from the video store. used to be my bagel spot!” A few years ago, she led a serious Burner, man!” she says. “It opened me up She didn’t see her dad much — the neighborhood’s increasingly moneyed epicenter really opened me up — just meeting – meeting maybe a couple of times a year. (“I didn’t want to live in an ugly new condo around a strangers, experiencing that creativ- “He wasn’t absent,” she says. “But bunch of investment bankers”) for its relatively grit- ity, letting your guard down.” strangers, he was working a lot. I didn’t feel tier southern parts. “It’s totally diferent down here,” A pause. “And obviously the letting your abandoned or anything. But when she says. “These people aren’t going anywhere.” Ecstasy helped.” guard down. you’re that age, and someone Kravitz orders a latte with an extra shot and says comes and goes, it Santa she woke up “mere moments ago.” (It’s 1:06 p.m.) IF YOU KNOW only one thing about And obviously Claus or something — it’s this event. She just got back from London, and now her inter- Zoë Kravitz, it’s probably that the Ecstasy Looking back, it’s hard: My mom nal clock is all screwed up. Yesterday she slept until Lenny is her dad. And if you know everything for me, and I 4 p.m., rolling out of bed to catch on one more, it’s probably that her helped.” kind of took that for granted; and Broadway with her new pal and Big co-star mom is former Cosby Show actress then my dad gets to stroll into town, Reese Witherspoon. Afterward, they grabbed dinner, Lisa Bonet. Lenny and Bonet met backstage at a New and he’s the hero. I look back and really feel for her then Kravitz stayed up until 5 a.m. binge- watching Edition in 1985 and were immediate soul- in that situation.” Friends on Netlix. “I love Friends so deeply,” she mates: two artsy half-black/half-Jewish kids — what When Kravitz was 11, Lenny loated the idea of her says. “Obviously it’s a bummer when you look back were the odds? She was the beautiful breakout star coming to live with him for a while. “I think it was re- and everyone is white. But it’s like chicken soup.” on the biggest show on TV; he was the son of an ally hard for my mom,” she says. “But it was also im- Sometimes she’ll watch so many in a row that Netlix actress (The Jeffersons’ ) and an aspir- portant to her that I knew him, because she and her interrupts to ask if she’s still there. “And then a single ing rocker who went by the name Romeo Blue. They father aren’t close at all.” So Kravitz moved across tear rolls down my cheek,” she says, laughing, “and eloped to Vegas on Bonet’s 20th birthday. Within the country to Miami, where Lenny was living at the I click ‘continue.’ ” months, she was pregnant. time. “That was a massive change,” she says. “Going Kravitz is stylish in black Adidas Sambas, a long “They were not planning to have a baby,” Kravitz from this really quiet house in Topanga, just me and white slip and a vintage Nirvana T-shirt that’s a cou- says. “Total surprise. I have to conirm if this is true, my mom, to my dad’s life, which was very busy — lots but my dad told me she may have thrown a hair dryer of people, lots of assistants.” Contributing editor JOSH EELLS wrote the Eric at him.” (Says Lenny, “It wasn’t a hair dryer. It was This was Peak Lenny, right after the time of “Fly

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52 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 with cousins, and I remember they had a VHS of that movie Houseguest, starring Sinbad. I literally just watched Houseguest for a month. I don’t know, dude. It was weird.” (“The sun was going down early, and Zoë started to look really pasty and dry,” explains Lenny. “I just felt like it wasn’t healthy. So I took her to the sun.” In any case, he says, “She turned out OK.”) But Kravitz says her dad was doing his best. Once he let her sit with the at an awards show, which she loved. A few years later he arranged for her to meet , thinking she’d be equally thrilled. “But I was like” — Kravitz adopts a bratty tween-girl voice — “‘I don’t like Britney Spears! I like punk music!’ ” She laughs. “Poor guy.”

ONET SAYS she always knew Zoë would be a performer. As a teenager, she’d spend hours in her room, memorizing lyrics from her favorite CDs: , BNo Doubt, . “She’s a Sagit- tarius, so she’s always had that charm and swagger,” Bonet says. “I assumed music was going to be the direction she went in.” Her dad thought the opposite. “She grew up around it, and she seemed so indifferent,” Lenny says. “She did not want to be a part of that world. I thought she’d go to school and be a doctor or lawyer.” When she got to high school, though, Kravitz started gravitating toward acting. By this time she’d persuaded her dad to escape Miami (“No disrespect to Miami,” she says, “but girls dressing in clothes at 14, not a lot of art or depth — I deinitely felt like an outcast”) and give New York another shot. She joined the drama club and did some plays: Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Grease (she played Rizzo). She also did her share of Upper East Side teen partying — drink- ing forties, smoking weed. When her parents, both herbalists themselves, found out, her mom sat her down. “ ‘It’s cool, just don’t lie,’ ” Kravitz recalls her mom saying before giving her a joint. At irst her parents made a rule that she couldn’t act professionally until she inished high school. “You only get one childhood,” says Bonet, who started on The Cosby Show when she was just 16. “My in- tention was to nurture and protect that for as long as possible.” But then when Zoë was 15, Lenny helped her get an agent. “Her father made a decision swifter than I would have,” Bonet says. Says Lenny, “I thought she’d been exposed to so much of this world that there wasn’t too much talking to be done. I trusted her and thought she was prepared to handle herself gracefully.” Kravitz’s irst big break came in 2011, with X-Men: First Class, which she filmed when she was 21, me up, and the entire school would lock to the park- happened.” (Now, of course, Kidman is her co-star alongside other up-and-coming stars like Jennifer ing lot,” Kravitz says. “And he wasn’t being subtle: on Big Little Lies. “It was funny to be on set with Lawrence (who became a friend) and Michael Fass- He’d show up in a sports car and leather pants and her,” Kravitz says. “Like, ‘Remember when you were bender (who became her boyfriend). Soon she was a netted shirt. Like, ‘Dude, can you just be low-key engaged to my dad?’ ”) appearing in blockbusters like Mad Max: Fury Road a little bit?” she says with a laugh. “Just a shirt that Not to pass judgment, but it’s possible Lenny (“Such a masterpiece, I still can’t believe I’m in that I can’t see your nipples through would be so dope.” wasn’t always the strictest father. At one point they movie”) and the Divergent franchise, which starred Kravitz remembers Mick Jagger hanging around. moved to New York briefly, and Zoë enrolled in her friend and Big Little Lies castmate Shailene Once she woke up to find Ashton Kutcher in her school. “But then winter hit, and my dad was like, Woodley. (“I’m totally her little sidekick,” Kravitz kitchen making omelets. A little later, Lenny was ‘It’s so cold! Let’s go to the Bahamas for a week!’ So says, “but it was good for the time.”) secretly engaged to Nicole Kidman, and sometimes and just didn’t come back. I fully didn’t go Kravitz is the irst to admit she had a leg up thanks Kidman would take Zoë to the movies. “She was nice, to school for a month.” Weren’t they getting calls to her parents. But she also says she’s worked really she was cool,” says Kravitz, still sounding unsure from the school? “Probably!” she says. “I think he hard. “There was a whole period from 21 to 25 when what to make of the whole thing. “But yeah . . . that just didn’t feel like dealing with it. We were staying I’d for tons of stuf, and I wouldn’t get hard-

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ly any of it,” she says. “There’s kind of a group of girls I notice, for the irst time, the huge diamond on her Kravitz pours herself a cofee and lights some in- that they go to, and I was not on that list.” left ring inger. “Oh yeah, I’m engaged,” she says, so cense, then sinks into a huge white sectional. The “She didn’t want help,” says her dad. “I did noth- casually I assume she’s joking. “No, I’m engaged!” thing she’s most excited to discuss is her next project: ing except get her an agent — after that, it’s down to she repeats. “I haven’t told anyone yet — I mean, I a reboot of High Fidelity as a series on Disney’s new your work. Somebody may be interested for ive min- haven’t told the world. I wanted to keep it private.” streaming service, launching next year. She plays the utes: ‘Oh, it’s the daughter of . . .’ But nobody cares Kravitz and Glusman, 30, met two years ago, at a lead, John Cusack’s role in the ilm, an emotionally who your mom or dad is if you can’t do the job.” bar with some mutual friends. It wasn’t technical- stunted record-store clerk struggling in life and love. It wasn’t always easy for a young woman of ly a setup, but it totally was. Glusman, who had a “I always related to that character,” Kravitz says. color, even second-generation Hollywood royalty. crush on Kravitz from afar, was initially too nervous “Just this neurotic mess of a person who can’t Kravitz says ilmmakers often told her they wanted to talk to her, but at the end of the night, as he was of her own way. It’s ironic to me that in a lot of stories “a more girl-next-door look” or someone “more all- leaving, she hung around outside pretending to be men are the complicated, layered characters, when I American.” (“I was born in America,” she says.) Last on her phone, then invited him back to her place for think women are the most complicated and the most year she was Skyping with some directors about a an afterparty with friends. They made out (“It was layered. We’re supposed to be perfect and take care movie that featured couples of various races, and cute!”), he moved in soon after, and they’ve been of everyone, but sometimes apart and we’re a they said they liked her for the together ever since. “I can be my big ol’ mess. If you don’t see that, you wonder, ‘Am I woman married to the black guy. weirdest self around him,” Kravitz the only one who’s a fuckin’ mess?’ ” “I was like, ‘OK — but I could play “I worked with says. “It’s so relaxing to be around Kravitz is psyched for the show for many reasons, any of the women,’ ” she says. a director who someone where you can be a hun- but the fact that she’s the star is the least among “ ‘Black people don’t have to be dred percent how you feel.” them. “I get to produce, write, direct an episode,” married to other black people.’ A made me very They’d been together for about she says. “And I’m a genuine music nerd, so I’m ex- lot of times it’s just white people uncomfortable. a year and a half when, last Febru- cited to introduce older music to younger people.” not understanding why what they ary, Glusman popped the question. She’s also excited to do comedy, which she’s always say is ofensive.” I was young, He’d planned to surprise her when wanted to try more of. “It’s checking a lot of boxes.” She wishes more films and 19 or 20, and she was in Paris, but when work in- In December, Kravitz will turn 30. She can’t wait. shows would talk about race. “I it was full-on: terfered, he wound up proposing “Your twenties are fun,” she says, “but they’re such a tried to get a little more of that in their living room instead. “I was mess! Making mistakes, not knowing what you want, put into Big Little Lies” — a show ‘Can I come in sweatpants,” recalls Kravitz. “I being a little bit of an asshole. I’m excited for my thir- with Friends-worthy numbers of inside your think I was a little drunk.” Glusman ties, because I have a better sense of and black people. “It didn’t work out,” lit some candles and put on Nina what my intention is with art and how to execute it. she says. “But I wish they’d had room?’ ” Simone (her favorite), then laid I’m sure I’ll make more mistakes,” she adds. “But Reese’s character say, ‘His hot down and started hugging her. “I that’s OK. We’re all beautiful messes.” black wife.’ That’s real! But people are scared to go could feel his heart beating so fast — I was like, ‘Baby, Between her birthday milestone, her work and there. If we’re making art and trying to dissect the are you OK?’ I was actually worried about him!” Glus- her upcoming marriage, Kravitz is at an inlection human condition, let’s really do that.” man dropped to one knee, and Kravitz said, “ ‘Yes, point, both personally and professionally. “It’s a lot She also says she’s been sexually harassed on set. stretch! Stretch to calm your heart down!’ ” of growing up at one time,” she says. “It’s scary, in a “I won’t name names, because I don’t want to ruin But then he pulled out a box, and inside was the good way.” She’s been talking to her mom about the anyone’s life,” she says. “But I definitely worked ring: the exact one she’d been fantasizing about. “He wedding a little bit — Bonet just got remarried herself with a director who made me very uncomfortable. nailed it,” she says. “And I love that it wasn’t this elab- last year, to her longtime partner, actor I was young — maybe 19 or 20 — and we were on lo- orate plan in Paris. It was at home, in sweatpants.” (a.k.a. Aquaman), with whom she has two kids, Lola, cation, staying at the same hotel. And it was full- 11, and Nakoa-Wolf, 9. (Kravitz has a long, hilarious on: ‘Can I come inside your room?’ Just totally inap- HE NEXT AFTERNOON, Kravitz answers story about the first time she met Momoa — who propriate. And then he’d do things like come to the her front door in pajama pants and calls her, adorably, Zozobear — in high school, when makeup trailer and touch my hair. Or say, ‘Let me a baggy Sopranos T-shirt. Her apart- he tagged along to drink forties with her and her see your costume — turn around?’ It’s just never OK ment is amazing: high wood-beam friends.) She talks to her dad almost every day, too. for someone to do that. Especially when they’re in a T ceilings, a private courtyard, a roof- “If I don’t hear from him, I start to wonder what’s position of power.” top terrace, a projector for movie going on,” Kravitz says. “He just loves to chat.” Notably, the two projects she’s proudest of — Mad nights. The walls are decorated with black-and-white As if on cue, a few minutes later her phone rings. Max: Fury Road and Big Little Lies — feature ensem- photos of her mom and Frida Kahlo, and hanging “Hi, Dad!” she says. bles of strong women fighting back against shitty near the bar is a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. “Hey, Babylove!” says Lenny. men. In Lies, Kravitz plays Bonnie, the sexy yoga in- Kravitz says when friends are over and they’ve had “? Are you at 30 Rock?” she asks. structor and younger second wife of Witherspoon’s a few drinks, sometimes they’ll stand under it and Lenny sounds anxious. “What do you mean?” she character’s ex-husband. In the first season, she’s declaim, “I have a drink!” “So stupid,” she says, asks. “We can’t at all?” mostly a foil, without much interiority. “There’s more laughing, then adding, “Much respect to MLK.” (Lest It turns out Lenny is a guest on to- about her in the book, and I was a little bummed we you worry Kravitz lacks proper reverence for Dr. night, and coincidentally, so is Reese Witherspoon. weren’t going to get to explore that,” Kravitz says. But King, she and her dad also have matching FREE AT So Fallon asked Zoë to stop by too, to play a game of while she can’t divulge plot details for Season Two, LAST tattoos.) Charades — Fallon and Witherspoon vs. the she says there’s deinitely more to Bonnie this time Kravitz found this place three years ago while Kravitzes. Improbably, Lenny has never played cha- around. “They’re not using her to tell someone else’s browsing real estate online. “It was totally out of my rades, so last night he came over and Zoë taught him story,” she says. “She has her own story.” price range,” she says. “But I fell in love.” She put in how to play — two syllables, irst word, sounds like, an ofer, and another buyer ofered the same. But etc. But now he’s at the studio, and they’re using all WE’RE NEARLY ACROSS the bridge when Kravitz when she took a tour of the place, she noticed the diferent rules, and he’s kind of freaking out. gets a call from her boyfriend, actor Karl Glusman. owners’ daughter’s bedroom was covered with Diver- “He’s like, ‘I learned all these things, and now I “Hi, baby!” she says. “How’d it go? That’s dope! I gent posters. “I was like, ‘Finally, this movie’s gonna can’t do them! What do I do?’ ” says Zoë. “Such a want to hear all about it. Can I call you in a few? OK. do something for me!’ ” Kravitz recalls. “I never, ever dad fear.” I love you.” She hangs up and smiles. “Karl had a do this, but I said, ‘Look, I see your kid likes this But on the phone, she’s reassuring. “Don’t worry. good audition.” thing. I’m in these movies. Your kid can come to the We’ll igure it out in the dressing room.” We stop at an ice cream shop, where she orders premiere, I’ll have everyone sign books — whatever Lenny starts to protest. “It’s OK,” she says and

vegan mint-chocolate-chip in a cone. At which point you want.’ ” She got the apartment. smiles. “We’ll igure it out.” PREVIOUS SPREAD: TANK BY ZIMMERLI. UNDERWEAR BY CHROME HEARTS

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HOT RAPPER VALEE The soft-spoken Chicago lyricist behind streaming hits like ‘Womp Womp’ and ‘Miami’ is changing the sound of hip-hop in 2018, one unpredictable verse at a time

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about italot— rewrapping acouchorwhatever, Ithink into everything,” hesays. “Whetherit’s didn’t stop him.“Ilike puttingmy all much career, ofaplanfor his butthat (“I couldn’t betooloud”). He didn’t have hekept thevolumean apartment, down and alaptop. Sincehewasrecording in music himselfwithacheapmicrophone on music.” Soon,hetriedmakingsome kind oftheonly reason Ikept uptodate to have music to play,” Valee says. “That’s time Iwould drive my car, Iwould have borhood who admired ride.“Every his neigh- then dothesameforothersinhis ownhis car, he’d igure outhow todoit, If hewanted tothrow bigger wheels on living — wasmakinghis customizing cars. rapterms an oldheadincontemporary and kindofshy.” says. “I’mjustlaid-backandnottoo loud, say onTwitter thatI’mwhispering,” he wordplay.tently surprising “Somepeople they concealcomplex lows andconsis- verses sound quiet onthesurface, but strangely soothingway ofrapping —his haveand listeners allresponded tohis year’s mostinluentialby far. Peers, rivals hitmaker.) Valee’s the though, is style, Chicago compatriot andsudden Top 10 in hip-hop. (That’s likely Juice WRLD, his Music —isn’t themostpopularnewcomer THE HOT LIST 2018 it OK.” say clever anything enough.Thatmakes Theywon’t thatIhearitimitated. fact I haven’t heard ityet,” headds.“Ilike the probably doitwell, someonethatcan but too worried copycats. abouthis “There’s happened fast,” Valee says. Buthe’s not have following leadtoo. begun his “It like NickiMinajandTyler, theCreator verses like Valee’s. More acts established and attemptingdense,unpredictable months ago, are now more softly were intothemicjustafew screaming like LilPump andTekashi 6ix9ine,who Abrasive noisemakers SoundCloud-rap has arguably beenonothermusicians. and counting).Yet biggest impact his in July, even is bigger (8.8millionstreams with , “Womp Womp,” released Job, You Found Me streams forhis millions ofSpotify springandsummer,This heracked up he says. “Iguessitjustkept comingup.” knew aboutthemusic andwho Iwas,” label reps. “Itseemedlike theyalready that won himameetingwithKanye’s always turnsout good.” HOT RAPPER 60 A fewyears ago, Valee —who’s now 30, By lastyear, Valee following hadalocal

| Rolling Stone Stone Rolling signing withKanye West’s G year this after astar who became VALEE —THECHICAGO RAPPER BRENDAN KLINKENBERG a lot VALEE EP; his one-of duet EP; one-of his — then I do it. Andit —thenIdoit. | November 2018 November .O.O.D. .O.O.D. GOOD — subcultures are beingbrought totheforefront.” you toacertainmovement. Maybe it’s theInternet put aweird chunkysneaker, anditdoesn’t confine Deadheads andPhishfans,” says Typaldos. “Butyou dyed shirtsthissummer. “We associatetie-dye with year.” Here are four celebs who’ve given their own spins on Dirtbag Chic. Chic. Dirtbag on spins own who’veyear.” their given celebs four are Here la this formality. imagine Ican’t —they’re rejecting picture abigger reflect does “It Ferreira. who’s York aNew of normcore,” Typaldos, Sky Kat says withFuture worked and stylist like “It’s apare like dropouts. grimy skater looking Stars result? The comfortable. The actorand Sleaze ItUp With Chic Dirtbag structure.” even withinthis are curated ly, butthings place creative- an anarchistic look. We are in her ‘of-duty’ she’s translated interesting how points out.“It’s Typaldos personas,” verse aesthetic she tookondi- a model,and her career as “Cara started inine fashion. ditionally f challenges tra- the queericon Of therunway, In 2018, stoner culture is huge, glamour feels dull, and it seems everyone just wants tob wants just everyone itseems and dull, feels glamour huge, is culture stoner 2018, In JONAH HILL DELEVINGNE CARA HOT LOOK em- sw He’s shedhispretty-boy days withitemslike slouchy of Spicoliin if itlooks like anti-fashion, it’s stillfashion. Itreminds me JUSTIN BIEBER director oftenrocked tie- eats androached-out sneakers. Says Typaldos, “Even Fast Times at RidgemontHigh. ” JERRY PORTWOOD sting longer than a a than longer sting d-down version version d-down p level ofirony.” going backtoa going strong. It’s Nineties are still this feels like the think iscool.And of whatpeople and arejection an acceptance ness.’ Trends are don’t give afuck- a sexiness, an‘I says. “Ithinkit’s sleazy,” Typaldos see itasbeing “I don’t even with confidence. works whenworn skater teealways The roves an an roves SNL e

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61 ‘AFRICA’ TOTO’S ⊲ summary ofmodernalienation thanayacht-rocksummary songaboutthedesert? it hastobebetterthanthenightmare where he’s trapped now. you Could ask for abetter about feelinghomesickfor nowhere. Theonly thingthesinger knows that is aboutAfrica Butwhile “Downit outonthecharts. areal songabout Under”is areal place,“Africa” is Work’s tributetoAustralia continentshave thattwo —theonly timeinpophistory slugged Back inFebruary 1983, when “Africa” hitNumber One, itreplaced “Down Under,” Men at damn songfollows you everywhere, out inthenight. like crying thesoundofwilddogs tition. Love you’ve itorhateit, probably heard “Africa” today. You’ll hearittomorrow. This Weezer, who scored theirirstHot 100hit in years after covering itinresponse to afanpe- karaoketone-deaf singers screaming “Iblesstherains down inAfrica!” —notto mention popular afterlife. Itsfansin2018runthegamut from dank-meme enthusiasts tomoms E cheesed-out this that fact the up 2018 than sums better Nothing , Reborn radio programmer Dave Dickinson. “It’s she’s never hadamajorhit).“Playlists present music this to anewaudience,” says veteran 62 HOT SOUND STREAMING HOT “DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’ ” ighties nonsense song has become our new unofficial anthem new our become unofficial song has nonsense ighties

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⊲ Jackson Samuel L. return, 18 years later, 18 years ‘Glass’ return, in of‘Unbreakable’ The characters Mr. Glass

ing, “Call mewhen it’s over.” to setupascreening to seethe ilm, add- Split 2016comeback hit, the endingofhis character from 2000’scharacter proto-superheroWillis popsupashis ever when (spoileralert!), Bruce twists moments oferoneofShyamalan’s best had noideathat breakable since 2000thatShyamalan intended villain, Mr. Glass.Jackson hasknown big-brained thebrittle-boned, Price, a.k.a. of course,alsostarred Jackson asElijah same universe asthatmovie —which, James McAvoy) exists inthe monster ( revealing that planning tomake thethird part, —orthatShyamalanond entry wasinally tell us,‘No, don’t blink!’ ” according to Jackson. “He usedtoliterally mously intenseShyamalan hasmellowed, that wasagreat thing.” Meanwhile, thefa- do. People don’t hire so metobequiet, allowsomething peopleusually meto was always fondofthecharacter. “It’s not me waitlongenough!” says Jackson, who due intheatersJanuary 18th.“He made HOT SUPERVILLAIN Shyamalan’d Samuel Jackson L. with M. NIGHTSHYAMALAN totally M.Night . Shyamalan told Jackson heneeded astheirstilminatrilogy, but Split Split ’s multiple-personality was thesecret sec- Unbreakable, BRIAN HIATT Split ’s Glass ’s inal thus Un- ,

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The ‘Lodge 49’ star with SoCal good looks and goofy vibe is ready to go ight Nazi zombies

TAKE ONE LOOK at Wyatt Russell ⊲ — shaggy blond hair, SoCal hipster beard — and you can see why folks consider him a stoner heart- throb. “What I want to do,” the 32-year-old actor says, “is ind roles with the same magic you feel when you’re high. It’s there even when you’re not stoned.” It’s why the Hollywood royalty — he’s the son of and Kurt Russell — has such an ainity for Dud, his amiable ex-surfer who joins a secret society on AMC’s dramedy Lodge 49 (and who doesn’t toke up, “though you’d think that he did”). Having originally blown of acting for playing pro hockey in Europe until getting sidelined by an injury, Russell eventually realized that “I didn’t have to be Jef Spicoli or the Dude. I could do my own thing.” Now he can be the leading man on a quirky TV show one minute and do a soldiers-vs.-Nazi- zombies blockbuster like this fall’s Overlord the next. “It’s a pop- corn-and-soda movie that gets pretty twist- ed,” Russell giddily says about the secretive J.J. Abrams-produced hor- ror movie. “Like, very .” DAVID FEAR WYATT RUSSELL

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HOT SOUL POWER PHONY PPL A stylistically daring R&B/art-rock group emerges from a Crown Heights basement

“I WAS IN TROUBLE,” You Get a Boyfriend” to ⊲ singer Elbee Thrie “Think Your Mind,” which says, recalling the has the home-demo feel day that his R&B band, of early-Seventies Paul Mc- Phony Ppl, was born in Cartney. “Move Her Mind” 2008. It was Thrie’s 16th suggests birthday, and he’d been running a ses- grounded. So he invited sion; “Way Too Far” sounds some friends over from his like conspiring Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with . neighborhood. “We record- “People ask, ‘How did ed our irst song, made it you kick that McCartney up right there,” Thrie says. thing?’ ” Byas says. “We “Then the next song hap- knew that from when we pened, and the one after were young.” Aja’s parents that. We didn’t realize how named him after the 1977 diverse everything was. We Steely Dan LP. Thrie’s just embraced it.” father is a mixing engineer, For the next decade, and Byas’ dad, as Jazzy Jay, through varying lineups, was a pioneering hip-hop Phony Ppl gigged around DJ. Early on, Phony Ppl town, studied at New York music schools, and did sideman work with artists “We’d get high such as Theophilus London and jam for and Gene . The mad long.” group — now a solid bond of Thrie, guitarist Elijah —Aja Grant, Rawk, drummer Matthew on the band’s Byas, keyboard player Aja early studio Grant and his brother, bass- ist Bari Bass — also made sessions ive digital-only albums; 2015’s Yesterday’s Tomorrow rehearsed in Byas’ father’s was a Top 10 hit on iTunes’ basement studio. “We’d R&B chart. “All the time get high and jam for mad we’ve spent on music,” says long,” Grant recalls, until Rawk, “we could have been the senior Byas came down doing something else. You with some homework. don’t even realize how long “He’d say, ‘Everybody stop,’ it’s been after a while.” and put on Mandrill.” Phony Ppl — all age 26 Phony Ppl have begun except Bass, who is 27 — are touring in earnest, includ- ready for the world with ing recent gigs backing Kali mō’zā-ik, their irst physical Uchis. “When life put me release. The album is a in front of this band, I was commercially assured low on this clif — either I walk of progressive soul and back or I jump,” Thrie says. art-rock reach, from the se- “And I was not going to

STYLING DAVIS. BY RYAN RAWK: JEANS CONVERSE. BY 3 X 1. BY BASS: SHOES VEST BY KENZO, BY PANTS CONNECTION, FAITH JEFFREY CHARLES BY PANTS KENZO, BY SHOES AND SWEATER THRIE: LOVERBOY DOVER AT STREET MARKET. SHIRT BYAS: BY FAITH CONNEXION, PANTS BY ENFANTS RICHES DÉPRIMÉS. GRANT: JACKET BY OFF WHITE BARNEY’S AT NEW YORK, PANTS BY KSUBI. ductive hip-hop of “Before walk back.” DAVID FRICKE

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HOT CRACKPOTS HOT COTTAGE INDUSTRY Resistance Profiteers Some people look at #Resistance and see a movement confronting the authoritarianism of the Trump regime. QANON Others see a mass of easy marks. These resistance profiteers harnessed anti-Trump momentum to target progressives with more money than sense. TIM DICKINSON The latest in political quackery doesn’t just create an alternate reality using existing conspiracy theories — it ties them all together

WERE IT A government plot — a In one version of the story, Q is actually dazzling scheme to keep the public JFK, who faked his own death to join ⊲ stupid — QAnon would be a great Trump’s secret evil-crushing team. The achievement in the otherwise relatively un- covert cabal has supposedly arrested distinguished history of the CIA. Alas, it is Barack Obama, , John not. Like most things these days, if it seems Podesta and the corpse of John McCain, SCOTT PETER STRZOK AMY SISKIND like 4D , it’s probably just stupid. all of whom are said to be wearing ankle DWORKIN Strzok, a former FBI Siskind became a So it is with Q, the anonymous bracelets. Dworkin markets agent, is nobody’s Resistance darling executive-branch stafer who is said to be Someone is making great sport of this, himself as a Resis- victim. He brought by tweeting a leaking “breadcrumbs” across the bowels and whoever it is has a sense of humor, if tance leader, and discredit to the journal of Trump’s of the Internet, illuminating a vast subter- not a conscience. The gooball graphics of his Democratic FBI using his work creeping author- ranean efort to expose Donald Trump’s Q’s “drops” make for perfect Internet-age Coalition Against phone to talk shit itarianism, then performance art. The “crumbs” are dis- Trump has raised about candidate turning it into a nearly $388,000 Trump to his bestselling book, seminated mainly by meme and tweet, and from small-dollar mistress — while The List. But Siskind A Trump rally designed to travel on a spearlike trajectory donors. But the he was working the spent two decades in Pennsylvania straight into the brains of the modern Super PAC’s spend- Russia investigation. on Wall Street as a in August media consumer. The secret sauce is the ing is lining Dwor- After he was fired vulture capitalist, sheer quantity of connections. QAnon kin’s pockets: It paid for cause, Strzok a self- declared doesn’t just borrow from conspiracy $174,000 to his Bull- launched a GoFund- “pioneer in the dog Finance Group. Me page, where distressed-debt theories — it ties all of them together. And it’s disclosed he turned mutual trading market.” It would be hilarious were it less just one expendi- antipathy toward More mysterious believed. QAnon has already gobbled ture on behalf of a Trump into gold, still, Siskind touted the front line of not-smart right-wing Democrat: $2,350 raising more than Sarah Palin for 2012 celebrities, from Roseanne to future for Sen. Doug Jones $460,000 for his as “fresh, open- president Curt Schilling. in Alabama. personal stash. minded, a centrist.” Naturally, Trump himself QAnon has has already taken the step of gobbled the posing for a photo op with Q front line of movementists, which doesn’t enemies for everything necessarily mean he believes HOT BLUESMAN KINGFISH from pedophilia to killing not-smart it, but still portends some- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, 19, grew up in Clarksdale, Princess Diana to causing right-wing thing quite dark. Mississippi, 10 minutes away from the crossroads where Robert Hurricane Katrina. It’s a celebrities. Q videos at one point cited Johnson supposedly did business with Beelzebub. Ingram swears he thrilling fantasy that takes Trump’s real campaign-trail hasn’t done the same (“Nah, I didn’t do any of the rightist paranoia of The rhetoric promising to clean that,” he says with a laugh) — he took classes at the Delta Blues Museum instead. And Turner Diaries and mixes it with the gore out the “failed and corrupt political as his appearance on Netflix’s of Lincoln: Vampire Killer and the establishment” as the backdrop for the made clear, Ingram is the most exciting doomsday religiosity of Heaven’s Gate. movement, so QAnon believers may now young blues guitarist in years, with The QAnon legend assigns every ter- give him credit for fulilling real prom- a sound that encompasses B.B. rible thing in history to a blue-state plot. ises, through the secret-but- unrevealed King, and even Liberals killed JFK Jr. to make way for the arrests of key conspirators. Because Q Prince. After a jam session, personally paid Clintons, shot Reagan, murdered Seth Rich, says the prez is clandestinely battling a for Ingram to record his organized lots of kid-buggering operations combination of DARPA, Queen Elizabeth upcoming LP. “This is (Pizzagate was just the tip of the iceberg), II and Draco-reptilian liberals, his failure our culture, man,” says pulled of the Las Vegas massacre and to deliver on promises ending campaign- Ingram. “It’s part of allied themselves with an array of villains, inance corruption and taking on Goldman our history just as from to JonBenet Ramsey’s Sachs will be a little less obvious. If you’ve much as and rap. I want to show people killer. Into this mass of evil comes been wondering how election-year political there’s nothing wrong Donald Trump, a fat Christ sent down from rhetoric could get dumber than 2016’s, Q is with being young and liking right-winger heaven to clean the temples. a preview. MATT TAIBBI blues.” BRIAN HIATT

66 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: RICK LOOMIS/GETTY IMAGES; MSNBC; SHUTTERSTOCK; MELANIE ACEVEDO; CHRISTOPHE BERTOLIN/IP3/GETTY IMAGES; JAMES FRAHER/ REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES ⊲ DOLL BROTHELS Wildest Dreams Fulfilling Fans’ spray ofperfume.Every Onelasttouch:a back. her intopositionon and blackthong,puts top her inawhite tank dant washes her, dresses anatten- appointment, her irstjohn.Before her being prepped tomeet

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JONPAUL DOUGLASS; PUFFCO; GIO; DEVAMBEZ; LEVO HEJI SHIN ROBYN ⊲ HOT COMEBACK HOT lyrics orhersynth-sweetened hooks;itwas herway her essentialweirdness. Itwasn’t just herlovelorn —awomanincarnate infull,thrillingcommandof who’ve feminism cometo seeheras21st-century to whom she may is to come asasurprise those ofmyself.”some deeperunderstanding says, “Iwas getting bored Iwas lookingfor ofthat. and frustrationallthat.” Inrecent years, she of beingabletoexplore desperation andpassion challenges and getting ofonthatliberatedfeeling go modewhere intothis Iwas pushing through the self. “WhenIwaschallengedactual before, Iwould which herlegend haslived on,outofstep withher beloved 2010 four years sinceRobyn stopped touringforher from acave ofmystical it’s wonders. Infact, been creature emergingafteralong,restorative sleep ofwoodlandwith thesoothingtoneofsomesort of t artists pop made her on one inluential most My ofthe Own’ ‘Dancing like Hits

That Robyn could ever have hadaquestion as he 2010s, but before she had her to she heart own recalibrate could return vian way possible:quiet andmeasured and sa “SOMETIMES NECESSARY IT’S tonotfunction,” ys Robyn Scandina- inthemostfunctional, Body TalkBody trilogy, fourlongyears in a bonbonorwithplanetonherhead,thankyou of presenting themjustasshe pleased,dressed as have many Icould share thatwith.” she says. too strong is aword. “ ‘Lonely’ ButIdidn’t to be deinitely achallenge when you’re little ents’ experimental-theater troupe. “It’s childhood touringEurope withherpar- Stockholm in1979, she spent herearly own Robin innerfreak. Born Carlsson in much tokeep out forthesake ofher world’s expectations totake in,andhow been aquestion ofhow much ofthe however,London, hercareer haslong ing Taylor Swift tooknote. uptoandinclud- exalting andartists it, transcends popwhile alsosomehow streams —madeRobyn therare who star exceeds even its112millionSpotify Own” —whose cultural inluencelikely very much. Hitslike onMy “Dancing As Robyn explains from onacall exposed toalot ofdiferent environments,” again?” music about feel good I do to dowhat OK, Like, practical: ver “It became y rapturous responses to if anyone would agree.” Theydid,withincreasingly what popmusic could be.Ididn’t know, ofcourse, in alesspressured way,” “reimagining she began more control and“more timeto igure thingsout Åhlund andtheduoKnife.With more freedom, orators ofherchoosing:Swedish musician Klas under herown label,Konichiwa, andwithcollab- ties withJive Records andwalked away from pop. a breakdown inahotelroom inChicago, Robyn cut wanted herto betheSwedish BritneySpears.After she’dto writesongsabout anabortion had;they career, “how littlenuance wasallowed.” Shewanted was more thanaware ofthelimitshermajor-label Apollo andopeningfor TinaTurnerinSweden, she environment for me.” a badexperience atall,butitwasn’t anatural place role. “Iwas thevisitor,” she says. “Itwasn’t just oldermen” putheragaininafamiliar, out-of- “Show Me Love.” inastudiowith“mainly Being into theinternationalpopsensationbehind1996’s ing will(andtheskill ofsuperproducer MaxMartin) discovered atage 14 andturnedby force ofmarket- mative. Shelearnednotto have any plan. betransfor-dance samba.Shelearnedthatgriefcan do tofeelgood about music again?” Shelearnedto Like, OK, very practical: whatagain. Itbecame doI to gettrying backtoaplacewhere Ienjoyed things her music. “SometimesIfeltlike itwas justabout about ayear, she worked alone,onbothherselfand did psychoanalysis three orfourtimesaweek. For musictook classesondigital Andshe production. myselfand isolate alittlebit.” butjustgoit andnotightit, withitandshut down to explorein avery vulnerableplace.AndIdecided make music vein. inthis “Ihappened to indmyself of arelationship, she feltdisingenuous continuing to 2014, reeling from thedeathofafriendandend through” challenges insteadofaddressing them.By 2007 tion can happen.”tion can feelings that way. That’s, Iguess,where real connec- their feelings,andyou putwords can onyour own When she started makingmusicWhen she again,itwas started By thetimeateenage Robyn wasplaying the That perspective stuckwithherafter she was Eventually, she learned,again,to seeherself She traveled andNewYork toIbiza She andL.A. Success hasaway ofencouraging oneto“push , and thetriumphof you can hear someone else talk about you hearsomeoneelsetalk can giveues. “Itcan you spacewhere this that’s what music do,” can she contin- how to relate, impossibleitis “and draws toaclose.We allrelate to can more,” she says as our way ofhaving space tohearyourself human beings,butit’s alsomaybe a really is painfulfor of connection by “Lack contained theightagainstit. redemptive. There’s sadness, butit’s Honey, powerfully emotive —she says that of heartbreak —manic,deiantand her pastalbumshasbeentheeuphoria themeof the outsidein.Ifaunifying from theinsideout ratherthanfrom November 2018 2018 November ALEX MORRIS her new album, is softer, hernewalbum,is more Robyn, Body TalkBody released here in | Rolling Stone Stone Rolling . conversation |

69 ⊲ “That’s thegoal: Itguidesyou shift.” onaconsciousness Nance says oftheshow, which waspicked upforasecondseasonjust after itsAugust debut. material(interviews withtranspeopleofcolor).“It’sdocumentary gonna get uncomfortable,” of footage andcandid ofpolicebrutality; featuringblackstreet dancersandblackvictims poignant surrealism group (asustained hug amongyoung blackmen);separate montages “traditional satire” are “essentially bait”to leadviewers tomore challengingfare: dips into Have Bitch Better called My Money. ButNance,36, acknowledges that suchmomentsof ashedebutsanapp turtleneck madefortheprocurementJobs-style ofreparations payments, Terence Nance THE HOT LIST 2018 70 The ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ creator your to expand ofFlyness’ mind wants Acts The ‘Random HOT LATE-NIGHT GAME-CHANGER LATE-NIGHT HOT

able. At pointsitresembles sketch comedy: includesNance rocking Oneepisode aSteve TERENCE NANCE’S FANTASTIC series, late-night HBO 

PHOTOGRAPH BY Shanna Fisher Random ActsofFlyness, JONAH WEINER is unclassii- is ⊲ o ’sWith space-travel 22-year- First,’ the ‘The series looked thecity, andwe’d justchillandsmoke ajoint.” “a like, lotabout, going toviews. We usedto hike uphillsthat over- were HighSchoolfor theArts lessaboutclassand County at theL.A. her singlemom.(“Iwasvery notintoauthority,” she says.) Her years sion a“crazy kid” who tumultuous had a“pretty relationship” with says now. “I’d kindofjustblackout.” didn’t really remember what Iwasthinkingorhow Iwas feeling,” she heavy scenessonervous andunsure ofhow of, because I Icame party, “Iwould she’s couchedincalm. leave uttercalamity thereally maniaorshooting upat abackyardWhether spiralingintoartistic Heard onyour thecommotion.Congrats newjob!’ ” slipped underour doorfrom ourneighbors,andthey were like, ‘Hey! little drunk,” she says withalaugh. next “The morning,we got anote her birthday friends.“To inPalmSpringswithtwo Iwas a be honest, Penn over breakfast inBeverly Hills—Jacoby-Heron wascelebrating she’d gotten therole —following “a very chillconversation” with process was “thelongest I’ve ever had.” When she inally foundout able “intermsofdealingwithafatherwho’s absent.” Buttheaudition HERON JACOBY ANNA HOT SCENE-STEALER ld upstart launches her career into the stratosphere into the launches her career ld upstart She found the script for She foundthescript Growing upinSilver Lake, Jacoby-Heron wasby herown admis- AS SEANPENN’S wayward teenage daughter in Mars, AnnaJacoby-Heron hasaknackfor fuckinguponscreen. new Hulu seriesaboutateam of astronauts tovisit trying The First “fuckingincredible” —andrelat- ALEX MORRIS The First , the

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Max-o-matic , in which modern-day subjects re-enact their , inwhich re-enact modern-day subjects Three Identical Strangers Wild Wild Country LOGAN HILL Fahrenheit 11/9 OC , The Keepers , abouttripletsseparated , someare and O.J.: Madein empires, SAVIOR TREK’ HOT ‘STAR it so. than ever: Make hot). Now more his tea(EarlGrey, when he’s sipping a coolhead,even can trust.Hekeeps the captainyou cannon. Picard is also atotalloose tolerance. Buthe’s loyalty, hisTribble courage, his intensity, his of pluses—his T. Kirk,hasalot Shatner’s James hambone William tion rival,Sixties greatest Federa- in chief rent commander everything ourcur- other words, he’s on thewheel.In and asteadyhand Prime Directive With aneye onthe pable. Rational. Cerebral. Unflap- we needrightnow. Picard istheleader days because resonance these got real cultural forever, butit’s has dividedgeeks prise the greatest question ofwho’s that’s enough.The Luc Picard. And Jean- duty asCapt. into interstellar art, goingback stars PatrickStew- ries, except thatit next anything aboutthe We know barely PICARD JEANLUC commander Star Trek ROB SHEFFIELD isn’t . His Enter- se- ⊲

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HOT INCUBATOR ROCK CAMPS These schools of rock have taught thousands of young women. And with Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy breaking out, they’re starting to produce bona ide stars

Stone and Left: Lindsey Snail Mail’s Lindsey Lanthimos Jordan of Jordan, 19, started out Snail Mail at a now-defunct rock attended camp at age seven, Summer Girls becoming wildly com- HOT DIRECTOR Rock Camp in Tennessee, petitive with “boys who starting as a wrote me of because I YORGOS LANTHIMOS 10-year-old. was a girl.” She learned Below: A to shred through stuf Say you wanted to make a prestige film about student gets she hated — Dream political power plays in Queen Anne’s court. Who instruction Theater, Eric Johnson’s would you hire to direct it? Most people wouldn’t at Brooklyn’s answer, “The guy who made a movie about love- Willie Mae “Clifs of Dover” — to lorn folks turning into lobsters” — but thanks to rock camp. prove herself, an ex- Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite has become one ercise she rather of this fall’s most buzzed-about movies. Set in the regrets. 18th century and starring , Rachel Soccer Mommy’s Weisz and Broadchurch’s Olivia Colman, it’s full of backstabbing royalty, bizarre love triangles and Allison, 21, a duck race filmed in slow motion. And it’s about went to Summer to turn this 45-year-old Greek filmmaker into the Girls Rock Camp in most out-there to go from art house to Tennessee, starting A list since . “I wanted to make some- at age 10. “I loved thing that was not just another period drama, to it,” says Allison, combine history with modern elements,” he says. Lanthimos is known for his 2009 breakthrough who learned to family drama, Dogtooth — and for pushing Colin play drums and Farrell (The Lobster) and Nicole Kidman (The Kill- IF YOU BUILD to dozens of rock arrange songs. ing of a Sacred Deer) to uncharted WTF territory. it, they will, summer camps “My irst year, I Along the way, he earned a reputation and some ⊲ apparently, rock. across the country, was in bands with famous fans, including Stone (“I thought he was Even as guitar-based a lot of them aimed 17-year-olds.” going to be a psychopath,” she admitted). Given free rein to reinterpret the true story rock faded in the main- at girls — Tegan Jordan has one of love and war, Lanthimos was quick to hoist stream, an educational and Sara, Haim regret: “I wish I’d his freak flag. He cites a dance sequence, set at infrastructure teaching and many others known about Girls a costume ball, in which Weisz and Joe Alwyn kids how to play it has have raised money Rock Camp. I think break into moves that seem to combine Russian lourished. Options for the Girls Rock Camp producing actual rock that would have given and hip-hop. Lanthimos’ warped take range from the for-proit Foundation. stars: Two of 2018’s me a lot of conidence on the period-piece drama has already sparked a lot of Oscar talk. “I’ve developed a taste of my chain It probably shouldn’t hottest indie acts, Soccer and infrastructure to own,” he says, chuckling. “And maybe it is weird. (which existed prior to be surprising that all Mommy and Snail Mail, be a well-functioning But I think people secretly want weird.” DAVID FEAR the Jack Black movie) that schooling has begun are rock-camp veterans. adult.” BRIAN HIATT

HOT BEATS The Global Groove Exchange AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND THE U.S. HAVE been ca’s Popcaan, ’s and more. “The music ⊲ carrying on a musical conversation for ages: 1980s spreads really fast,” says João Brasil, a Brazilian rapper Miami bass music, for instance, helped spark the explo- and producer. “It’s much bigger than 10 years ago.” With sion of Atlanta trap and Brazilian baile in the early styles bolstering one another and blurring together, it’s 2000s. But lately, thanks to cheap recording technology an exciting moment for listeners around the world, even and the global reach of YouTube, those feedback loops if rigid U.S. industry conventions mean that you won’t are happening at warp speed. Baile funk is now converg- hear much of it on the radio. “The biggest shift that’s ing with South African house and the lithe Nigerian style happening now,” says Lisbon-based DJ Branko, “is that Afrobeats, while dancehall and have moved what for years was the dominant American pop-music

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73 Steve Perry Still Believes

The Journey frontman disappeared for 20 years — then heartbreak led him back to music By Andy Greene | Photograph by Erik Tanner

T’S A MONDAY AFTERNOON in August, and Steve Perry is cheerfully belting out the ’ “As Long As You Love Me.” Perry is visiting a buddy at his house in , and the singer — who grew up on , and , and doesn’t listen to much current pop — is giving an example of a rela- tively modern song that caught his ear. “I love songs like this,” he says of the tune, a Max IMartin-penned ballad from 1997. “I’m a guy.” ¶ It’s somewhat surprising to hear Perry, 69, sing a hit by a boy band a generation behind him. What’s really surprising, though, is that Perry is singing at all. Virtually nobody has seen him do this since he parted ways with his band, Journey, 20 years ago. Perry and Journey became famous in the Seventies and Eighties for big, soaring, arena-rock hits about - tion, passion and seizing the moment, some of them a little sappy indeed, all of them driven by Perry’s skyscrap- ing vocals, which exerted a massive inluence on generations of wasted karaoke warriors. In the process, Journey

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basically invented the power ballad. Critics often dis- fully tucked away money from his Journey days) and 1970s: These were the “streetlight people living just missed the band as cheeseballs, but that wasn’t fair; avoided the spotlight, rarely giving interviews and to find emotion” of the song’s lyrics. Perry has a songs like “Faithfully” and “Lights” stand up as beau- politely turning away fans who begged for a photo. diferent memory. “Jonathan and I scrawled out the tiful and plainspoken showcases for Perry’s remark- Basically, he became the J.D. Salinger of . lyrics about things that I had seen in Detroit one able voice. “We certainly were part of pioneering “I didn’t sing in those years,” he says. “I didn’t write night after a show, looking way down to the street [the power ballad],” Perry says. “I didn’t care what music. I must have gained 50 or 60 pounds. I got a and seeing the streetlights light the streets,” he says. the critics thought about the band. I really didn’t. butch haircut. I just said, ‘I’m going to just become a “I couldn’t see the lights, but could just see the glow All I knew is every night we would get at least one plump kid in again.’ I’d already lived of the lights facing down from about the 10th loor. I to two encores. That was my critical review for me the dream of dreams and didn’t know how I could see people walking around at two, three in the morn- every night.” come close to being anything like what I was before.” ing. I thought, ‘Wow, streetlight people. That’s so Perry left Journey in 1987, but he never had sus- Rumors about Perry began to pile up. “They say cool.’ ” (He and Cain do agree on one thing: There’s tained success as a solo artist. After the commercial I’m a recluse with long nails saving my urine in jars no such place as South Detroit. They just needed an failure of his second solo album, he got back together and living on an island with a morphine drip,” he extra syllable before “Detroit” and weren’t familiar with his former bandmates in the mid-Nineties. They says. “They think I’m in a hospital somewhere with with the city’s geography.) made a comeback album, scored a radio hit with the cancer. And they say I can’t sing anymore.” “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” hit Number Nine in 1981, romantic ballad “” and That last one stings the most, and as he sings the though by the turn of the millennium, it was just one earned a Grammy nomination. Irving Azoff, who Backstreet Boys song it’s clear it’s not true. Perry’s of Journey’s many hits, not even important enough to had just made the Eagles a fortune for their reunion voice is certainly deeper than in his Journey days, be mentioned by name in the band’s album, was brought in to manage the band. The when his upper register could rival any rock singer’s, episode. But the song had one very important fan. future looked bright. but it’s still unmistakably Steve Perry: rich, raspy, Today, Patty Jenkins is one of the hottest directors in Everything changed when Perry took a long hike expressive and overlowing with the sort of pulsating Hollywood, thanks to the Wonder Woman franchise. in Hawaii and felt a horrible pain in his hip as he emotion that caused even Journey’s iercest critics Back in 2003, though, she was just a ledgling ilm- reached the top of a mountain. He was to compare him to his idol, Sam Cooke. maker who needed the perfect song for a scene just in his mid-forties but discovered he Perry hasn’t lost his voice, but he in her low-budget movie Monster, about the life of had a degenerative bone condition that has lost a lot over the years: his grand- serial killer Aileen Wuornos. During a key scene early would require hip- replacement surgery. parents, who had helped raise him in in the ilm, Wuornos (played by ) Terriied at that prospect, Perry experi- rural Northern California after his mom roller-skates with her girlfriend. Jenkins igured that mented with alternative treatments that and dad split; both of his parents; and “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” would be the ideal song to did little to address the problem. his stepfather, who gave Perry work in punctuate the moment with a sense of unbridled Eventually, Perry’s bandmates started Rumors his construction business to help him optimism (before things went very, very bad, that is). getting restless. “They wanted me to about Perry make ends meet in the pre-Journey Jenkins had one big hurdle to getting “Don’t Stop make a decision on the surgery,” Perry began to days. “You want to know what I did Believin’ ” in her movie: persuading Perry to let her says. “But I didn’t feel it was a group after I left the band?” he says. “I visited use the song. “Everyone told us the worst things decision. Then I was told on the phone pile up. my mom’s grave a lot.” about Steve,” says Jenkins. “They said he had disap- that they needed to know when I was “They say Loneliness could creep in quickly. peared, said no to everything, would never say yes gonna do it ’cause they had checked out I’m a recluse “One time I parked my car in front of and was all about the money.” Still, she sent him a some new singers.” Perry begged them with long the house I was raised in,” Perry says. rough cut of the scene along with her phone number. to reconsider, but then postponed the “It was raining , the wipers Much to her shock, he called her and date of his big surgery. “I said to them, nails saving were going and I was facing the house raved about the clip. “He gave us the song for prac- ‘Do what you need to do, but don’t call my urine where I was raised, with my grandfa- tically nothing,” she says. “He just laughed at the ru- it Journey,’ ” he says. “If you fracture the in jars and ther’s house to the right. I just started mors [I had heard]. The truth was, he said no to ev- stone, I don’t know how I could come crying like a baby. I cried for the times erything because he didn’t want the money. People back to it.” living on an we could have had together. I cried for weren’t understanding the song, and he didn’t want They didn’t listen. Journey found a island with the times that I took for granted. And it to be sold out in that way.” Perry sound-alike named a morphine they were all gone, and here I am, an Monster became a surprise hit and won Theron a and launched a tour that continues to drip.” only child, just missing them all. I used Best Actress Oscar. It also helped kick of the amaz- this day. In 2008, — a Fil- to think that if I became a performer ing second life of “Don’t Stop Believin’.” All of a sud- ipino singer they found on YouTube — and everybody loved me, that I wouldn’t den, the song was everywhere: On TV (Glee used it took over on vocals, and the group began selling as have to go through these things. But guess what? six diferent times), on Broadway (it was the closing many tickets as it did in its Eighties heyday, quite There’s nowhere to run. If you’re alive, you have to number in the musical Rock of Ages), and even in the possibly thanks to Pineda’s uncanny ability to sound walk through this eventually.” clubhouse of the 2005 Chicago White Sox, who made more or less exactly like Perry, whom he grew up All of the loss may explain why the frontman who “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” their unoicial anthem on the worshipping. Understandably, Perry is a little uneasy radiated such passion in his Journey days no longer way to winning the World Series. The song’s renais- talking about all of this, but he’s never made any at- felt much like singing. There was another big loss to sance went into overdrive when used it tempt to reunite with his former mates. He showed come, but would lead him back to music, in the show’s last-ever scene, in 2007. up for Journey’s induction into the Hall and, eventually, to his new solo album, Traces. It’s There was something weirdly profound in the of Fame in 2017 and made an acceptance speech, a story about devotion, tragedy and a promise to a song’s sudden universal popularity: This slightly though he didn’t perform with the band. “What they dying loved one. It’s so intense and heartfelt, it could goofy Eighties anthem seemed to hit all of America in do is none of my business,” he says. “When I walked be a Journey song. an emotional sweet spot that went way beyond mere away from it, I did not go to any of the shows, nor did “ironic” nostalgia, wiping out cultural barriers in an I listen to any of it.” UCH OF WHAT happened to Perry in the avalanche of cheesy optimism. It’s no wonder peo- While his former bandmates were making mil- past decade can be traced back to his ple literally sang it in the streets the night of Barack lions on the road, Perry was doing, well, not all that most famous song. Perry wrote “Don’t Obama’s election. The tune Perry was happy to sell much. He rode around aimlessly on his motorcycle M Stop Believin’ ” with Journey keyboard- for next to nothing had become the new national an- and moved from the Bay Area to San Diego, though ist and guitarist in 1981. them. “It’s amazing to me,” says Perry. “All of my he routinely flew back for San Francisco Giants The title phrase came from Cain’s father, something songs are like children to me. Once you send them games. Perry lived of his royalties (he says he care- he’d say to encourage his son to keep going when he out to the world you hope they’re strong enough to was a young musician eking out an existence in L.A. survive . All of them got the same attention, Senior writer ANDY GREENE wrote about Mike Cain said he drew inspiration from characters but the world decides which ones become the ‘Don’t Campbell of the Heartbreakers in October. he knew in the Sunset Strip rock scene of the early Stop Believin’s,’ not me.”

76 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 me,” Perry says. “I never knew when someone did . I always had a reluctance to believe it. I think it comes out of my youth when my parents split up, but something inside me always had doubts. “But let me tell you how I know. When you’re in love with someone like Kellie Nash and she looks you right in the eyes and says, ‘I love you.’ That’s how you know. She made me the luckiest man in the world.” What Perry really wants to talk about — the reason he’s willing to sit down and revisit these parts of his life — is Traces. It’s the result of five years of work (though there was an extended break in the middle for another hip-replacement surgery). He cut it at his home studio without any paying the bills or making him sweat out a deadline. The songs, many of them ballads, relect on love, loss and the diicult moments in between. Some are directly about Nash, like “October in New York,” where he looks back at their inal weeks together, while others are character-driven. The sound is a little more subdued than classic Journey: elegant, tasteful, soul- fully autumnal. (Backstreet Boys aside, he avoids modern pop and has a partic- ular aversion to drum machines; when a Top 40 station comes on one day over lunch, he insists on bolting from the Streetlight just would all die at that mo- restaurant to talk outside.) People ment. I would just go back to Perry’s collaborators were delighted to ind out Above: Journey in 1979 my safe life. Instead, I said, he still had his voice. “When I irst heard his demos, (Schon, Steve Smith, ‘Send the e-mail.’ ” I was like, ‘Wow, there’s !’ ” says guitarist Perry, and It placed him in a vulner- Thom Flowers, a co-producer on the album. “But , from left). “I didn’t care what the able position. “I didn’t want then in the studio, I got to see it myself. He likes to critics thought about to go through another loss,” record in the control room, so we’d both put head- the band,” Perry says. he says. “I was trying to con- phones on and he’d be two feet away from me. With- “All I knew is every night tinue moving through life on out any warm-up, it just came out of him. It reminded we would get at least my own. But there was a sim- me of watching a thoroughbred horse work.” one to two encores.” Right: Perry with Nash ple gorgeousness about her Perry almost couldn’t believe it himself when in 2011. “She made me that was just stunning.” work on the album wrapped. “I told some friends the luckiest man in the They met up at a restau- of mine that I actually did something I said I’d never world,” Perry says. rant near Nash’s house and do again,” he says. “I made that commitment to talked for six hours. Before Kellie and then a commitment to myself to actually For Perry, the song’s rebirth was important in long, they were living together. For a few months, it complete it.” another way. He and Jenkins became friends while was bliss. “Then one horrible day she said she was “I always hoped that he would do this one day,” she was working on Monster, and with plenty of spare having headaches,” Perry says. “We got an MRI, and says Jenkins. “All along he’d been playing me these time on his hands in the following years, Perry liked then later the oncologist called the house and said stunning tracks. I was always like, ‘Steve! What the to lounge around the director’s editing suite and she had brain metastases. She fell apart right there hell? That’s a masterpiece!’ Hearing him give this to watch her work. One day in 2011, she was editing a in front of me, screaming and crying. It was the most the world again is so moving.” Lifetime movie about breast-cancer patients when diicult day because she just melted in my Perry saw a face on the screen that caught his eye. arms in fear.” ERRY MAY BE willing to sit down for a series It was Kellie Nash, a Los Angeles psychologist. She Perry and Nash moved to New York so she could of extensive interviews, but there’s still was two decades Perry’s junior, and she was battling have access to an experimental treatment in the an aura of mystery surrounding him. For breast cancer. “I went, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, can you Bronx. His favorite time of day came in the evening, P example, his buddy Steve, whose home spool back to . . . stop right there. . . . Who’s that?’ ” when he held Nash as she tried to fall asleep. One Perry is visiting. Steve — tall, kind, bald — lives in Perry remembers. “Her smile killed me. I felt like evening, she turned toward him with something very Mill Valley, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in I knew her somehow, and I never met her before.” serious on her mind. “She said, ‘If something ever the Bay Area. After answering the door, he ofers Perry asked for her e-mail address, but Jenkins happens to me, I want you to make one promise,’ ” us cofee. There are photos on the wall of this Steve said he should understand her condition before he recalls. “ ‘Promise me you won’t go back into iso- fellow with the pope. “He’s just a friend of mine,” reaching out. Nash’s cancer had spread to her lungs lation. If you do, I fear this would all be for naught.’ ” says Perry, refusing to say anything about him. “An and her bones. There was no exact timetable for She urged him to make music again. old friend of mine. Keep him anonymous.” how long she had left, but the prognosis was grim. Nash died on December 14th, 2012. “Ever since I Perry says he’s had a number of serious relation- “At that moment I had the opportunity to send no was a kid, and especially since I became successful ships in his life, but besides Nash and his 1980s girl-

FROM TOP: MICHAEL PUTLAND/GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY OF STEVE PERRY e-mail, pull back, no harm, no foul,” he says. “It in the , I just wanted people to love friend Sherrie Swafford (immortal- [Cont. on 96]

November 2018 | Rolling Stone | 77 CLOSEUP Queen of Pain

Claire Foy, Emmy-winning wife, Janet. It could’ve been a token stand- by-your-spaceman role. But instead it’s star of ‘The Crown,’ Foy’s Janet who brings the film back to digs deep to play inner Earth, making the action in the Armstrong kitchen — where she and Neil (Ryan Gos- turmoil like no one else ling) are not famous igures but parents BY SARA VILKOMERSON struggling with the unspeakable grief of losing a child — every bit as intense as the HERE’S THIS THING about dizzying spectacle of space travel. Foy, Claire Foy’s face: It is con- who is already garnering Oscar buzz, stantly changing, highs and spent hours listening to audio of Janet lows passing over it like a (who passed away in June) and worked fast-moving storm. With a with two dialogue coaches to latten her wordlessT glance she projects, instantly, English accent into an appropriate Mid- the emotional temperature of the charac- western twang. Chazelle says that with ter she is playing. It’s a quality that makes every take, Foy would astound. “We’d in- Foy, 34, one of the most compelling ac- ish and I’d be so into it I’d be breathless. tresses of her generation. Perhaps it can My cinematographer would have tears in be traced back to childhood: At 13 years his eyes. Claire would just snap back into old, Foy, who was born in Stockport, Eng- her British accent and go, ‘Oh no, that was land, and raised in Buckinghamshire, was rubbish, I apologize.’ ” alicted with juvenile arthritis. At age 17, Now, Foy shape-shifts into the drag- doctors discovered a benign tumor be- on-tattooed vigilante hind her eye. “From a very young age I for The Girl in the Spider’s had the experience of your body failing Web (out November 9th). FOY RULES you in some way,” she says. “It’s haunt- She leaped at the chance “I don’t want an easy time ed me my entire life, but at the same time to take on a more physi- when I’m it’s a blessing because you learn to be glad cal role (“I kneed a lot of acting,” Foy to be alive. Pain gives you an awful lot of bollocks”) and to revel in has said. understanding of what people are going Lisbeth’s antisocial behav- through all the time.” ior. “She’s deeply lawed,” says Foy. “She Foy has a high, tinkly laugh that she works outside the way society believes deploys often over tea in Manhattan in she should: She’ll have sex with whom- early October. The other patrons are pre- ever and whenever she wants.” It’s a far tending not to notice the celebrity in their cry from Buckingham Palace. “For me, midst. Or, more likely, they haven’t con- it’s playing the queen of England that’s the nected that this leather-pants-clad gamine huge stretch,” says Foy. “I veer much more — who cheerfully says things like, “You toward the Lisbeth end of the spectrum.” don’t want to make a massive tit of your- But when it comes to her personal self!” — is the same stoic Queen Elizabeth life, Foy is iercely guarded. As talk brief- she portrayed on the Netflix series The ly turns to her three-and-a-half-year-old Crown. It was her Emmy-winning work daughter (with the actor Stephen Moore on that show that caught director Damien Campbell, from whom Foy separated ear- Chazelle’s eye while he was casting the lier this year), she politely shuts it down. Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. “She has She’s happier to discuss what’s next. “I that thing,” says Chazelle. want to shock myself and everyone else at “She’s a true chameleon.” the same time. Maybe I’ll just keep doing In First Man, which examines Arm- more and more mental parts,” she says, strong’s life during the race to put a man smiling at the idea. “And people will start on the moon, Foy plays the astronaut’s to go, ‘What’s wrong with her?’ ”

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Why Can’t Allyson The U.S. economy is growing, but for Get workers, it’s longer hours, lower pay and almost no Ahead? security. What LLYSON COSTELLO STARED at the two lines on her happened pregnancy test and knew — immediately and beyond a shadow of a doubt — that she would get an abortion. to the A She was 21 years old. She was on the pill, taking it re- American ligiously every morning. And it had been only a few months since she’d received a Facebook message from Andy, the irst boyfriend dream? she’d ever had, back in middle school, but now virtually a strang- er. She learned that he was currently living way out in the country somewhere in Kentucky, that it was beautiful there, but also lonely. By Alex Morris She had just gone through a breakup herself and could relate to the Photographs by loneliness. They started writing, then they started talking. Eventu- ROSE MARIE CROMWELL ally, he asked if she would ly up from Florida to visit. ¶ At the time, Allyson wasn’t looking to change her life. She had an associate’s de- gree and was working on her bachelor’s. She and a roommate rent- ed a small but well-kept apartment in downtown Orlando, walking distance to Allyson’s school and her job at and any num- ber of places to meet up with friends. ¶ They’d bought nice furni- ture; they’d outitted the kitchen. “It was so desirable,” she tells me.

Rolling Stone | 80 | November 2018 Allyson Costello with her son, Atlas

March 2018 | Rolling Stone | 81 Struggling in America

“Anybody would have wanted to live there.” At Star- try began its recovery from the Great Recession. But mean, food is actually not that much more. It’s rent. bucks, Allyson made around $9 an hour, plus her at the household level, and it’s a far more It’s real estate. It’s day care. It’s education.” In other share of the tip jar. It wasn’t a fortune, but it was complicated, and often bleaker, picture. In the Feder- words, it’s the quality-of-life markers that deine our more than minimum wage, and with only herself to al Reserve’s most recent annual Survey of Household conception of what it means to be in the middle class. take care of, she could make it stretch pretty far. She Economics and Decision-making (SHED), more than Or, at least, what it meant to be middle class for the even had savings, a small cushion to fall back on. She one-ifth of adults are behind on their bills, more bulk of the 20th century when, for a unique moment was proud of her grown-up way of life. than one-fourth skipped necessary medical care in in history, income gaps narrowed and the middle With her blue-collar background, she says, she’d 2017 because they were unable to pay for it, and four class as we know it was born. “Middle class has gone long aspired to something more than the lifestyle out of 10 responded that if they needed to come up from being a stable category that was almost too sta- provided by her mother’s bartending job and her fa- with $400 unexpectedly, they would only be able to ble, like a prison that people once tried to escape in ther’s job in construction. “I didn’t want to live pay- do so by selling something or borrowing the money. the Sixties, to something that people can’t even get in check to paycheck and struggling,” she explains. “I Which means that millions of American families are to,” says Quart. “You have the man in the gray lannel wanted something better than that.” And she thought only one unexpected event away from inancial ca- suit and all these mythos around the commuter train she knew how to get it. “I knew nothing would be tastrophe. One blown transmission. One broken leg. and the humdrum stable life of two cars and a house given to me. I mean, when you come from a fami- One positive pregnancy test. and a pension. And now you’d be lucky to have any ly that doesn’t have a whole lot of money and every- Allyson’s particular catastrophe rolled out in stag- of those. You’d be lucky to be humdrum.” one you know comes from families who don’t have a es. After moving to Kentucky, she continued her ed- Yet it has stuck with us, this humdrum idea of lot of money and the area you live in is people who ucation with online classes from the University of what could or should be possible. A 2017 study don’t have a lot of money, pretty much the only way Central Florida and had gotten Starbucks to transfer by Northwestern Mutual found that 70 percent of you’re going to get out of that is if you get an educa- her job to a local shop, but she was making less there Americans consider themselves to be middle class, tion,” she says. She’d taken AP classes in high school than she had been in Orlando. As her due date ap- though only 50 percent actually are. According to and often held down two jobs — the one at Starbucks proached and she looked into the cost of the two day the Pew Research Center, which deines the Amer- and another at a day care center — as she worked her cares in the where she worked, she real- ican middle class as those earning two-thirds to way through college, studying early-childhood edu- ized how little sense it would make to pay that price. twice the median household income (or between cation and pediatric nutrition. She loved kids, but “I had stressed a lot that I wanted to keep working, about $52,200 and $156,500 for a family of four in having one so young had not been part of the plan. even after the baby was born,” she says. “When we 2016), the number of people in that group has been Yet there she was, in a bathroom in Andy’s house, irst decided, ‘OK, we’re gonna do this,’ I was like, ‘I consistently on the decline since the Eighties. In- staring at those two stark lines. It had been only a still want my independence, I want my own money.’ creasingly, people ind themselves in the working couple of months since that irst visit to Kentucky, But as time went on, we decided that it just wasn’t class or, more speciically, a member of the work- when he’d wooed her with mountain views and din- worth it with child care costs.” Andy made $12-$13 an ing poor — those living in poverty even though they ners out, and she had agreed to start dating him hour working full-time in the book-printing depart- are working. Meanwhile, our government’s idea of again. “I buried the pregnancy test under all the ment of , while Allyson made about $8.50 what constitutes poverty — $25,100 a year for a fam- trash, freaked out, lost my mind for a bit in the bath- an hour working 25 to a week. Between the of four — is calculated using an outdated model room, and then gathered myself up,” she says. After two of them, they earned too much money to qualify that was developed in the Sixties (before having a telling Andy that they were expecting, “I straight for subsidized child care, which meant that almost all cellphone, for instance, was necessary for gaining up was like, ‘I’m going to get an abortion. You gotta of Allyson’s income would have gone toward paying employment). However you do the math, none of be cool with that. That’s gonna happen no matter someone else to be with her child. “When we did the those middle-class markers — owning a home, hav- what.’ ” The only two clinics in Kentucky that per- math, I would have been taking home $50 a week, or ing good medical care, sending your kids to college formed abortions had waitlists so long Allyson wasn’t something ridiculous.” — are as attainable as they once were, which, accord- sure she would make the cutoff, but she found a But the decision to stay home was financially ing to Quart, explains why so many who aspire to the Planned Parenthood in Ohio that would take her in fraught, too. According to Lily Batchelder, the Obama middle class are “living really unstable lives” while four weeks. By then, “He went from ‘I totally sup- administration’s deputy director of the White House being “often only one generation away from a work- port your decision’ to ‘Well, we’ve got time, let’s National Economic Council, “Child care is a huge ing-class parent that was more stable than they are.” just talk some options’ to ‘Hey, we would be a real- reason why people fall into poverty.” The latest Pew The numbers make it easy to see why. In 1960, the ly great family, and we’re going to raise him this way Research Center analysis of such annual average health care costs and have a white picket fence and always love each trends found that, after decades of in America were just $146 per per- other, and it’s going to be great.’ ” decline, the proportion of stay-at- son; in 2016, that igure had risen And it worked: Allyson eventually came around home mothers rose from 23 per- to $10,348. Over the past few dec- to the idea of having a child. “Part of the reason why cent in 1999 to 29 percent in 2012. ades, the cost of attending a four- is that Andy and I talked and were like, ‘Well, we’re More pointedly, a growing share “I thought year public college has risen more doing so much better than most people our age. We (six percent in 2012 versus one than 200 percent, which helps ex- have savings. We own our house. We have two cars, percent in 2000) reported they you went to plain why Americans now have we have college degrees. We live a good life.’ So it re- were not home voluntarily, but school, you $1.4 trillion of student-loan debt. ally did, at the time, seem like we had everything rather because they could not ind The median home value also rose that we needed to be prepared and inancially sta- a job, or at least one that could got a job, and dramatically, from around $3,000 ble.” Plus, Allyson wanted to be a mom. She thought cover child care. Thirty-four per- in 1940 (or around $30,000 in in- she’d make a good one. She had no way of knowing cent of stay-at-home mothers (ver- there you are flation-adjusted terms) to more that from that exact moment, she’d begun her slow sus 12 percent of working ones) — you built than $200,000 today. And for and steady descent into abject poverty. are living in poverty. That’s more those who can’t afford to own, than double the number who a life,” says renting is problematic as well: A were living in poverty in 1970. Allyson. “But 2017 report by the National Low In fact, according to Alissa Income Housing Coalition deter- Take a long view of the American economy right Quart, author of Squeezed: Why that’s not mined that there is now literally now, and it appears to be doing . Unem- Our Families Can’t Aford America, how it works nowhere in America where a min- ployment is down, and household incomes are up child care is one of a handful of imum-wage worker can aford to — trends that have been mostly trucking along since factors that, taken together, have at all. I was rent a two-bedroom apartment. the early days of Obama’s presidency when the coun- made middle-class life roughly losing money Meanwhile, as costs have risen, 30 percent more expensive than the relative amount of money that Contributing editor ALEX MORRIS wrote the cover it used to be. “It has nothing to by working.” many American workers earn has story about Camila Cabello in June. do with inlation,” Quart says. “I gone down. From the early Seven-

82 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 COMING UP SHORT Thirty-four percent of stay-at-home moms are living in poverty, more than double the number in 1970. “I wear shoes with holes in them, I’ve sold my dead grandmother’s jewelry, I’ve donated plasma,” says Allyson. “I’ve gone without deodorant for a week, without tampons. When you have no income, those things become expensive.”

ties until 2017, productivity (the amount of goods and er, work longer hours, spend more time in the job As for women, it’s not as if they all entered the job services created in an hour of work) has grown by al- market, send more people to work in order to keep force from lives of leisure, and it’s not as if the work most 77 percent, but the inlation-adjusted amount from falling behind.” At least there are more people they did before disappeared. Since two incomes are workers are paid for that productivity has only grown to send: It is a cruel twist of fate that the Civil Rights now basically required for attaining a middle-class by about 12 percent (by way of comparison, from the Act of 1964 opened employment avenues to minori- way of life, as Columbia University historian Alice Kes- late 1940s to the early 1970s, compensation rose by ties and women less than a decade before the solid, sler-Harris explains in Women Have Always Worked, about 90 percent). Increased productivity expands middle-class jobs they could inally attain started to women are working outside the home while still the economy, driving certain prices up, which means become less solid and middle class. Those new work- doing 2.6 times more unpaid care and domestic work that the cost of living has been rising faster than in- ers helped expand productivity but brought home than men, according to a 2018 report from the United comes for more than 40 years. “That’s kind of all you less pay — as, of course, they still do — than their Nations. The amount of unpaid care work has been need to know,” says Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow white, male counterparts. “Comparing factors such estimated to be worth about $3 trillion annually. at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “It’s not as incomes, the black middle class was always weak- Without it, America’s economy would grind to a halt. so much that people are worse of as much as that er than the white middle class,” says economist Ste- they haven’t kept up.” ven Pitts, associate chair at the UC Berkeley Labor Though certainly, they’ve tried. Much of the (pal- Center. “A newly hired black worker would proba- try) growth in household income over the past 40 bly say, ‘Yes, my job at U.S. Steel pays more than my Allyson’s son, Atlas, was born in 2015, on an early- years has occurred because — often out of necessity sharecropping job did, but because I’m black, I’m October afternoon that she describes as “literally per- — people are simply working more. What Bernstein stuck in a job that’s shitty as hell and can’t advance fect, sweater weather, when the grass is green and has seen is that “families have had to work hard- to a better one.’ ” long and there’s sunlowers everywhere. I thought he

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was literally the most beautiful newborn I’d ever seen in my entire life.” He was a happy baby, and Allyson took to new motherhood with an ease that surprised her. While she was expecting, she’d connected with some friends on Facebook to bond over the diicul- ties of pregnancy, but after Atlas was born, “we kind of grew apart because they were going through a lot of things that I wasn’t. I didn’t have anything to con- tribute to those conversations. It was just so easy.” What was becoming less easy, however, was her relationship with Andy. He worked nights and slept during the day, so she’d roam around the big, old house with only a newborn as company. “It was so lonely,” she says. “Honestly, we just weren’t compat- ible. I was unhappy, and he just wouldn’t talk about it at all.” Not working, she was also steadily making her way through the $9,000 she’d had from her Star- bucks savings and from selling her furniture when she moved to Kentucky. By the time she and Andy called it quits and she bought a one-way ticket back to Florida, she was down to basically nothing. “I had a 10-month-old, one suitcase worth of stuff, $70, two packs of diapers and a week’s worth of wipes.” Though she’d been helping pay the property taxes, the house belonged to Andy, purchased a few years back with money from a scooter-accident settlement (the type of “lucky break” that may now be some- one’s best chance at financial gain). be- longed to him too. He had ofered to go with her to the child-support oice in Kentucky, but the breakup was contentious enough that Allyson just wanted to get away. She igured it could all get sorted out later, not realizing how much harder the process would be once she crossed state lines. (Andy declined to com- ment for this article.) Back in Orlando, she moved in with a friend of a THE BENEFIT GAP friend who had a spare room she could rent for al- “I was working most nothing, applied for child support, and found 15 hours a week that she qualiied for the maximum amount of as- at minimum wage, sistance that Florida allowed (about $350 a month), and they cut my which she igured would tide her over until she could benefits,” says Allyson, who secure subsidized child care and ind a job. When she moved back in went to apply for that subsidized child care, howev- with her mother in er, she learned that before you could even qualify, Florida (left). Her the state required two consecutive pay stubs to prove work at Starbucks meant she made you worked at least 20 hours a week. Which meant too much money that in order to work, she needed child care, but in for adequate help order to get child care, she needed to work. Essential- from social ly, she was screwed. services but not enough to pay the So are many others. “As much as we talk about bills. “How does motherhood and fatherhood and apple pie and all that even make that stuf, it’s just a system that is so rigged against sense?” she asks. parents and the values that we hold as a country that the adults be self-supporting, that the children be given the best early beginnings,” says Ellen Galinsky, lyson approached Starbucks about picking up some 20 hours a week or more, tuition assistance, fertil- president and co-founder of the Families and Work evening shifts and was hired again. But with her child ity services, paying more than the minimum wage Institute. “In a sense, your ZIP code is destiny. And care constraints and the limited shifts they could give — suddenly paled in comparison to how little every each state, depending on its economic health and the her (“Two of the girls I most often worked with also hour’s worth of work actually got her: 50 cents more values of its governing bodies, supports child care to had kids and could only work evenings on very spe- than minimum wage when she’d started and a raise a greater or lesser degree. I could live literally across ciic days,” she says), it was clear that she would not of 21 cents an hour every year after that. Even work- the block from someone in a diferent state and have be able to work the 20 hours a week needed to get ing full-time, she would have been making “noth- a completely diferent system” — a bureaucratic mo- the child care subsidy. ing close to a living wage,” she says. And yet she kept rass that owes its complexity in part to the conlicting Allyson had been precariously employed before, returning to Starbucks for a reason: was societal belief that, as Galinsky puts it, “we should with no set schedule and no guaranteed number of widely considered a generous employer. make people who take welfare work, but good moth- hours per week. But she’d never been so underem- In fact, minimum wage has fallen so woefully ers will be at home.” ployed, working far less than she wanted or needed behind the cost of living that more than 12 million Desperately, Allyson tried to igure out how to do to be, and she’d never before had a dependent. The American workers now also rely on public assistance both. When her stepmother agreed to watch Atlas in much-publicized beneits Starbucks ofered — health to make ends meet — a state of afairs that Bernie the evenings after she got home from her own job, Al- insurance for employees who work an average of Sanders has publicly decried as a way in which tax-

84 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 payer dollars subsidize rich corporations. “Minimum outlawed until 1982 because it was believed to be a 84 percent of the country’s stocks — and this includes wage is now more than 25 percent below what it was form of market manipulation. Based on tallies of the all stocks in retirement accounts. in 1968, so that is pretty dramatically sick,” says Law- irst three quarters, J.P. Morgan projects that S&P 500 Unfortunately, the government has not only en- rence Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the Economic companies will spend $800 billion on buybacks in abled these changes, they’ve also enshrined them in Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank. And the min- 2018 — the highest number on record. policy. In addition to a miserly minimum wage, there imum wage sets the parameters for so many hourly Such transformations of the way business is done are weaker unemployment beneits, more draconi- jobs, meaning that a large portion of the country’s have spawned the gig economy (gig workers might an rules about overtime, and a deterioration in labor take-home pay is being depressed far below a rea- need a safety net, but aren’t legally entitled to one), standards like sick leave or family leave. And many sonable cost of living. “The deining characteristic undercut unions (11 percent of private workers were welfare beneits are contingent on working a certain of the last four decades has been wage stagnation, unionized in 2017 compared with 20 percent in 1983, number of hours, as if this were under an employ- but I would call it wage suppression,” adds Mishel. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), and led ee’s control — meaning that people, like Allyson, who “The fact that most people didn’t see much of a rise to the development of algorithms that can adjust are underemployed are also at risk of losing whatev- of their wages and beneits is not because the money workers’ hours in real time based on volume of busi- er governmental help they may be receiving. “At this wasn’t there because the economy was somehow in ness (great for a company that doesn’t want to pay point, it’s kind of hard to deny that American politi- trouble. There was lots of income and wealth pro- people when there’s a lag in customers, but disas- cal elites, and particularly Republican political elites, duced. It didn’t get to most people. Then, you have trous for workers like Allyson who need to plan for basically don’t believe there is any problem that can’t to ask the question ‘Why didn’t it?’ ” child care). When American Airlines announced in be addressed by cutting taxes and telling people that Standard operating procedure is to point to auto- 2017 that it was raising its wages, its share price plum- they should take more responsibility,” says Hacker. mation, globalization and the inevitable, immutable meted — rather than see this as a sign of the compa- Yet when Allyson took responsibility and called so- changes of time as certain industries die out and are ny’s health, the market saw it as a liability. cial services to tell them that she’d found work, she replaced by others. “But we’ve had automation for And in this American market, it is. As Jacob Hack- learned exactly what working would mean: She had many, many decades,” says Mishel, “and for many er, Yale political scientist and author of The Great Risk landed in the beneit gap, where the social services of those decades we saw falling inequality, we saw Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of lost by having a job are not suiciently met by wages. rising wages for middle-class workers. Globalization the American Dream, explains, “The transfer of risk “They told me immediately that I lost my Medicaid” may have something to do with this, but it’s not so and responsibility from the broad shoulders of gov- — a bureaucratic error, actually, that took her months clear to me that globalization and the way we did it ernment and corporations onto backs of to igure out. “And they also cut my food stamps from was ordained by any deity.” Certainly, the shift from American workers and their families” has been one $357 to $172 or something like that,” Allyson says. a manufacturing to a service economy has had an ef- of the deining factors of the past few generations. “Which was really signiicant. I was shocked. ‘But fect, since service work — scrubbing toilets, lipping Job security is a thing of the past. Between 2003 and what do you mean? I just started. I’m working, like, burgers, running day cares rather than doing some- 2013, the cost of employer-provided health insurance 15 hours a week at basically minimum wage. How thing that produces a tangible product — is somehow rose by 73 percent, 93 percent of which was passed does that even make sense?’ And they were just like, viewed as “lesser” and therefore commands a lower on to workers, even as deductibles more than dou- ‘I don’t know what to tell you. After taxes, you should rate. But all of these explanations would make more bled. And rather than a guaranteed pension, work- be making $503 a month.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah? sense if the economy overall were sufering. It isn’t. ers are now ofered a riskier 401(k) that draws from And?’ ” It was the irst time Allyson realized how lit- Only its workers are. their wages. Which means that even families who tle she’d really have to live on. “I was crushed,” she And that’s happened, not because of economic are doing OK feel like they aren’t. “The poor are, of says. Between that, bus fare to and from work, and forces beyond our control, but rather because gov- course, the most disadvantaged,” says Hacker. “But the cost of prescription medicine she needed, “I was ernment and corporate choices have been made that the real transformation is the degree to which the actually losing money at that point by working. It just prioritize the wealth of a few people over the wel- constraints and risks that were once faced only by was not . . . sustainable at all.” fare of the many. The perverse incentives of tying ex- the working poor are being faced by people with ecutive pay to the price of stock have transformed once-thought solidly middle-class incomes.” the American worker from a stakeholder into mere- In fact, as economists Jonathan Murdoch and Ra- ly an expenditure, from someone whose cultivation chel Schneider point out in The Financial Diaries, “Where’s your nose?” asks Allyson. “Where’s your and training beneit the company into a mere line “The instability of families’ incomes has risen fast- chin? Your knees? No, no, those are toes. Toes are item for the next quarter. “Some- er than the inequality of families’ cool too, but they’re not knees.” It’s bath time for thing like 80 percent of officers incomes.” Almost 60 percent of Atlas, who is chubby and and now almost admit that they would forgo an in- American workers are now hourly two — an age at which it is very hard to understand vestment in their company that rather than salaried. And, in 2015, why one cannot eat pink foam soap. “Don’t eat it! If has long-term beneits if it meant the Pew Charitable Trust found you eat it, bath time is over,” warns Allyson as Atlas missing that quarter’s earnings,” “Minimum that almost 50 percent of house- smears the soap all through his blond curls and gig- says Rick Wartzman, author of The holds saw their income rise or gles uncontrollably. End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of wage is now fall by 25 percent or more from Allyson laughs too. She’s into attachment parent- Good Jobs in America. “It’s disturb- 25 percent one year to the next. These ups ing (“all the peer-reviewed, high-quality research ing stuf. And the efects are just and downs could be if says that it just creates better people”) and approach- profound.” below what it Americans weren’t already living es motherhood with admirable patience and humor. In the 1970s, S&P 500 compa- so close to the bone — squeezed It’s a sweet, homey scene — a mother bathing her nies typically used half of their was in 1968,” by factors such as the high cost child, getting him ready for bed — but the small room profits to pay shareholders and says one of child care and their own low where Allyson and Atlas will be living is bare of furni- the other half to reinvest in the wages — but as Schneider says, ture, apart from ’n Play where Atlas sleeps. company, through research and economist. “Volatility requires a cushion, A few suitcases and plastic hampers scattered about development or worker compen- “The defining [and] so many people don’t have a contain the bulk of her possessions. After months of sation and training. “Over the cushion because they really need crashing with a friend, tonight is the irst night she past 10 years,” Wartzman con- characteristic their full income just to cover will spend in her mother’s small St. Petersburg apart- tinues, “94 percent of proits for of the past the basic cost of living.” In fact, ment since oicially moving in. the S&P 500 have gone to bene- in 2017, 39 percent of Americans Back in Orlando, she hadn’t been making enough fit shareholders,” either direct- four decades had less than $1,000 saved, which at Starbucks to cover both her health care costs and ly or through stock buybacks, in is wage means that gains in the market her reduced welfare beneits, so it soon became clear which companies use their prof- are largely not going to the mid- that she would need to put $200 to $300 on cred- its to buy their own stock, driving suppression.” dle class. Put more starkly: The it cards every month just to get by, while the stu- up its value — a practice that was top 10 percent of households own dent loans she couldn’t pay ballooned [Cont. on 96]

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Music A DEEPER SHADE OF WHITE A deluxe edition of the White Album dives into the Beatles’ fraying late-Sixties drama By DAVID FRICKE

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N LATE May 1968, the Beatles convened at gui- I tarist ’s English country home with an extraordinary body of raw materials for their next album. The so-called Esher demos — 27 songs taped on Harrison’s four-track machine — were at once stark and full, solo acoustic blueprints already outitted with signature lourishes: double-tracked vocals; ’s raindrop-arpeggio guitar in “”; the future guitar solo in “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” hummed by Paul McCartney. There was evidence too of tension and estrangement: Lennon’s jagged rhythms

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THE BEATLES THE NEW KIDS OF and aggressive cynicism (“Revolution,” “Yer Blues”); McCartney’s determined optimism Two promising young bands revel in the (“Blackbird”) and almost mutinous cheer reliable power of Seventies riffs By WILL HERMES (“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”). In his Appala- chian-ballad draft of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” Harrison pointedly censured his HESE two young were roughly kindergarten “young and pretty” with bandmates, singing, “The problems you sow bands are doing some- age when School of Rock “ain’t that a pity,” and “An- are the troubles you’re reaping.” He dropped T thing vaguely startling premiered). But there’s also a them” asks, “Where is the the line in the inal version. His dismay in the in 2018: They play undiluted, charm to their guileless, ret- music, tune to free the soul/A song remained. largely unironic classic rock, ro-fetishist conviction. And simple lyric to unite us all?” Those recordings, issued in full for the deiantly ighting for a style dudes have chops. “Age of If they digest their inluences, irst time, are the dominant revelation in the of music that keeps getting Man” is lighters-up prog-rock they might have an answer 50th-anniversary expansion of The Beatles. At written of as irrelevant, even spirituality. “The Cold Wind” someday. 30 tracks on two LPs and dubbed “the White as it never quite goes away. and “” , hailing from Album” for its blank-canvas sleeve, it was the the U.K., have a head start group’s longest, most eclectic and emotionally on the revivalist circuit: In blunt record — an admission of frayed nerves 2014, they opened for the and strained bonds in the zigzag of ga- Stones in Paris, before even rage-roots rock, delicate balladry, proto-metal releasing their debut LP, fury, country ham and radical experiment. Everybody Wants, a lash pot The “Super Deluxe” edition has even more. In addition to the demos and a new remix of the album overseen by Giles Martin, son of the late producer George Martin, there are 50 tracks of Anthem of the work in progress — outtakes and sketches, the Peaceful roads not taken and songs left behind — across Army the summer and fall of 1968. 3 This is an unprecedented view of the Beat- The Struts les at the ground zero of songwriting, as well Young & as the trials and conlict that charged that Dangerous bounty — Lennon is exhausted to the point # of begging (“I’m So Tired”). McCartney inds relief in corn (“Honey Pie”). Harrison is com- ing up strong but frustrated. His Esher songs of musical-theater shtick, “Circles” and “Not Guilty” would have to wait glam-rock camp and pop- for solo albums released years later. punk snot. Their second LP The outtakes vary in impact. A 12-minute advances the notion that “Helter Skelter” is not the noisefest I’d hoped maybe ignoring the past 30 for but a solid groove, McCartney leading a The Struts or 40 years of pop trends blues-jam Beatles. The diferences in Lennon’s (top) and isn’t the best approach. The Greta Van two takes of longing for his mother, “Julia,” are writing-production irepower Fleet. telling; his vocal falls more naturally over the Greta Van Fleet seem launt the physical graiti includes Lauren Christy (of guitar in the second pass. An alternate down- like they leaped fully formed that got them noticed. The hitmakers ) and home “Good Night” is a marvelous shock, from the skull of a rock on “Lover Leaver” (Dua Lipa, Rachel ’s homely vocal gilded with earthy critic in 1975. Three brothers conjures the money-shot Platten). Frontman Luke harmonies closer to the Band. And do not fear and a bud from Michigan, inale of “,” Spiller slings one-liners like a for the original LP: Giles’ remix adds depth they come bearing shame- although this ascends where rock & roll Henny Youngman and detail without betraying the ’68 balance. lessly recycled Zeppelin-isms Zep’s descends. Good lyrics (see “Prima donna Like Me”). The Beatles is seen as the album on which with a frontman who seems could help push this beyond He also gets schmaltzily they started to break up. But it was wisely to have heard Rush’s 2112 a nostalgia. But the writing sincere from time to time, as titled — a self-portrait of the band at odds but few times. isn’t there yet. “You’re the on “Ashes (Part 2),” a cross pulling together behind each writer, playing as There’s an element of One,” a come-back-to-me between and they always did: in service to the song. the ridiculous in this (they plea to an “evil” girl, rhymes Maroon 5. The would-be radio smash is “,” over-the-top chant pop that’s winning on irst listen, irritating soon after. It’s one BREAKING part , two parts Mötley Crüe, and if it fails Empress Of’s Catchy, Complex Avant-R&B to be more than the sum of

L.A. SINGERSONGWRITER Lorely Rodriguez (who makes avant-R&B as Empress Of) its “whoo!”s, it’s still starting getting attention in 2012, when she posted a series of amorphous, angelic min- efective, and gets bonus ute-long songs on YouTube, each represented by a diferent color. Last year’s “Why Don’t points for a remix with Empress You Come On,” a hit duet with Khalid, suggested poppier ambitions she makes good on , who beats ’em all at Of with her new album, Us. The highlight is the efervescent, Eighties-indebted single, “When working classic rock into I’m With Him,” in which Empress Of delivers a missive from inside a loveless relationship. It’s modern pop. At least the the catchiest thing she’s done, without losing a hint of multihued artistry. BRENDAN KLINKENBERG boys knew enough to put her

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WEIGHTY RHYMES Chart-topping rapper’s motivational optimism and Nineties-loving porary global pop, Rosalia, beats are fine, but scrappy wisdom like 3 a Spanish singer trained in YSIV “My mind state is like a freight when I lamenco, channels a tradi- Def Jam rhyme” come of kind of leaden. tional sound through modern electronics. Her BACK AND BIG The power ballads on Per- mixes lamenco’s hand-clap Steve Perry ry’s first LP since 1994 can’t touch rhythms and pitch-manipu- peak Journey (a few are pretty clunky), but 3 lated vocals that trace ghostly Traces his cheese-angel pipes are almost totally Fantasy lines, and “Bagdad” alludes

WIREIMAGE; NADINE IJEWERE; intact, and more soulful with age. to ’s “Cry AY ENOS/WARNERAY BROS. Me a River.” The Puerto Ri- SAME OL’ THUMP The French DJ-producer can-Domincan duo Trending David Guetta works with and J Balvin on Tropics do it all at once; their 7 his latest, and intriguingly records half the 2 latest scavenges choral songs as Jack Back. But the results are music, hip-hop and Atlantic pretty predictable EDM pop. African rock. The result is music that swerves

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89 Esmail gets Roberts to dial back her star wattage, though he deploys her famous smile strategically and potently. This is Julia Roberts, actress, irst and foremost, and she gives a speciic and modu- lated performance — two of them, really, since waitress Heidi seems so disconnect- ed from therapist Heidi. (Even when My Best Friend’s Wedding’s Dermot Mulroney turns up as Heidi’s loser boy- friend, it feels like a relation- ship, not a reunion.) Roberts and James have abundant chemistry, which is crucial for a thriller built so much on two people just talking. The plot is intentionally slow to start, so the early episodes lean heavily on atmosphere and on how likable Heidi and Walter are together. Roberts and James more than deliver Roberts the latter, while Esmail is all counsels over the former. James. Esmail mostly sets aside the of-kilter framing of Mr. Homecoming Robot for elegant and classi- TV NETWORK AMAZON cal Hollywood compositions AIR DATE November 2nd in the scenes at the Home-

STARRING Julia Roberts coming facility. Expect lots of Stephan James complicated single takes and Bobby Cannavale a soundtrack that samples a Shea Whigham A GRIPPING ‘HOMECOMING’ Sissy Spacek variety of vintage suspense Dermot Mulroney movie scores. The future Julia Roberts proves to be as well-suited to the small screen 4 timeline is presented as a as the big one in this suspenseful, time-shifting drama vertical video, with black bars on the right and left of the screen. This can be a periodic and it remains taut as part Roberts plays Heidi Berg- navale), do something to her? distraction, but the payof of the welcome new trend of man, who in the present is And what happened to her that answers why those half-hour dramas. Parts of it the put-together and friendly favorite patient, - scenes look that way proves take place a few years from director of the Homecom- ing Walter Cruz (Stephan more than worth it. now, yet it’s startlingly low- ing program, designed to James)? These mysteries and The line between medi- tech. (Its chief sleuth, a clum- treat veterans with PTSD, more unfold carefully and ums has become blurred, sy Columbo-type civil servant and some four years later engagingly under the watch but there are still ways that played winningly by Shea is a rumpled waitress who of Esmail and writers Micah performances can be right Whigham, relies on paper doesn’t recall a lot about her Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz. for one and too big or small ALAN SEPINWALL iles, a lashlight and a pair of old job. How did she get from Questions are answered just for another. Roberts meets collapsible reading glasses.) one spot to the other? How when they should be (not Homecoming on the human It is much does she really remem- dragged along), and in ways level, right where it needs OMECOMING” IS A all at once and a pleasure to ber? Did Heidi’s slick corpo- that illuminate the characters her to be. Even for the small hypnotic blend of watch throughout. rate boss, Colin (Bobby Can- rather than undercut them. screen, she’s a perfect it. ‘Hold-school and new. It’s fronted by Julia Roberts, one of the last of the cap- STREAM THIS NOW ital- M Movie Stars hailing from an era when the idea of doing a TV series would be ‘Quantum Leap’ Is for Our Existential Blues unthinkable. It’s directed by STATE OF the world got you down? Step into the Eighties sci-fi drama Quantum Leap (Hulu), Mr. Robot creator , where a crusading nice guy (Scott Bakula) goes back in time to “put right what once went who makes half of each epi- wrong.” The show is a testament to the power of empathy, as a privileged white man experiences Bakula sode look like a loving Hitch- life as a Sixties secretary, a black chaufeur in the Deep South, a young adult with special needs, cock pastiche and the other even a NASA chimp. The improvements he makes to these lives are small in the grand scheme of half like it was shot on an things but crucial and powerful for all involved. Versatile and marvelously game, Bakula was a blast iPhone. Its story is adapted back then, as was Dean Stockwell playing his holographic sidekick. Today, they’re pure relief. A.S. from a Gimlet Media podcast,

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Wherever Magazines Are Sold Still, Allyson wanted to be employed. Working STEVE PERRY STRUGGLING IN AMERICA made her feel productive and capable. “This sounds kind of crappy to say because I’m a bleeding-heart [Cont. from 77] ized in Perry’s 1984 solo hit “Oh [Cont. from 85] from $18,000 to $22,000. When her liberal and I think we should have way more govern- Sherrie”), he won’t talk about any of them. Perry cheap housing fell through, she knew her inancial ment-assistance programs, but I would never want concedes that he has never been married and is situation made it impossible to even look for anoth- to be the kind of person who’s living of the govern- currently single, but goes quiet when the subject er rental, but leaving Orlando for her hometown of ment when I had the option not to,” she says. She of children comes up. (Internet sleuths theorize St. Pete meant leaving her stepmother — who didn’t was struck not only by the cruelty of the system, but that a woman he’s often photographed with named have an extra room to ofer her — and the free child also by its illogic. “I mean, obviously, there have to Shamila is his daughter. She bears a striking resem- care she had provided. More speciically, it meant be some regulations. I get that. You can’t just hand blance to him.) “I don’t want to talk about [kids],” he giving up on any illusion she might have kept that a hot commodity out to everyone for free. But I just says. “There’s a private part of my life that I won’t she’d be able to pull ahead by working; in St. Pete, feel like the people who don’t have [consecutive] pay have if I talk about it.” she knew she’d be living in poverty. Meanwhile, her stubs are probably the people who need to go back I notice a gold pendant in the shape of a musical application for child support and her application to to work the most. And to be in such a desperate po- eighth-note around his neck. This gets him talking. have her welfare payments reinstated to their origi- sition, and to just want so badly to go back to work?” “My mom gave it to me when I was 12,” he says. “She nal amount — a change that she felt should have been She inds herself at a loss for words. always believed in me. I wore it for years and years, as instantaneous as when the payments were re- For the moment, it’s quiet in her mom’s tiny irst- but hung it up in May of 1998, just after the band duced — both inched their way through the system. loor apartment. Atlas naps in his Pack ’n Play, and and I legally split and I had a complete contractual Americans tend to view poverty as monolithic — Allyson leads me out to the small screened-in porch, release from all my obligations to the band and label. the intractable state of a certain doomed set of peo- where the Florida air is thick and pungent. Storm I put it back on about 10 years ago.” ple. But, in fact, according to U.S. Census data from clouds are gathering. She lowers herself into a lawn As we spoke, Journey were hours away from taking 2011, roughly 25 percent of Americans experienced chair and sighs. Though she’s long lost the baby the stage at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans some poverty (two months or more) during that year, weight, Allyson still wears her maternity jeans with — on a double bill with — one of 60 yet only 8.3 percent were poor the whole time. In- their elasticized waistband. She can’t remember the shows they played this summer. As they do every deed, the line between the lower-middle class and last time she bought something new for herself. night, they’ll dedicate “Lights” to Perry. It’s a gesture those living in poverty can be incredibly porous, and “He has without, and he wouldn’t,” of gratitude, and for good reason. When Perry joined is growing even more so as the middle class becomes she says, as if making this statement true by force of Journey in 1977, none of the group’s albums had increasingly fragile. Which means that the monstrous sheer will. “But I have gone without for him. I wear sold well, and the band was pumping out anony- bureaucratic hassle of the beneits system can keep shoes with holes in them, I’ve sold my dead grand- mous . Perry changed everything. In him, people in poverty longer than they actually need ’s jewelry, I’ve donated plasma. I’ve gone Journey found a singer who not only wrote big, con- be. “It makes sense if you’re going to be on the same without deodorant for a week, without tampons for cise, catchy songs, but also belted them to the cheap beneit for a long time,” explains Schneider. “But it’s months. When you have no income, those things be- seats. Without him, Journey might well have been a a very signiicant mismatch when half of the peo- come expensive. A $3 box of tampons is a lot when prog-rock footnote. ple who experience poverty don’t experience it for it means that, if you spend that $3 and your kid gets Perry claims to feel no bitterness toward anyone in very long.” a diaper rash next week, you might not get to buy the band, even though he’s seen the members only Not that government assistance, as it’s current- diaper-rash cream. So you just don’t.” twice, and briely at that, in the past 20 years, and ly administered, offers much of a leg up anyway. To the extent that they can, her mother and father has rebufed attempts to reconnect on a social level. Bill Clinton’s welfare reform of the Nineties — when have tried to help her, but money is tight all around. Guitarist Neal Schon seems desperate for some sort work requirements were aixed to many forms of At present, Allyson is just grateful to have a free place of reconciliation and often tells interviewers he wants cash assistance — was meant to incentivize work, to stay. She once thought she’d be able to leapfrog to create new music with Perry — not even necessar- doing away with Ronald Reagan’s supposed “welfare her parents in the American-class hierarchy, but now ily for Journey. Schon has heard that Perry frequents queens.” Yet that assumed work to be the antidote she envies their relative stability, the jobs they go to his favorite cofee shop, and the guitarist hopes to to poverty when, for many, it isn’t. More than half of with consistency, the money they can count on every run into the singer there. Pressed on this, Perry says the nondisabled working-age adults living in poverty month. “I just knew,” she says, “there was no way he can’t imagine working with Schon in any capacity are actually employed. According to analyses done that I was going to get out of this situation unless I or even re-establishing the friendship. by sociologist and poverty expert Kathy Edin and pretty much won the lottery.” “I’m not sure that’s possible without stirring up her colleagues at Johns Hopkins, the only diference hopes of a reunion,” he says. “Please listen to me. I “welfare to work” has made for poor women was N THE END, it wasn’t the lottery that gave Ally- left the band 31 fucking years ago, my friend. You can where they spent their time: Before welfare reform, son another chance; it was Child Protective Ser- still love someone, but not want to work with them. they were home with their kids; after it, they were I vices, which showed up after she’d posted to an And if they only love you because they want to work more likely to be in the workforce. Their economic online forum called “Breaking Mom,” venting about with you, that doesn’t feel good to me.” situations remained unchanged because so much of the trials of raising a willful almost-two-year-old. “I When I bring up Cain’s new memoir, Don’t Stop the money they earned went to child care. joked that I was going to drop him of at the ire sta- Believin’ — an innocuous, uncontroversial book Nevertheless, since Trump took oice, a top priori- tion,” she says. “It was so obviously a joke.” But some- where he looks back on his life and heaps endless ty has been the rolling back of the safety net; the pro- one — it isn’t clear who — took the opportunity to call praise onto his bandmates, past and present — a jected deicits caused by corporate tax breaks pre- CPS, which then was required to investigate. “I really look of disgust comes across Perry’s face. “I don’t sumably justify raiding the welfare state. This past thought I was having a heart attack,” Allyson says of really care to read Jonathan’s book,” he says. “And I’d January, when the federal government told states that day. “I’ve never been that hysterical in my whole appreciate if you didn’t tell me about it. I don’t need that they could require Medicaid recipients to work, life. But basically, the caseworker said that he knew to know. It’s none of my business.” 12 states applied to do so, putting millions of people’s the call was malicious, Atlas was healthy and happy, But his mind is also on the future. Plans are still Medi caid at risk. Trump’s plan to restructure the fed- and he was going to close the case immediately.” unclear, but Perry wants to launch a tour of some eral agencies that oversee social policy may have Still, the caseworker probed into Allyson’s life sort to promote Traces. He says he’ll sing the Journey seemed banal — a cleaning of house to go hand in enough to learn of her financial situation — and hits again, meaning that “Faithfully,” “Separate Ways hand with the purported draining of the swamp — but he saw a way out. “He explained to me that, even (Worlds Apart)” and, yes, “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” will it was actually an attempt to enable cutbacks, shifting though he was closing my case that day, it actually come out of his mouth for the irst time in nearly programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance takes 30 days to process and close fully, no matter a quarter century. He clutches the eighth-note his Program (SNAP), which already has work require- what. During that time, your kid is considered at-risk, mother gave him, the one he put back on around the ments, from the jurisdiction of the Department of and when your child is considered at-risk, they want time Nash came into his life, and tries to make sense Agriculture to that of the Department of Housing and to do everything they can to fast-track them and you of it all. “I’m not the only one that goes through life,” Urban Development, a “welfare” department. The into a better situation.” This meant being able to by- he says with a deep sigh. “We’re all going through it, farm bill passed by the House in June would make pass the pay-stub requirement for subsidized child and I’m tolerating it the best I can.” work requirements for SNAP even more stringent. care. Thus one of the scariest things that ever hap-

96 | Rolling Stone | November 2018 pened to Allyson also turned out to be one of the What’s worn on her is not the day-to-day — where STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION best — a second chance to lift herself out of poverty. she can ind simple joys — but the accumulation of (Required by Title 39, United States Code 3685) Date of Filing: Oc- All this conlicts with our national narrative about days, the minutiae that becomes catastrophic (as tober 1st, 2018. Title of Publication: ROLLING STONE. Publication Number: 491-250. Frequency of issue: Monthly (except biweekly mobility, the story we tell ourselves about how to when Atlas threw a shoe from the only pair he owned Oct.-Dec. 2017). Annual Subscription Price: $49.95. Location of get ahead. If anything, Americans are optimists; we out of his stroller and Allyson couldn’t ind it), the known ofice of publication: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New believe, despite so many signs to the contrary, that way this builds up to months and years of small ca- York, New York 10104-0298. Location of the headquarters or Gen- eral Business ofices of the Publishers: Same as above. Publisher: we control our own fates, that if we just work hard tastrophes. According to Gallup, 31 percent of Amer- Andrew Budkofsky, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New enough and long enough, things will turn out all icans living in poverty say that they have sufered York 10104-0298. Editor: Jason Fine, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New right. The bootstrapper fairy tale is a nice one, but from depression, compared with 15.8 percent of York 10104-0298. Managing Editor: Alison Weinflash, 1290 Avenue it obfuscates the truth: that the deck is currently those who aren’t impoverished. of the Americas, New York, New York 10104-0298. Owner: Rolling stacked against the American worker. By far the hardest part of living in poverty for Al- Stone, L.L.C., 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10104-0298. Known bondholders, mortgages, or other securities: Allyson knows that there are things she could have lyson has been the way the psychology of it has bled None. Extent and nature of circulation: Average number of copies done diferently. She could have ignored Andy’s mes- into her experience of parenting. She can’t help but each issue during the preceding 12 months: (A) Total number of copies printed (net press run): 1,249,979. (B) Paid circulation (1) sages. She could have gotten that abortion. But what think back to those early-childhood classes about Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscriptions: 961,427. (2) Mailed haunts her now is all she did right, all the working how crucially important these irst few years are. She In-County Paid Subscriptions: 0. (3) Paid Distribution Outside the and saving and studying and striving, all the times worries that Atlas is getting old enough to know that Mail including sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter sales, and other non-USPS paid distribution: 25,844. (4) she was responsible. “I’m not a naive person,” she they’re struggling. “It’s a disconnect: I am stressed Paid distribution by other classes of mail through the USPS: 0. (C) says. “Before I decided to keep Atlas, through, out because I want to do what’s best for him, but be- Total paid distribution (sum of 15b [1], [2], [3], and [4]): 987,271. (D) Free or Nominal Rate Distribution Outside County: 144,577. (E) To- in my head, a million and one ways that this could cause I’m so , I’m not present for him. tal Free or Nominal Rate Distribution: 144,577. (F) Total distribution have gone. I knew there was a chance that Andy and Like, I barely remember a lot of him in the past year. (sum of 15c and 15e): 1,131,848. (G) Copies not Distributed: 118,131. I would break up. But I thought, no matter what, I I spent almost every minute of every day with him, (H) Total (sum of 15f and 15g): 1,249,979. (16) (A) Paid Electronic Copies: 119,613.(B)TotalPaidPrintCopies(Line15c)+Paid Elec- will not be in this alone. I was more sure about that but I barely remember most of those times,” she says, tronic Copies (Line 16a): 1,106,884. (C) Total Print Distribution (Line than I’ve ever been about anything in my whole life.” her voice breaking as she ights back sobs. “I just re- 15f) + Paid Electronic Copies (Line 16a): 1,251,461. Actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to filing Now, she’s not very sure of anything. “I thought ally hope that I have all of this igured out for him be- date: (A) Total number of copies (net press run): 822,365. (B) Paid you went to school, you got a job, and there you are fore he notices. I don’t want to miss too much more.” circulation (1) Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscriptions: 574,549. — you built a life. That’s not how it works at all. That Maybe she won’t have to. In a few days, and with (2) Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions: 0. (3) Paid Distribution Outside the Mail including sales through dealers and carriers, was hard to realize.” Also hard is the realization that Atlas’ subsidized day care inally in place, Allyson street vendors, counter sales, and other non-USPS paid distribu- her associate’s degree “might as well be a GED,” and will begin yet another stint with Starbucks. It’s still tion: 28,600. (4) Paid distribution by other classes of mail through the USPS: 0. (C) Total paid distribution (sum of 15b [1], [2], [3], and the complicated way her experience makes her feel a precarious situation: She’ll need to take ive difer- [4]): 603,149. (D) Free or Nominal Rate Distribution Outside Coun- about being a parent. “I wouldn’t change it for the ent buses to drop of Atlas and then get to work on ty: 103,158. (E) Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution: 103,158. (F) world,” she says, her voice breaking with emotion. time, a herculean act of coordination vulnerable to Total distribution (sum of 15c and 15e): 706,307. (G) Copies not Dis- tributed: 116,058. (H) Total (sum of 15f and 15g): 822,365. “Atlas is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. one late bus. If she misses work or Atlas misses day (16) (A) Paid Electronic Copies: 30,858. (B) Total Paid Print Copies But if I had thought that I was ever going to end up care, her subsidy is at risk. But still, in today’s Amer- (Line 15c) + Paid Electronic Copies (Line 16a): 634,007. (C) Total Print Distribution (Line 15f) + Paid Electronic Copies (Line 16a): 737,165. in this position, I wouldn’t have had a child. If I had ica, she knows this is her , her current form Icertifythatthestatementsmadebymearecorrectandcomplete. known then what I know now? Absolutely not.” of the American dream. For now, she’ll cling to it. Richard M. Miller

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You say on your new Oh, I should hope so. My share romantic things. I’m album that you can’t even God, if I haven’t learned the a terrible old romantic. My boil an egg. Is that true? trade now . . . Children have wife and I, when the kids go Absolutely true, mate. In always been very import- to bed, have candlelit dinners the Seventies, it was a difer- ant to me. But I had Kim- every night. It’s so lovely. ent era. We used to have girl- berly and Sean in the late When in your life were friends we’d shack up with. Seventies, when I was con- you the least happy? And then you sort of get fed siderably in debt, and I had Probably going through my up with them and they’d to go out and work a hell of a divorce from Rachel Hunter leave, or you’d kick ’em out. lot, so I missed a great deal of around 1999. But lo and be- Horrible, but then you real- their growing up. We’ve talk- hold, out of the sky came my ize, “Who’s gonna cook me ed about it. I’ve said, “You darling wife, Penny. She was dinner? Who’s gonna cook know, your dad wasn’t going dared by one of her friends to me breakfast?” I’m still abso- out, going to parties and go over and ask for Rod Stew- lutely hopeless. Nothing to shagging and drinking. I was art’s autograph, and she did. be proud of. Shame on you, working me ass of trying to Do your young kids like Stewart! get out of debt.” your music? You’re one of the few The one likes a lot of the rap classic-rock icons not on stuf, which is diicult be- Stewart’s 30th studio a farewell tour right now. cause it’s so many of the album, ‘Blood Red Yeah, and I’m also on the cussing words in there. Roses,’ is out now. right side of the grass still, The younger one likes thank the Lord. I got in a lot Dad’s music a bit, but of trouble for slagging Elton they’re both hung up What’s the one bit of of [for his farewell tour], on this Fortnite now. advice you wish you could since he’s already said he’s Jesus Christ, they give to yourself at age 20? gonna do more are obsessed. “Din- Probably, “Cut back on the after the 300. I mean, we all ner is on the table.” drinking.” In the Faces, we have to retire sooner or later, “Dad, I’m just inish- drank a hell of a lot. It was but it certainly is the fur- ing the game!” I have almost like a competition, thest thing away from me at to say, “If you don’t which one’s gonna fall down the moment. I’m having too do what you’re told, I’m irst. much fun. gonna cut the Internet of Do you ever think about Do you still get the same from the whole house.” what would have happened thrill from performing? Tell me about your fit- to your life if you didn’t de- Even more so now. What ness routine. velop your singing voice? a job I have. I get paid for Well, today, I was let of light- Well, that’s the million-dollar getting on a stage and sing- ly ’cause I had a band din- question. When I started, ing, sending everybody ner last night, and we all got it was all I wanted to do. home happy. It’s not like well-plastered. But I start- The two things I could do is being a sportsman. You can ed of in my gym strengthen- play soccer and sing. I got a send people home unhappy ing my legs for half an hour. chance at being a pro foot- if you lose, but I’m in a win- Then I went straight to my baller. I did it because me win situation. new pool and did 12 lengths, dad wanted one of his sons What have you learned and I’ll start doing diving. I’ve to be a footballer. I was the about relationships from got a trainer. It’s like the Navy last one, so I gave it a try, but your three marriages? SEALs. He throws a weight in, I wasn’t good enough, and it First of all, don’t have and then I’ve got to go down was about the time that I fell your discussions when and get it, swim back with the into music, so I don’t know you’ve got a glass of weight to the other side of the what I would have done, wine and you’re about pool. It’s very interesting. mate. Christ, that is a scary to go to bed. Wait until How much time do you thought. the morning. I’m also spend on your hair? You’ve got two young a much better listener I can do my hair — wash it, boys. Do you think you’re a now than I’ve ever been. dry it, get it standing up — in better father in your seven- You should always talk 10 minutes at the most. It’s ties than you were in your about things, be able real quick. I’m also just lucky thirties? to listen and still I still got it. ANDY GREENE

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