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Issue 770 January 2016 $9.95 (GST INC) >> NZ $9.95 (GST INC) The Dark Web INSIDE THE HIDDEN INTERNET The Weeknd SEX, DRUGS AND R&B Tom Petty’s Lost Years Kurt Cobain HIS SECRET RECORDINGS Plus BUDDY GUY BILLY GIBBONS ARCHIE ROACH PHIL COLLINS TIM ROGERS COLDPLAY Adele GRIMES A Private Life 100007738 Print Post Approved Print Post More rooms. More music. More happy. 2 Room Starter Set - $529 $YDLODEOHDW-%+L)L+DUYH\1RUPDQ 6SHFLDOLVW+L)L6WRUHV Limited time offer. Save $69. 2σHUSHULRGDSSOLHV1RYWR'HF ELVIS PRESLEY JOE COCKER Elvis as you have never heard him before! The first comprehensive double album of Joe’s entire Featuring classic Elvis hits including musical history 36 unforgettable recordings, including ‘Burning Love’, Love Me Tender’, and ‘Fever’ ‘You Are So Beautiful’, ‘Many Rivers To Cross’, and (featuring Michael Buble). ‘You Can Leave Your Hat On’. ROGER WATERS BOB DYLAN The eponymous soundtrack to the globally acclaimed Latest volume in acclaimed Dylan Bootleg series feature filmCaptures Waters’ sold-out 2010-2013 premieres previously unreleased studio recordings. ‘The Wall Live’ tour, the first complete staging of the Includes never-before-heard songs, outtakes, rehearsal classic Pink Floyd concept album since 1990. tracks, and alternate versions, from the BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME, HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED and BLONDE ON BLONDE Sessions. LEGENDS ALBUMS AC/DC DAVID GILMOUR ROCK OR BUST! Brand new solo album. New album featuring ‘Play Ball’, and ‘Rock Or Bust’. Features ‘Rattle That Lock’, A Boat Lies Waiting’, and ‘The Girl In The Yellow Dress’. JEFF LYNNE’S ELO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN First album of all-new ELO music in over a decade! Contains 4 CDs, with a wealth of unreleased material, Features new songs including ‘When I Was A Boy’, and 4 hours of never-before-seen video on 3 DVDs ‘When The Night Comes’, and ‘ The Sun Will Includes studio outtakes; a two-DVD film of never- Shine on You’. released, newly edited multi-camera footage from 1980 concert; rare tour rehearsal footage; a brand new documentary ‘The Ties That Bind’ about ‘THE RIVER’ Packaged in coffee table book of 200 rare or previously unseen photos and memorabilia. AVAILABLE NOW RS770 “ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS” FEATURES Grimes released her new album, The Weeknd’s Dark Twisted Fantasy Art Angels, last TheformerR&BmysterymanwantstobeyourMichael month. Josh Eells 56 Page 36 Jackson. By .............................................................. She’s the One Thetriumphantreturnofpost-heartbreakAdele. By Brian Hiatt....................................................................................62 My Life in 15 Songs: Billy Gibbons ZZTopguitaristonhangingwithHendrixandgoing New Wave. By David Fricke .....................................................70 King Bee BuddyGuymaybethelastbluesmanofhisera,buthis mojo is still working. By Patrick Doyle ................................. 74 The Dark Net Inside the Web’s secret space for criminals, arms traffickers and hackers – all funded by the U.S. government. By David Kushner .....................................................................80 ROCK & ROLL Phil Collins’ Cobain’s Lost Tapes Unlikely Return New set unearths trove of Insidethesinger’sdarkdays home recordings..................30 and surprise comeback. ...... 15 Grimes in the Big Time Q&A Roger Waters Theoddballproducesallher “When B.B. King ownmusicandhasJayZon passed away, On his new concept LP, feuding I kind of woke with Howard Stern and being her team, a new album and big up and said, ‘I’m terrified of Hillary Clinton .... 20 dreams................................... 36 the last one here’,” says Buddy Guy. Page 74 DEPARTMENTS RANDOM NOTES MOVIES Mick Jagger bowls over Suffragette Nashville and Ozzy goes on a The struggle for early women’s monumental trip .................. 12 rights ....................................102 RECORD REVIEWS THELASTPAGE Bruce Springsteen Albert Hammond Jr The Boss answers a 35-year Onbeingaggressivewithcops old question...........................89 and loving Thor. ................. 106 Billy Gibbons (with ZZ Top) takes a look at his ON THE COVER Adele photographed in London catalogue. Page 70 on October 6th, 2015, by Theo Wenner. Styling by Gaelle Paul. Hair by Kerry Warn. Makeup by Liz Pugh. Nails by Jenny Longworth. FROM TOP: GETTYDANNY CLINCH; IMAGES; GETTY IMAGES 6 | Rolling Stone | RollingStoneAus.com January, 2016 CORRESPONDENCE LOVE LETTERS & ADVICE ROLLING STONE AUSTRALIA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & PUBLISHER: Mathew Coyte ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Emma Vidgen some covers he recorded have EDITOR: Rod Yates The Vinyl Straw ART DIRECTOR: Cameron Emerson-Elliott been unearthed, so sure, why CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adams, Luke Anisimoff, once again the record not foist them on the public? Jaymz Clements, Toby Creswell, Barry Divola, Robyn Doreian, Michael Dwyer, Samuel J. Fell, Dan companies have missed the And this album of unreleased Findlay, Ed Gibbs, James Jennings, Dan Lander, mark. 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