Ahead of the release of Cheap Trick’s new album In Another World, guitarist Rick Nielsen reminisces about meeting John Lennon, his first performance with Robin Zander, and the first album he ever bought in this installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time interview series. Although Nielsen is a Rock and …
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Stephen Malkmus talks Three Dog Night, smoking weed, and owning a racehorse in the latest installment of “The First Time.” Malkmus kicks off by describing the first song he ever wrote, “Psychopath,” comparing the key to Napoleon XIV’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” “It’s hard for a 12-year-old …
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Coco Ho grew up on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, surrounded by surfers, so it may not be a surprise that she first learned to surf as a baby. But she says the first time she took to a board on her own was at the age of eight. …
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Rachel Morrison picked up her mom’s old Olympus camera when she was four years old and she was hooked, dedicating herself to living behind the lens. In high school, she learned about cinematography, marveling that “you could take 24 still photographs per second and be part of telling an emotional, …
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