Lenny Kravitz
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Lenny Kravitz: Come in, sit down, skin up…
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, March 1993
Enter, why don't you, Lenny Kravitz's psychedelically appointed freak pad, where herbular smells prevail, outdoor footwear is outlawed and co-habitees number willowy blondes and cantankerous ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 May 1990
Lenny on being away from home, his family background, the truth about the '60s copyist accusations, Prince, his band, and his Romeo Blue persona
File format: mp3; file size: 47.4meg, interview length: 49' 20" sound quality: ***
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Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule (Virgin)
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 5 October 1989
WHEN I first heard that Lisa Bonet's husband (who was then calling himself Romeo Blue) was working on a debut album, it seemed a vanity ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, December 1989
AS DEBUT LP titles go, Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby is a mouthful, but a memorable mouthful. ...
Lenny Kravitz: All You Need Is Love
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 19 May 1990
Lenny Kravitz is well on his way to becoming an international rock superstar. But is he really anything more than a hippy throwback with a ...
Lenny Kravitz: Giving Peace A Chance
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 19 May 1990
Lenny Kravitz might not be the new Hendrix, but he'd play the shit out of Jimi's guitar given the chance. Paul Elliott hears the feedback. ...
Lenny Kravitz: Fancy Seeing You Here!
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, April 1991
"OH MAN, people are always hitting me with this retro thing. And they're all missing the point. A lot of bands now are being psychedelic ...
Interview by Bruce Dessau, Vox, April 1991
Lenny Kravitz doesn't want an image. It's music that matters. He'd rather be in a studio and miserable than outside having fun. Bruce Dessau tracked ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1991
LAST YEAR'S HANDS-DOWN winner in the specialist category of best debut album by a dreadlocked Russo-Jewish Bahamian-American, Lenny Kravitz has since gone global, being taken ...
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 20 May 1991
Barney Hoskyns on the continuing power struggle between black and white influences in popular music ...
Lenny Kravitz finds his groove
Interview by Chris Heath, Details, March 1993
The child of Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Bob Marley, Lenny Kravitz is creating the rock/soul groove of the '90s. Before releasing his new record, ...
Jellyfish: Spilt Milk/Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way (Virgin)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, April 1993
"DO YOU like Queen?" asks my editor. "I hope not." ...
Back to the future — Lenny Kravitz, Lena Fiagbe: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 29 June 1993
Lenny Kravitz brings a dash of sixties to the nineties at the Brixton Academy ...
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, December 1993
Lenny Kravitz's Universal Love Tour is coming your way. So are iguanas, ritual white sage burning and Spodie the Plant Dancer. Simon Witter catches the ...
Pop View: The Perils of Loving Old Records Too Much
Comment by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 December 1993
TODAY'S ALTERNATIVE rock suffers from a strange kind of nostalgia — a yearning for a golden age that one never personally experienced. There's a term ...
Lenny Kravitz: Circus (Virgin/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 9 September 1995
CIRCUS TO REQUIREMENTS ...
Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 21 September 1995
IN THE TITLE TRACK of Lenny Kravitz's new album, the singer struggles with the dictates of reality that come to bear on fantasy. "Welcome to ...
Lenny Kravitz's Record Collection
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, November 1995
LENNY KRAVITZ'S record collection is, mostly, in his new house in New Orleans, not far from the pair of Jimi Hendrix's purple flares which he ...
Flower Of Power: Lenny Kravitz's 5
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, June 1998
'ROUND MIDNIGHT on December 20, 1989, at The World in downtown Manhattan's Alphabet City, Terence Trent D'Arby trooped back onstage to perform an obligatory encore ...
Lenny Kravitz: 'Don't Call Me A Sex Symbol'
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 27 November 2000
LENNY KRAVITZ is late. His "people" (a personal chef, band manager, tour manager, personal manager, publicists, fixers, press officers and assorted attractive but apparently purposeless ...
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, 28 June 2002
Lenny Kravitz: Wembley Arena, 17th June ...
Lenny Kravitz: Express yourself
Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, July 2004
Hip-hop's favorite rock guitarist shows us his soul. ...
Lenny Kravitz: Justifying his lack of love
Report by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 25 January 2008
THERE ARE DRY PATCHES, there are droughts, and then there are deserts — and it seems that Lenny Kravitz is living through his own personal ...
Interview by Chris Heath, Daily Telegraph, 16 June 2009
No one nailed the rock idol act like Lenny Kravitz. Love god, guitar hero, wild thing, he lived the life — multiple women, homes and ...
Lenny Kravitz: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 30 September 2014
LENNY KRAVITZ's iTunes Festival show, a packed and sweltering affair, was effectively the launch party for his new album Strut, which is big on raunchy ...
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