There seems to be only three ways to start a magazine feature story. They all begin the same. And if you combine the first sentences from articles in any issue of Rolling Stone, you can create a weird, nightmarish tale. Here\u2019s an example. Each sentence comes from the first line of an article in the October 13, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s near midnight, and I\u2019m holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine, a whistle-stop town on the north-east coast of Australia. <\/p>\n
On a leafy corner lot in L.A.\u2019s Laurel Canyon, in a three-bedroom house that used to belong to Rob Lowe, Tom Morello is showing off the Marshall amp he\u2019s used for 22 years. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to feel it,\u201d Lou Reed says with a hard look at Metallica singer-guitarist James Hetfield. Five hours before Blink-182 take the stage in Saratoga Springs, New York, drummer Travis Barker is stuffing his face with broccoli and fake meat in his dressing room. A few days before his 85th birthday, Tony Bennett stands next to Lady Gaga in a midtown New York studio, working up a duet on Rodgers and Hart\u2019s \u201cThe Lady Is a Tramp.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wrapped in a hotel bathrobe and sipping red wine, Leslie Feist brandishes a tiger finger puppet and makes it say, \u201cHi, I am Fraulein Forever Jet-Lagged!\u201d <\/p>\n
In Capitol Records\u2019 giant Studio A in Los Angeles this summer, the surviving members of the Beach Boys \u2013 Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston- gathered around a microphone and, for the first time in two decades, harmonized on a track. <\/p>\n
Peter Gabriel set a strict rule for his 2010 world tour: no guitars or drums.<\/p>\n
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