The Rolling Stone Interview

Sinéad o’connor

March 7, 1991

Billy Joel on Fire, Again: The Rolling Stone Interview

THE 1980s

Tina
Turner

October 23, 1986

Pete Townshend on ‘Empty Glass,’ Cincinnati, and the Who’s Future

THE 1970s

PHOTOGRAPHS IN lead art: Thea Traff (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez); Devin Oktar Yalkin (Bobby Weir); Christopher Gregory-Rivera (Bad Bunny); Erik Tanner (Cory Booker); Mark Seliger (Kendrick Lamar); Peggy Sirota (Elizabeth Warren); Lindsey Byrnes (Francis Ford Coppola); Randee St. Nicholas (Stevie Nicks); David McClister (Eric Church); Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Mick Jagger); Sacha Lecca (Stephen A. Smith); Ryan Pfluger (Monica Lewinsky); Goedefroit Music/Getty Images (Sinead O’Connor); Ryan Pfluger (Andre 3000); Mark Seliger (Lin-Manuel Miranda); Anton Corbijn (Bono); Erik Tanner (Jack Antonoff); Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (Keith Richards); Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (Bob Dylan); Devin Oktar Yalkin (James Gunn); Erik Tanner (Nancy Pelosi); Xavier Scott Marshall (Charlamagne Tha God); Flo Ngala (Kamala Harris); Chris Walter/WireImage (Frank Zappa); Brad Elterman (Miley Cyrus); Frank Worth/Courtesy of Emage International/Getty Images (Elizabeth Taylor); Erik Madigan Heck (Taylor Swift); Philip Cheung (Jimmy Kimmel); Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty Images (Billy Joel); Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (Eric Clapton); Ulysses Ortega (Joan Baez)

Florence Welch

Joe
Budden

David Byrne

Roy Wood Jr.

Joan Baez

Charlamagne tha god

THE 2020s

Bad Bunny

January 13, 2025

FKA Twigs: ‘I Love Telling the Truth. I Have to Tell the Truth’

‘Superman’ Director James Gunn: ‘You Don’t Want Everyone to Root for You’

Stephen A. Smith: ‘I’ve Always Been Intensely Polarizing’

Eric Church: ‘I Enjoy the Antagonistic’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘The People Will Show Me the Way’

Cory Booker: ‘People Want to Know You Give a Shit’

Stevie Nicks: ‘I Believe in the Church of Stevie’

Bobby Weir: ‘I’ve Never Made Plans. I’m Too Busy’

Monica Lewinsky: ‘I Managed to Survive Somehow, So It’s Possible’

Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Now I See Myself More as a Place to Scream’

André 3000: ‘I’d Rather Go Amateur Interesting Than Master Boring’

Nancy Pelosi: ‘This Is Bigger Than Any of Us’

Francis Ford Coppola: ‘I Have Nothing Left to Lose’

Kamala Harris: ‘What Kind of Country Do We Want to Live In?’

David Chase: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jack Antonoff Is Everywhere: The Rolling Stone Interview

Miley’s Rock & Roll Heart

Sheryl Crow: The Rolling Stone Interview

THE 2010s

Taylor Swift

September 18, 2019

Elizabeth Warren: The Rolling Stone Interview

A Softer Side of Howard Stern

Bono: ‘I Have Come to Peace With the Zealot I Used to Be’

Chris Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview

The Black Keys: The Rolling Stone Interview

Nancy Pelosi: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jerry Brown’s California Dream: The Rolling Stone Interview

Kendrick Lamar: The Rolling Stone Interview

Rachel Maddow: The Rolling Stone Interview

John Oliver Takes on the Trump Era: The Rolling Stone Interview

Paul McCartney Looks Back

Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bernie Sanders Fights On: The Rolling Stone Interview

Obama Takes on Climate Change

Chris Rock: The Rolling Stone Interview

Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview

Peter Jackson: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bob Dylan Unleashed

Obama and the Road Ahead

Bruce Springsteen’s State of the Union

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

Eddie Murphy Speaks: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jon Stewart: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bill Maher on Palin, Pot, and Patriotism

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Interview

Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview

John Lennon: The Last Interview

THE 2000s

Eminem

November 25, 2004

Madonna Looks Back: The Rolling Stone Interview

Sean Penn: The Rolling Stone Interview

Brad Pitt: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jay Z: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bruce Springsteen: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview

George Lucas and the Cult of Darth Vader

John Kerry: The Rolling Stone Interview

Elvis Costello: The Rolling Stone Interview

Howard Dean: The Rolling Stone Interview

Will Keith Richards Bury Us All?

Pete Townshend: On Sex, Crying, and Pretending to be Drunk

Ozzy Osbourne: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bob Dylan, at 60, Unearths New Revelations

The Dalai Lama: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bill Clinton: The Rolling Stone Interview

Al Gore: The Rolling Stone Interview

Al Gore: The Rolling Stone Interview

THE 1990s

Sinéad O’Connor

March 7, 1991

Jack Nicholson: The Badass Hollywood Star

Beck: The Rolling Stone Interview

Patti Smith: Family Life, Recent Loss, and New Album

Mick Jagger Remembers

Eddie Van Halen: Balancing Act

Chris Cornell: The Rolling Stone Interview

Courtney Love: Life Without Kurt

Steven Tyler: Talk This Way

Barry Diller: The Rolling Stone Interview

Julia Roberts: The Rolling Stone Interview

Johnny Cash: The Rolling Stone Interview

Howard Stern: The Rolling Stone Interview

Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview

Bill Clinton: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bono, Behind the Fly: The Rolling Stone Interview

David Letterman: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bill Clinton: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bruce Springsteen Leaves E Street: The Rolling Stone Interview

Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview

Michael Stipe: The Rolling Stone Interview

Robbie Robertson on ‘Dark Period’ of His Life and Rooming With Martin Scorsese

Jerry Garcia Reflects on the Grateful Dead’s Relentless Success and Ever-Growing Catalog

Eric Clapton: The Rolling Stone Interview

True Confessions: Carrie Fisher Interviews Madonna

David Lynch: ‘It’s Better Not to Know So Much About What Things Mean’

Bonnie Raitt: The Rolling Stone Interview

Billy Joel on Fire, Again: The Rolling Stone Interview

THE 1980s

Tina Turner

October 23, 1986

Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview

Eddie Murphy: Call Him Money

Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview

Lou Reed: The Rolling Stone Interview

Keith Richards: A Stone Alone Comes Clean

The Rolling Stone Interview: Eric Clapton

Interview: Neil Young

David Byrne: Rock Master of Multicultural Sound

Robert Plant: The Rolling Stone Interview

Robin Williams: The Rolling Stone Interview

Sting Reaches for the Sun

The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in 1987

Woody Allen: The Rolling Stone Interview

Billy Joel: The Rolling Stone Interview

Paul McCartney: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jack Nicholson: The Rolling Stone Interview

The Everly Brothers: The Rolling Stone Interview

John Cougar Mellencamp: The Comeback Kid

Bob Geldof: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bishop Desmond Tutu: The Rolling Stone Interview

Clint Eastwood’s American Dream

The Rolling Stone Interview: Bruce Springsteen on ‘Born in the U.S.A.’

Bill Murray: The Rolling Stone Interview

The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan

Joan Baez: The Rolling Stone Interview

Elvis Costello Repents

Francis Coppola: The Rolling Stone Interview

Steve Martin’s New Song and Dance

Keith Richards: No Regrets

Tom Wolfe: The Rolling Stone Interview

Pete Townshend on ‘Empty Glass,’ Cincinnati, and the Who’s Future

THE 1970s

Ray Charles

January 18, 1973

James Taylor: The Rolling Stone Interview

Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview

Joni Mitchell Defends Herself

Johnny Carson: The Rolling Stone Interview

Linda Ronstadt: The Rolling Stone Interview

Mick Jagger: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview

Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part 2

George Lucas: The Wizard of ‘Star Wars’

The Beach Boys: The Healing of Brother Brian

Oriana Fallaci: The Rolling Stone Interview

Neil Young: The Rolling Stone Interview

Les Paul: The Rolling Stone Interview

Glenn Gould: The Rolling Stone Interview (Part One)

Paul McCartney: The Rolling Stone Interview

Daniel Ellsberg: The Rolling Stone Interview

Art Garfunkel: The Rolling Stone Interview

Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview

Paul Simon: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview

Keith Richard: The Rolling Stone Interview

John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part One

John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part Two

Grace Slick With Paul Kantner: The Rolling Stone Interview

David Crosby: The Rolling Stone Interview

Paul Simon: The Rolling Stone Interview

John Fogerty: The Rolling Stone Interview

THE 1960s

Eric Clapton

May 11, 1968

Bob Dylan: ‘Making a Record Isn’t Any More Than Recording a Song’

Jim Morrison: The Rolling Stone Interview

Cass Elliot: The Rolling Stone Interview

Phil Spector: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jean-Luc Godard: The Rolling Stone Interview

John Lennon: ‘There’s Nothing More Fun Than Talking About Your Songs’

Mick Jagger: ‘I Don’t Think Lyrics Are That Important’

Pete Townshend Talks Mods, Recording, and Guitars

The Rolling Stone Interview: Frank Zappa

PHOTOGRAPHS IN lead art: Thea Traff (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez); Devin Oktar Yalkin (Bobby Weir); Christopher Gregory-Rivera (Bad Bunny); Erik Tanner (Cory Booker); Mark Seliger (Kendrick Lamar); Peggy Sirota (Elizabeth Warren); Lindsey Byrnes (Francis Ford Coppola); Randee St. Nicholas (Stevie Nicks); David McClister (Eric Church); Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Mick Jagger); Sacha Lecca (Stephen A. Smith); Ryan Pfluger (Monica Lewinsky); Goedefroit Music/Getty Images (Sinead O’Connor); Ryan Pfluger (Andre 3000); Mark Seliger (Lin-Manuel Miranda); Anton Corbijn (Bono); Erik Tanner (Jack Antonoff); Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (Keith Richards); Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (Bob Dylan); Devin Oktar Yalkin (James Gunn); Erik Tanner (Nancy Pelosi); Xavier Scott Marshall (Charlamagne Tha God); Flo Ngala (Kamala Harris); Chris Walter/WireImage (Frank Zappa); Brad Elterman (Miley Cyrus); Frank Worth/Courtesy of Emage International/Getty Images (Elizabeth Taylor); Erik Madigan Heck (Taylor Swift); Philip Cheung (Jimmy Kimmel); Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty Images (Billy Joel); Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (Eric Clapton); Ulysses Ortega (Joan Baez)