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Muhammad Ali: Remembering the Greatest of All Time
In our 2016 cover story, we remember the legendary boxer who changed the country
- From the Archives
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Frankenstein, My Father, My Brother, and Me
Growing up "in a house where murder was born," the author spent a lifetime haunted by real-life horror, but has come to understand his love of the original Universal movie and Mary Shelley's book — it's the story of his family
- Monsters and Men
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Jerry Lee Lewis Was a Rock & Roll Titan. That Doesn’t Justify What He Did Offstage
The singer lived out rock's audacity in extreme fashion, making him one of the defining performers of his era. He also did terrible things, over and over
- Tainted Legacy
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Anne Rice: The Extended 1995 Interview
In 1995, Rolling Stone sent Mikal Gilmore to New Orleans for an interview with Anne Rice about her latest Vampire Chronicles book, Memnoch the Devil
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Charlie Watts Is a Jazz Drummer: The Lost 'Rolling Stone' Interview
In a previously unpublished interview from 2013, Watts goes deep into his favorite drummers, what the Stones do better than the Beatles, and outlasting almost every band
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The Queen: Aretha Franklin
She was a traumatized child, a teenage mother, a gospel prodigy and a civil-rights champion. She channeled a world of pain into a sound all her own, but till the end, the greatest singer of her generation remained a mystery.
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Gregg Allman: The Wild Times, Lost Years and Rebirth of a Southern-Rock Legend
The Allman Brothers singer survived nearly 50 years of epic shows and unimaginable disaster – but there was one death he could never get over
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Inside the Making of 'Sgt. Pepper'
In 1967, the Beatles were at a crossroads — they quit touring, experimented with drugs and set out to change rock & roll forever
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Review: The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's' Anniversary Editions Reveal Wonders
This authorized reconsideration of a major canonical work may be how it was always meant to be heard
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Chuck Berry: Farewell to the Father of Rock
He gave the music its sound and its attitude, even as he battled racism – and his own misdeeds – all the way
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