Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Mark McStea

“I traded Elliot Easton an old left-handed Telecaster for them. I did really well with that trade”: Lenny Kravitz and Craig Ross on how big dreams and gourmet tones shaped a ’90s rock classic – and why modern gear has nothing on vintage

Lenny Kravitz and Craig Ross jam it out together onstage.

When Lenny Kravitz released Circus, his fourth album, in 1995, he was coming off the back of the career-defining, global success of 1993’s Are You Gonna Go My Way.

That album – and the single of the same name – saw him scoring huge success in every market around the world, maintaining his seemingly constant upward trajectory; his second album, 1991’s Mama Said, had already comfortably surpassed the impressive sales of his debut, 1989’s Let Love Rule.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.