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Henry Yates

"It changed everything. After that it was never the same. I had to adjust my life": The story of the career-defining song with a lyric scribbled on a takeaway bag while stoned

Lenny Kravitz sitting in a beach with the sea in the background.

On a late night in New York City more than three decades ago, all that stood between Lenny Kravitz and superstardom was a lack of stationery.

“In 1992 I lived in a loft on Broome and Mercer,” he recalls. “A bunch of musicians lived there, so it was kind of a mess, and never had a proper pad and paper. So I’m listening to this track we’d cut that morning, that I’d brought home on a cassette, and I had no idea what I was gonna sing over it.

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