Best of 2025: Another archive story, this piece on the making of the Lenny Kravitz hit Are You Gonna Go My Way had over 400,000 readers this year.
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 I 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.
