“Slash came up to me and said, ‘Man, I got laid to your records so much.’ I said, ‘Dude, didn’t we go to high school together?’”: How Lenny Kravitz’s Let Love Rule and Mama Said turned him into a superstar

Lenny Kravitz posing for a photograph in a gold suit in 1991.

Lenny Kravitz’s potent mix of rock, soul, funk and blues made him a breakout star when he first emerged 1989. In 2014, Classic Rock met up with him near his home in Paris to look back on his first two albums, Let Love Rule and Mama Said, and just how he became the musician everyone from David Bowie to Slash wanted to work with.