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Radiohead
Radiohead Re-connect
How the most experimental band in music learnt to rock again.
By David Fricke
Photograph by Nadav Kander
Thom Yorke walks into the catering room backstage at the American Airlines Arena in Miami wearing a dark T-shirt, tight red jeans and a crooked smile. “I’m feeling quietly excited – and quietly nervous,” Radiohead’s front man says as he pours himself a cup of coffee. Yorke flew in from Britain late yesterday – his eyelids are still heavy with jet lag – and he is due on stage shortly for Radiohead’s final rehearsal before the launch of their most extensive tour since 2008: 58 shows over 10 months in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Jimmy Iovine
The Man with the Magic Ears
Legendary producer Jimmy Iovine looks back on a life chasingthe perfect sound.
By David Fricke
Photograph by Mark Seliger
In 1975, 21-year-old jimmy Iovine had the most exciting and gruelling job in rock: engineering the sessions for Bruce Springsteen’s third album, Born to Run. Each day, before he caught the subway to the Record Plant in Manhattan, Iovine – a Brooklyn native of Italian descent – walked by his father’s social club. Once, he overheard his dad, a dock worker, talking to a friend outside. “The guy asks my dad, ‘What is it with your son, with the music and the headphones? What is this shit he does?’” Iovine recalls, laughing. “My dad goes, ‘He’s got magicears. He can hear what you’re thinking.
Ready for the Fight
CURRENT AFFAIRS
In a rare Oval Office interview, President Obama discusses his job, the opposition and the coming campaign.
By Jann S. Wenner
Photography by Mark Seliger
We arrived at the White House on easter Monday, the South Lawn over run by children and their parents enjoying the annual Easter Egg Roll. This was the fourth time in the past four years that we had sat down for an extensive interview with Barack Obama, but the tenor and timing were markedly different from the previous conversations. This time he was focused on the campaign, his thinking dominated by the upcoming battle for a second term.