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How to Write a Fake Rock Song


The musician Will Butler on his new Broadway banger.

In 2013, playwright David Adjmi came up with the idea for Stereophonic, a show about a group of ego-clashing, Fleetwood Mac –esque musicians working on their soon-to-be-epochal rock album in the mid-’70s. He knew what it was like to be in a band, struggling to put out a single good song and striving to find collective inspiration that didn’t compromise his own creativity. It’s like, So Holly went to the David Bowie show and Sylvester opened in 1972and then she probably had dinner at fucking Eric Clapton’s house at some point and he played her these two reggae records.

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