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Nick Valensi Is Ready to Join the All-Starr Band
The Strokes guitarist on his unlikely collaboration with Ringo Starr: “Holy shit.”
Ringo Starr and his garden full of friends have put out several EPs in recent years, the latest of which, Crooked Boy,features four songs that are the melodic equivalent of giving the peace sign. That’s because the guitar work was handled by none other than Nick Valensi, the Strokes’ longtime guitarist, who was looped into the project by Crooked Boy ’s writer and producer, Linda Perry. As Valensi tells it, Perry called him after she realized one of the EP’s chief influences was the Strokes, a band Ringo is a huge fan of.
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