Like new, no label, preserved well.

LOLLAPALOOZA By Chris Mundy.

Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction conjures up his rock & roll dream team.

Also noted: Alice Cooper, Slash, Ozy Osbourne; Red Hot Chili Peppers.

GUNS N' ROSES By Kim Neely

Overcoming obstacles, G n' R dazzle audiences at their first tour stop.

PLUS: TRIBUTES, 24... NEW FACES, 29... PERFORMANCE, 30

NATIONAL

MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY

By Christopher Dickey.

33

Despite the big talk - freedom, democracy, "new world order" -

Desert Storm was tought to preserve the status quo

FEATURES

ROD STEWART By Bill Zebme

38

Some guys have all the luck - and the nights, days and many blondes of Rod Stewart prove it.

HEAVY-METAL THUNDER By Mikal Gilmore..

50

Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer - touring as the Clash of the Titans - storm across the nation.

HARLOT'S GHOST By Norman Mailer

56

In the first of three excerpts from Norman Mailer's forthcoming novel,

CIA agent Harry Hubbard tastes sex and treachery in Berlin.

The Rolling Stone Interview with the director of Sbe's Gotta Have It,

Do the Kight hung and now, Jungle Lever DO OR DIE By Léon Bing.

72

This is gang life - at home, on the street, in prison - with Bloods and Crips.

THE WATERBOYS By James Henke

81

Labels flood them with offers, but the Waterboys pursue their own course.

SURFER BOYS By Peter Wilkinson.

84

The beach, the boards, the babes - it all adds up to noodle swingability.

FAITH AND THE FINEST Fashion by Patti O'Brien. 97

In the street clothes of summer, Faith No More runs into the SFPD.

KEVIEW

BONNIE RAITT By Elysa Gardner

105

Luck of the Draw explores love after the nick of time. Also reviewed:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Into the Great Wide Open

THE ROCKETEER By Peter Travers

113

A full-throttle blast of thrills, The Rocketeer is one of the summer's best.

PLUS: CD NEWS, 107 ... BOOKS, 117

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COVER: Photograph of Rod Stewart and Rachel Hunter by Andrew

Eccles, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1991. Hair by Edouard Le Nabat; makeup by Tuija Valén.

NORMAN MAILER Illustration by Philip Burke