13WHEN HARRY STYLES wanted to celebrate
his excellent new album, Fine Line, he
went all the way: a one-night-only show
at the L.A. Forum in December, featuring
a surprise duet with his idol Stevie Nicks
on “Landslide.” Two days before the show,
hard at work rehearsing with his band in
Hollywood, Styles kept singing even while
getting a vitamin IV — in his customary
mix of high fashion and thrift-shop
clobber, rocking Gucci shades and a
T-shirt from U.K. indie band Swim Deep.
Fine Line topped the ROLLING STONE
200 Albums chart in December — the last
album of the 2010s to do so — 10 years
after Styles first blew up with One Direc-
tion. As he says, the songs come from
“a long period of self-reflection and self-
acceptance. I went through a lot of
personal changes. I just had the conver-
sations with myself that you don’t always
have.” The album is full of romantic
heartache, magic mushrooms, and glam-
rock power moves. The 25-year-old even
tracked down the woman who built Joni
Mitchell’s dulcimer so he could play one
on “Canyon Moon,” which he calls “Crosby,
Stills, and Nash on steroids.”
Harry heads out on his world tour in
April. “I just feel more comfortable being
myself, which makes the environment
for making music just like a playground.”
ROB SHEFFIELDVitamin H:
Harry Styles
Ta ke s L. A.
Styles getting an intravenous
dose of vitamins during
a December rehearsalPHOTOGRAPH BY Hélène Marie Pambrun | 13