FEATURES
Desperate Times
Inanageofunrest,DaveGrohlisstillsearching for hope.
ByRod Yates...........................................................................................Khalid’s Teen Spirit
HowalonelyArmybratmadetheyear’sfreshest, most
surprising debut.ByJonah Weiner............................................... 58TheWonderofGalGadot
TheformerIsraelicombatinstructorhadgivenup on acting.
Then came Wonder Woman. The unlikely rise of the most
badass female action hero.
ByAlex Morris................................................................................... 62The Great Pretender
AlexCameronismakingfriendsinhighplaces.
ByLachlan Kanoniuk.................................................................... 66Pleasure&Pain
Death,terrorismandbadkneescan’tstopJoshHomme and
Queens of the Stone Age.
ByBarry Divola................................................................................... 68TheHumbleKing
ThebestrapperaliveonhisNumberOnehit,Taylor Swift and
the End Times.
ByBrian Hiatt..................................................................................ROCK&ROLL
The Killers’
‘Welcome’ Return
Brandon Flowers and Ronnie
Vannucci on making their
most personal album yet. .....TheStonesAreBack
Angus&Julia,thatis,with
their new album ‘Snow’.........Q&A: Ringo Starr
TheformerBeatle on why
he’ll never write a memoir and
recording with McCartney .. 22My Soundtrack:
Brian Molko
The Placebo frontman on, er,
Kim Gordon’s socks .............. 38DEPARTMENTS
Letters ..................................... 6
Random Notes..................... 10Records ................................. 79
The Last Page ....................... 90“AlltheNewsThat Fits”
RS 791
October, 2017 RollingStoneAus.com | Rolling Stone | 4
WONDER
STUFF
Gal Gadot’s
rise.PageKILLING IT
The Killers
return. Page 13ON THE COVER Foo Fighters