LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Officers introduced Wednesday that Lenny Kravitz is about for a Las Vegas residency in August.
The long-lasting star will return to Las Vegas in August at Dolby Dwell at Park MGM on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip. Kravitz mentioned he’s excited to take the stage following up on a earlier run of exhibits on the venue that he described as pleasantly shocking.
“I had a great time,” Kravitz mentioned. “It’s something that I’d never done—a residency in Vegas—and I wasn’t sure what to expect, what the vibe was going to be and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a beautiful celebration every night.”
A celebration, Kravitz mentioned, tied to his new effort entitled “Blue Electric Light.” That album options songs that explored the famous person’s teenage years, in two circumstances … actually. Two tracks have been written by Kravitz when he was in highschool.
“‘Blue Electric Light‘ is somewhat the record I would have put out if I had gotten a record deal in high school,” he mentioned. “The production value, the songs—it’s very close to what I was doing in high school, and in the case of those two songs, exactly the same thing I was doing in high school.”
Kravitz described the method of recording “Blue Electric Light,” which included using devices he had entry to as a youth. The star mentioned it was a connection that saved him shifting ahead whereas nonetheless wanting again. The identical might be mentioned for Kravitz’s mega-hit “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” which is able to attain its thirty second anniversary in 2025. The famous person remembered the method of writing the hit monitor, which he mentioned took simply 5 minutes.
“The riff [came first,]” Kravitz recalled. “Myself and Craig Ross, my guitarist and my partner … some things are just like a bolt.”
He recounted recording the long-lasting hit inside quarter-hour earlier than his studio session was over for the day, earlier than taking the monitor dwelling on cassette tape and developing with the lyrics.
“I had no idea how important this song was going to be for me,” he mentioned. Partly, “Are You Gonna Go My Way” was liable for reconnecting Kravitz with a rock star he had a forgotten tie with, Weapons N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
“I went to American Music Awards … and I was sitting in my seat in the audience, and Guns N’ Roses were sitting in front of me,” he remembered. “I kept looking at this guy and I was like, ‘I know this guy.’”
When Slash and Kravitz started speaking, it didn’t take lengthy for them to make the connection.
“We started talking, and he said, ‘Did you go to Beverly?’ That’s when I realized—we both went to Beverly Hills High School,” Kravitz mentioned, including that the 2 would ultimately work collectively on music.
Slash wasn’t the one iconic musician Kravitz labored with. There have lengthy been rumors of a collaboration between Kravitz and “His Royal Badness,” Prince. He confirmed that the city legend is definitely true, though he refused to substantiate which music on which the 2 had carried out.
“There’s several things,” Kravitz mentioned. “It’s really amazing that no one’s figured this out yet. It’s really obvious—but I guess it’s only obvious to me because I know.”
Kravitz’s twelfth studio album, “Blue Electric Light,” is on sale and streaming on all digital platforms. Pre-sale tickets can be found now by way of the Citi Leisure program, whereas fan pre-sale tickets can be accessible on Thursday at 10 a.m. Most people on-sale is about for Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
