Photo: Sufjan Stevens. All rights reserved.
What happens to unrequited love? Does it become divine love? Towards a Platonic ideal? And what does Chris de Burgh have to do with it? Questions we answer in the current issue of Rolling Stone Weekly. It’s about “Javelin”, the new album by Sufjan Stevens, the much-loved songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, after all sorts of experiments, has made an accessible song record again. And it’s about the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla”, which tells the story of Elvis’ wife. Will this be the radical counter-narrative to the biopic “Elvis”?