Common + John Legend: Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians – Special Series

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What happens when we take the writer away and ask two old friends and Oscar-winning collaborators to dive into what drives their music and their words? On the new episode of Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians, also running as a special series on the Rolling Stone Music Now feed, we hear Common and John Legend discuss the emotional nature of collaboration and how their shared activism has connected them forever. In the past few years, John Legend has cemented his position as the king of inspirational R&B. His latest album, Legend, is a legitimate double album that features A-list guests and mixes snappy pop-funk with moving piano ballads. At a studio in New York this fall, he reconnected with another long-time friend and collaborator: Common. Legend has that EGOT; Common has a Grammy, Emmy and Oscar of his own, and the pair two won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for ‘Glory,’ the song they performed for the film Selma. And both have contributed their own entries to Audible’s Words + Music series, blending memoir and performance to bring listeners closer to their unique journeys as artists.The conversation revealed the strength of their bond — and a mutual appreciation of the way that art can serve as an important bridge between cultures. Produced by OBB Sound. Content in partnership with Audible's Words + Music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Words in Music is an intimate, groundbreaking audible series that blends in-depth memoir with
0:06.8	exclusive performances to reveal the storied lives and singular creative vision of music icons.
0:13.0	Each thoughtfully crafted volume is as unique and varied
0:15.9	as the artist delivering it.
0:17.6	Words and music brings together an extraordinary roster
0:20.6	of once in a generation artists, visionaries, trailblazers, and consummate storytellers,
0:26.2	including Smoky Robinson, Alanis Mora set, Billy Joe Armstrong, Sting, St Vincent, and Beck, among many others.
0:34.0	Hear them and other groundbreaking artists share their stories and songs,
0:38.0	unscripted and unfiltered.
0:40.0	Listen to Words and Music, and Audible Original Series.
0:44.0	Go to Audible.com, backslash Words and Music to start listening.
0:50.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, host of Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:54.0	Today you're about to hear an episode of our sister podcast, Rolling Stones Musicians on Musicians,
1:00.0	featuring John Legend and Common. My brother. Great to connect, brother.
1:13.0	Been too long, I know, brother.
1:15.0	Since the pandemic, I feel like we haven't seen each other.
1:18.0	We weren't around each other for a while,
1:20.0	so it's like, good to just be in tune.
1:23.0	For more than just be in tune.
1:32.0	For more than 50 years, the writers of Rolling Stone have been sitting down with artists to go inside
1:34.5	their sound, their creative process, and the quirks and perks of being a musician.
1:39.3	But what happens when we take the writer away and ask two old friends and Oscar winning
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