I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. My guest today is Youngblood, who had a true

breakthrough in 2025. On his fourth album, Idols, he embraced unabashed classic rock,

bending his career on the music he grew up loving in his dad's guitar shop in the north of England.

He ended up with three Grammy nominations, a sold-out tour, and a career-shaking performance at Ozzy Osworn's final concert. We talked about idols, including the second part of the album that's coming out this year, the new album he's working on with Andrew Watt, the 27 Club, the EP he just recorded with Aerosmith, and a lot more. Here's my conversation with Youngblood.

So how you feeling in every way, man? I know you had to call off some gigs.

Like, how you feel?

Fundamentally, I'm well.

I always get myself checked after every tour I do, especially after this year.

And when I did, I have a tendency to run and run and run until the wheels fall off.

You know, I think that's how I'm built.

I really do feel lucky to be here, you know.

But it was the first time that kind of, I had medical advice that were like, you've got 18

months touring coming up.

We think you should knock a couple of heads, gigs on their head at the end of this year.

And I think I'm pretty grateful as well, to be honest, for that, because it's been such a mental year to be able to have the time to actually like comprehend it and process it in my head.

I think I go back out on tour in January and it runs till mid 27 now, you know.

So I think it's important to kind of take that time. I think, like, yeah,

really process what's going on and be grateful for it. Yeah, I mean, you've had tremendous success this

year, and I think what people forget, on a mental health basis, success can sometimes be

just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than, you know, lack of success.

Yeah, especially if you don't process it. I think, like, you meet kind of the people who are

bitter in this industry towards the end, you know? It's because they didn't process what

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