Let Love Rule
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Ratings3
Average rating2.7
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection.” Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. “My life is all about opposites,” he writes. “Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored it. Yins and yangs mingled in various parts of my heart and mind, giving me balance and fueling my curiosity and comfort.” Let Love Rule covers a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, Los Angeles’s Baldwin Hills and Beverly Hills, and finally to France, England, and Germany. It’s the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in music. We see him grow as a musician and ultimately become a master songwriter, producer, and performer. We also see Lenny’s spiritual growth—and the powerful way in which spirit informs his music. The cast of characters surrounding Lenny is extraordinary: his father, Sy, a high-powered news executive; his mother, Roxie Roker, a television star; and Lisa Bonet, the young actress who becomes his muse. The central character, of course, is Lenny, who, despite his great aspirational energy, turns down record deal after record deal until he finds his true voice. The creation of that voice, the same voice that is able to declare “Let Love Rule” to an international audience, is the very heart of this story. “Whether recording, performing, or writing a book,” says Lenny, “my art is about listening to the inspiration inside and then sharing it with people. Art must bring the world closer together.”
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The book focuses on his childhood and very young adulthood up until the point when his daughter was born and he launched his first album. He talked about what it was like to grow up with parents who were a big deal in showbiz and his relationship with different people. He had a tense relationship with his father, great one with his mom, grandparents, and extended family and he was into music from a young age, obviously. He name-drops a lot of famous people but of course, that would happen as his parents were very well-connected. It's no surprise man famous people had been in his life from a young age. The biggest struggle in his life was his relationship with his father but it's all green lights from there. He received so much love and attention from the rest of his family and friends that it's no wonder he could just surf confidently through life.
This memoir was generally just factual, nothing too in-depth or anything but hearing about all the support he received did make me think a lot about how a lot of us are not fortunate to experience that. And I don't mean the financial support for the connections, I mean the affection and encouragement he received in critical moments of his life, only a few people are fortunate enough to get this in their lives.
