‘I never really know how I’m going to be able to talk about this stuff,” Lucy Rose says at the kitchen table of her Brighton home. Ostensibly, I’m here to talk to the singer about her fantastic fifth album, This Ain’t the Way You Go Out, but none of it makes sense without the context of the life-changing and medically mystifying experience that was its catalyst.
After her tour behind 2019 album No Words Left finished almost exactly at the start of the pandemic, the singer planned to take an extended period of time off, during which she became pregnant.
Five weeks after she gave birth to her first child in the summer of 2021, Rose began experiencing debilitating back pain, which she was told can be common for new mothers. With the pain continuing to worsen and doctors shrugging off her questions, Rose paid for an MRI scan that revealed she had fractured eight vertebrae and was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of pregnancy-related osteoporosis. A bone density scan was then undertaken. With severe osteoporosis indicated by a score of between -2 and -4, Rose’s result was -4.4. The condition — a weakening of the bones — is most common in women in their 60s and 70s; Rose’s diagnosis came at 32.
Esta historia es de la edición April/May 2024 de Rolling Stone UK.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 8500 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor ? Conectar
Esta historia es de la edición April/May 2024 de Rolling Stone UK.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 8500 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor? Conectar
Suitors and ties
Bridgerton's newest beau Victor Alli on joining the hit Netflix adaptation as the third season begins
Fran Healy
Travis’s lead singer on living in Los Angeles — the inspiration behind the band’s forthcoming album L.A. Times — streetfights with strangers and the unifying power of music
THE GREAT GADSBY
Comedy's enfant terrible Hannah Gadsby is relishing their anti-hero era
"I HAD TO GET OUT OF THIS DOOM HOLE"
After breaking every record imaginable with mega-hit 'Heat Waves', Glass Animals' Dave Bayley came back down to earth with a bump. Fourth album I Love You So F***ing Much sees him sift through the existential wreckage and focus on the fundamentals
SHABAKA'S NEW CALLING
“If I was still playing the sax, it’d be so easy,” the former Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming bandleader Shabaka Hutchings admits. On stunning debut album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, he turns to the flute and follows a spiritual compulsion to take a new path
GROWING PAINS AND HAPPY ENDINGS
OPENING HER HEART IN HER MUSIC HAS HELPED NELL MESCAL BUILD A DEDICATED FANBASE, BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM FOR HOPE TOO, THE 21-YEAR-OLD REVEALS, AS SHE RELEASES HER DEBUT EP
Star Rising
Currently starring in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Freya Allan broke through playing a princess in TV series The Witcher. But this 22-year-old has her feet firmly on the ground as she sets her sights on the future
The new Doctor Who is in!
How Ncuti Gatwa went from TV queer idol to making history on the iconic sci-fi show
Toni Sancho's manifesto of hope
The London-viaTrinidad singer discusses the power of music in helping her move past depression and uplift others
Making it up as they go along
Yeti funerals, big-name producers and a fiercely DIY ethic: we meet Mary in the Junkyard, the band making some of the best new rock music in the UK right now