The Strokes - Is This It with Steven Hyden

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Join us to go back 25 years to the release of The Strokes debut album Is This It. Steven’s new book Is This It: The Never-Ending Rise and Fall of the Strokes is out now in the US & also here in the UK. The story begins when future Stroke frontman Julian Casablancas meets future bassist Nikolai Fraiture meet as kids. They hold a shared interest in music as they grow up before Julian is sent to Switzerland to attend a boarding school where he meets guitar player Albert Hammond Jr. They later reconnect in New York as Julian is putting together a band. The lineup comes together with Albert becoming the final member to join. The first Strokes gig takes place at The Spiral in Manhattan in…