The Return of ‘Almost Famous’

It’s all happening: In honor of the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous, we decided to bring William Miller’s fictional 1973 cover story on the band Stillwater to life, included in the new box set or the soundtrack [“Stillwater Runs Deep!,” RollingStone.com]. Real-life Rolling Stone writers Rob Sheffield, Christian Hoard,

Angie Martoccio, and David Browne, working with Cameron Crowe — “the enemy” himself — took the opening lines “I am flying high over Tupelo, Mississippi, with America’s hottest band . . . and we are all about to die” and turned it into one epic feature. Readers’ responses were incendiary. “I feel about this article the way the Tiffany’s guy feels about Cracker Jack prizes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” tweeted Mckinzie Andromeda. “This should win the Pulitzer,” added Carlos Adamez. For Steven Grade, 20 years was worth the wait: “I finally get to learn more about a midlevel band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom.”