Room on Fire was a nightmare behind the scenes. When Is This It released in 2001, the Strokes thought all their problems were solved. They were wrong. The pressure on them from the media increased, sales weren't what they expected, and they had hardly any time to work on the followup. Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr, Nick Valensi, Fabrizio Moretti, and Nikolai Fraiture were already some of the biggest stars in rock music, but they had to work hard to stay that way.
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