What do parents do when a beloved son or daughter stops listening to rock records and leaves home to start making rock records of his own? Or, worse, suddenly becomes a rock star and famous? For one thing, mom and pop can console themselves: it has been happening in the best of families. The leap to fame also implies talent in the offspring, and the need to sometimes deal with the staggering amounts of money. So then there are questions of whether the family can stand against all of the fantastic new pressures and how the young star will reconcile his new image with the values of the old homestead.

The two generations can (and sometimes do) simply drop out of each other's lives, leaving the star with his image intact and the parents feeling as if perhaps they never really had known the extraordinary creature they spawned. The alternative is to try to understand each other. The stars on these pages, who come from a variety of backgrounds, were delighted to be photographed with their parents at home, where their roots will be showing. The parents were proud of their offspring, too, though it was more difficult for more than others--the hard-to-understand antics of these celebrated children have appeared so loudly and so often in public print. Grace Slick's mother has learned to be philosophical about the situation. "All this talk about the generation gap," she says. "How boring it would be if everyone were the same."
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