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Stone : The Complete Covers by Fred Woodward (Editor),
Jann S. Wenner (Introduction), Holly George-Warren (Editor)
From
Mick Jagger, who holds the record for most appearances on the
cover, to Madonna, Beck, Jewel, and the Spice Girls, this one
provocative volume features all 728 covers from "Rolling
Stone", created by Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon, Francesco
Scavullo, Matt Groening, Garry Trudeau, and other popular and
innovative photographers and illustrators over the past 30 years.
Full color. This collection offers what it
advertises, 30 years of Rolling Stone covers, plus pithy
insights and glib vignettes. The covers tell as much about rock
history as the commentary from the expected cast of RS scribes and
hangers-on. Very early covers were in black-and-white, wrapping a
newsprint tabloid featuring articles and reviews redolent of smug,
anticommercial hipness. Over time, the attitude eroded, and color
covers featured fewer scruffy rockers and more magnificently
quaffed celebrities du jour. In short, the covers reflect the
drift of RS's focus from music to film, TV, politics, . . .
whatever. And still, the "book" is mostly rock 'n' roll.
Where else can one see Janet Jackson and Jennifer Anniston naked
and Bill Clinton and Woody Allen clothed (good editorial
decisions, those), always very well photographed? Buy this for the
flash and the history, and ignore anything Pete Townshend or Jann
Wenner has to say in it. Aging baby boomers will probably like it
most, but it should appeal to pop fans of all ages. Mike Tribby
 
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is the granddaddy of rock and roll magazines. It serves up the latest news in popular culture, music, celebrities, and politics. Each jam-packed issue includes music, film, and book reviews. With an unabashed eye, the magazine's writers go backstage and report on what's hot and up-and-coming in the music industry. With its musical savvy and humorous tone, Rolling Stone will amuse and edify you.
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By Clark Parsons, The Nashville Tennessean
Excerpt:
WHAT should we label Jann Wenner?
Until a month ago, Wenner, the noted founder and
publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, wore the public persona of a
dedicated husband and father.
What began as a Manhattan tempest is now
rippling out throughout the rest of the country over the very
public dissolution of Wenner's marriage and his current living
arrangement.
The fortysomething Wenner now resides with a
younger former model, who, by the way, is male.
The New York and national news media, which
you'd assume would casually brush the whole affair aside, are
still batting the story around. Some of the attention was due to
the way in which Wenner -- a self-made entrepreneur, a poster boy
for all that is good and bad about growing up a baby boomer --
tried desperately and unsuccessfully to keep the story from
becoming tabloid fodder. Many editors played along, sitting on the
story at first, which later caused charges from the gay community
of double standards.
One notable bit of coverage was part of the
gossip/society column in a recent New York Observer, which
detailed how Wenner awkwardly appeared in public at a recent party
with his new beau.
The account pointed out how many of the gay men
at the event gathered around Wenner, in what seemed like an effort
to make him uncomfortable with his new public identity as a gay
man, an identity that he wore like an albatross.
The big question remains unasked, however.
Here's a man who was married to his wife for more than 20 years,
during which time he was presumed or publicly heterosexual.
So if Wenner is now ``gay,'' what was he before?
Has he always been a bisexual? Or does his past regard for the
female form trap him somewhere between our definitions of ``true''
heterosexuality and homosexuality? Simply put, maybe the present
boundaries are too confining for human behavior...
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The evolution of Jann Wenner: How the ultimate
'60s rock groupie built his fantasy into a media empire.
By David Weir
Excerpt:
April 20, 1999 |
Just this much above the bustle of midtown Manhattan, feet propped
on a table, leaning back and grinning his infectious grin, Jann
Wenner is exactly where he wants -- and deserves -- to be: in the
midst of the bustle without necessarily having to rub any
shoulders he doesn't want to rub. In contrast, all around this
room and the ones adjoining are photos of him shoulder-to-shoulder
with his crowd -- Jann with Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bob Dylan;
Jann at the White House; Jann with Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright; Jann with the significantly taller Attorney General
Janet Reno ("I had to do that one. She's such a star").
Beyond the door to his office suite stretches
the bustling Wenner Media headquarters ("almost the size of a
football field," he says with characteristic immodesty),
where the young, the slender and the hip march about in platform
shoes performing the mundane tasks of running Jann's empire.
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