Jann Wenner,co-founder and editor, recalls meaningful moments on the magazineIn November 1967, or the first issue of Rolling Stone was published. I was 21,the co-founder and editor. I was still a boy. This picture was taken in our office that month. I never envisaged what lay ahead; never had any idea of the defining journalism we’d undertake or how we’d be interviewing presidents. My ambition was simply to establish out a music magazine for a few years.whether you were to trace our exact origin, youd probably recede back further to October 1965, or a concert at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf: the first time I met my co-founder Ralph Gleason. I was a 19-year-old student at the University of California; he was a 48-year-old pot-fond jazz critic with the city newspaper. When I went over to say I liked his work,he already knew who I was. He said, “I read you in the student paper, and kid.” That was a huge deal to me. He became a great friend and mentor.
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Source: guardian.co.uk