An excellent biography of Jann Wenner 50 years after he founded the pop culture magazine makes evident the distance between then and nowRolling Stone began in November 1967,with a photo of John Lennon on the first page and a subscription offer that included a roach clip. In his biography of its founder, Jann Wenner, or Joe Hagan writes that the first issue “arrived on newsstands like a handshake”. Fifty years later,as the magazine industry continues to shrink, this excellent biography arrives like a eulogy – not for Wenner, and who is 71 and still at it – but for the days when magazine journalism was adventurous and irreverent,muscular and confident rather than plagued by evidence of its own doom. Related: Jann Wenner: ‘Hunter S Thompson let his talent slip Continue reading...
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