Jann Wenner not happy with new "tawdry" biography

Maybe Rolling Stone will publish a list of the Top 100 Biographies...

 

Here’s hoping the photo section of the book also features Jann aerobicizing.

 

And Karen Silkwood and many others. Rolling Stone was essential reading for me in the '60s and '70s. It did great investigative journalism and its writers were stars. The magazine is nothing like it used to be but what is? I'm looking forward to reading this book.

 

Rolling Stone has meant nothing to me for a very long time. Even during the glory days, I enjoyed other music magazines more as they were about the music and the artists and not that caught up in themselves.

All this Wenner drama is kinda tiresome. In the end you reap what you sow.

 

But the Beach Boys are BOSS!

 

I don't think Rolling Stone's great work ended in the 60's or 70's, IMO, it was probably the late 1990's to the 2000's. That's when the music changed and so did the magazine.

 

This is the kind of information I was looking for. Did Jann write for the magazine at all?

 

I really think the last peak was in the mid 90s or so. It had Courtney Love on the cover, but includes ‘Ambush at Fort Bragg’ by Tom Wolfe and a chunk of Hunter Thompson’s ‘Polo is My Life.’

 

I am with you. There weren't many other places to get the information RS provided.

 

Sometimes. He'd write editorials and do interviews. I think he also might have done the occasional album review.

 

Same here about 7 years ago. Nobody wanted them. Had to load the trunk of the car, then fill half of a dumpster.
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Jann Wenner sucks. That is all I got.

 

For me, writers like Cameron Crowe, Ben Fong-Torres, Mikael Gilmore, Charles M. Young, Ralph J. Gleason, Lester Bangs, Joe Eszterhas, P.J. O'Rourke and Hunter S. Thompson were as big stars as the people they were writing about.

 

"Corporate magazines still suck".

 

This is one of the few threads I've read where so many people agree with each other for the most part. I'm enjoying this greatly.
Popcorn for everybody! My treat.


Who's buying the beer?

 

I'm not Subscribing.

 

Sure, Flipper.
How do you know the reviews are there if you never read it?
And reading it online is still reading Rolling Stone, so stop kidding yourself.

 

Jan needs to get his priorities straight...funny how he can dish it out but can't take it...ain't that always the way...

 

AHAHAHA!

 

I'll buy the Coca Cola!

 

I was an avid reader of Rolling Stone until the early 80’s when it started to become unreadable. Besides the nauseating fawning over celebrities and rock stars, there were so many ads you couldn’t find the editorial content. The move to NY was the beginning of the end.

I have no interest in Jann and would not read any book about him. I just tried to read that excerpt about his relationship with Lennon and it it was a snooze-fest.

As Colorful magazine publishers go he is no William Randolph Hearst or even Hugh Hefner.

 

I'm a MOJO man, myself---fabulous, erudite English rock snobbery.

 

Really? Not the biggest Beatles fan, but it was news to me that Yoko had asked Paul to speak to John about a reconciliation.
Never really had put together that Lennon used Wenner and RS to cement the breakup of the Beatles.

Don't much like Wenner and some of the things he's done, but he has run a magazine dedicated to popular music, liberal causes, and youth issues for close to 50 years. So someones reading it.

What I don't get is this I hate it, I don't read it, yet I know all about it, and can't wait to tell everybody what I think about something I don't care about. I just don't get that about this Forum.

 

Not too many people care enough about Rolling Stone to write positive or negative opinions about it under usual circumstances. The trigger for this commentary is the "potential" Wenner biography. If it wasn't for that, or the upcoming sale, it would be crickets.

 

It was all downhill after Ralph Gleason died.