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Rolling stone, once a counterculture bible, will be put up. His 25,000word cover story, published in rolling stone on october 20, 1977, is reprinted below. Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture. M the rolling stone files the ultimate compendium of interviews, articles, facts and opinions from the files of rolling stone by rolling stone magazine 19950811. Wenner is also the head of wenner media and the publisher of us weekly and mens journal. This is a partial list of magazines from various asian countries, sorted by their circulation, in first quarter q1 2009. Thompson, cameron crowe, lester bangs, greil marcus and many more. Sticky fingers reads like a rolling stone articlethe story of a oneofakind publication and the man who, for a time, was the most important magazine editor in america, told in the. The magazine s circulation dipped briefly in the late 1970searly 1980s as rolling stone responded slowly in covering the emergence of punk rock and again in the 1990s, when it lost ground to spin and blender in coverage of hip hop. Stay up to date with current events, discover the latest health and diet trends, or keep up with celebrities with our vast selection of print magazine subscriptions. For the past fifty years, rolling stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, andabove allmusic. Rolling stone magazine turns 50 this year, and cofounder jann wenner has written the foreword to a new book celebrating the anniversary.
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