Rolling_Stone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rolling Stone Rolling Stone Rolling Stone Rolling Stone logo Jann Wenner Will Dana Frequency Circulation Publisher First issue Company Based in Language Website Bi-monthly 1.4 million [1][2] Jann Wenner November 9, 1967 Wenner Media LLC New York City, NY English www.rollingstone.com Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner (who is still editor and publisher) and music critic Ralph J. Gleason. The magazine was known for its political coverage beginning in the 1970s, with the enigmatic and controversial gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Rolling Stone Magazine changed its format in the 1990s to appeal to younger readers,[3] often focusing on young television or film actors and pop music. This led to criticism that the magazine was emphasizing style over substance.[4] In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content, including in-depth political stories, and has seen circulation rise. John Lennon - RS 1 (November 9, 1967) How I Won the War Film Still era. However, the magazine distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time, such as Berkeley Barb, embracing more traditional journalistic standards and avoiding the radical politics of the underground press. In the very first edition of the magazine, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces." This has become the de facto motto of the magazine. In the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark for its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazine’s political section. Thompson would first publish his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death Beginnings in San Francisco To get the magazine off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7500 from his family members and from the family of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim.[5] Rolling Stone Magazine was initially identified with and reported on the hippie counterculture of the 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, such as Cameron Crowe, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O’Rourke. It was at this point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories, including that of the Patty Hearst abduction odyssey. One interviewer, speaking for large numbers of his peers, in saying that upon arriving at his college campus as a beginning student, he bought his first copy of the magazine, which he described as a "rite of passage".[4] The magazine’s influence in shaping culture in the 1970s was such that a song about its iconic status for musicians, "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (written by Shel Silverstein), became a hit single. Dr. Hook subsequently had their fictional wish come true, appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone in the forms of blogs.[8][9] Rolling Stone also publishes "Random Notes," a section which mixes photos with tabloid like headlines. Another regular feature printed next to "Random Notes" is the "Smoking Section" which is written by Austin Scaggs. Today, four decades since its founding by Jann Wenner, the Rolling Stone record reviews section is regarded by many sources as still one of the most influential around.[10] Beginning with issue #1064, October 30, 2008, Rolling Stone Magazine abandoned their large 10X12 format for a "classic magazine" shape which features glossy paper and "perfect binding". A self-adhesive mailing address label replaces the large white box previously on a bottom corner of the cover. Rolling Stone Magazine is printed on 100% carbon neutral paper.[11] A 4 dvd box which contains all published issues from November 1967 to spring 2007 is available. Today In the 1990s, facing competition from lad mags such as FHM, Rolling Stone reinvented itself, hiring former FHM editor Ed Needham. The magazine started targeting younger readers and offering more sex-oriented content, which often focused on sexy young television or film actors as well as pop music. At the time, some long-time readers denounced the publication, claiming it had declined from astute musical and countercultural observer to a sleek, superficial tabloid, emphasizing style over substance.[6] and the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time appeared in 2003, followed by 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock & Roll and The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. It also published The Rolling Stone Immortals, a list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. On May 7, 2006, Rolling Stone published its 1000th issue.[7] The cover, which was influenced by the cover art of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, featured some of the most influential celebrities whom RS had covered. Rolling Stone has evolved over the years, but certain features regarded as the hallmarks of the magazine have remained intact. Features such as "National Affairs" which has been around since the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Joe Klein, and "Rock and Roll" are still published in the magazine today. In a bid to react to the advent of the internet, these two features have been made available Criticism One major criticism of Rolling Stone Magazine involves its apparent generational bias toward the 1960s and 1970s. One critic referred to the Rolling Stone list of the "99 Greatest Songs" as an example of "unrepentant rockist fogeyism."[12] In further response to this issue, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former Rolling Stone editor, published a thorough critique of the magazine’s lists in a book called Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (ISBN 1-56980-276-9), which featured differing opinions from many younger critics.[13] Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg criticised the magazine saying that "Rolling Stone has essentially become the house organ of the Democratic National Committee."[14] Hunter S Thompson, in an article that can be found in his book Generation Of Swine, criticized the magazine for turning on marijuana even though the magazine embraced it in the 60s and 70s when Thompson was a frequent contributor. The website Shoutmouth criticised Rolling Stone Magazine for reconsidering many classic albums that it had previously dismissed. Examples of artists for whom this is the case include, among others, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Beach Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Nirvana and Radiohead. For example, Led Zeppelin was largely written off by Rolling Stone 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Magazine critics during the band’s most active years in the 1970s. However by 2006, a cover story on Led Zeppelin honored them as "the Heaviest Band of All Time."[15] A critic for Slate magazine described a conference at which the 1984 Rolling Stone Record Guide was scrutinized. As he described it, "The guide virtually ignored hip-hop and ruthlessly panned heavy metal, the two genres that within a few years would dominate the pop charts. In an auditorium packed with music journalists, you could detect more than a few anxious titters: How many of us will want our record reviews read back to us 20 years hence?"[12] Another example of this bias was that the album Nevermind, by Grunge band Nirvana, was given a three stars in its original review, despite being featured in the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003. The hire of former FHM editor Ed Needham further enraged critics who alleged that Rolling Stone had lost its credibility.[16] The 2003 "Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest guitarists of all time" article’s inclusion of only two female musicians forced Venus Zine to answer with their own list titled "The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time[17]. Rolling Stone • Deborah • Greil Dragon Marcus • Jancee Dunn • Paul • Joe Eszterhas Nelson • Timothy Ferris • P.J. • Ben FongO’Rourke Torres • David Fricke • Jann Wenner • Baron Wolman • Evan Wright In popular culture Rolling Stone is largely regarded as a predominant music promotional force in American culture, alongside the likes of MTV. It has been frequently referenced in other forms of media, such as in Cameron Crowe’s semiautobiographical film Almost Famous where Crowe’s character worked as a teenage reporter for the magazine and the cult classic music-oriented movie High Fidelity where becoming a Rolling Stone journalist is cited as the lead character’s ambition. In the 1985 movie Perfect, John Travolta made an appearance as a Rolling Stone journalist. Wenner had cameo roles in both Almost Famous and Perfect. In Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, the young heroine takes her story (of her very demonstrable psychic powers) to Rolling Stone. Because she is fleeing the governRolling Stone has maintained a website for ment, or rogue elements of it, the choice of many years, with selected current articles, Rolling Stone is a clever way of choosing a reviews, blogs, MP3s, and other features national venue respected by the growing such as searchable and free encyclopedic artyounger demographic that is also unlikely to icles about artists, with images and somecooperate with government censorship or times sound clips of their work. There are suppression of her story. also selected archival political and cultural The magazine also had made some of the articles and entries. The site also at one time most controversial covers in pop culture; eyehad an extensive message board forum. brows were raised when a then-17 year-old Britney Spears was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in a sexually suggestive Lolita-themed photo shoot which • Robert Altman • Erik • Rob triggered widespread speculation (denied by (photographer) Hedegaard Sheffield her representatives) that the singer had had • Michael • Joe Klein • Ralph breast implants. Another controversial cover Azerrad • Jon Steadman and, perhaps one of the magazine’s most • Lester Bangs Landau • Neil famous, is of Janet Jackson who was photo• Robert • Jerry Strauss graphed topless with hands covering her Christgau Hopkins • Matt breasts. • Brian • David Taibbi The Rick Griffin logo for Rolling Stone and Cookman LaChapelle • Hunter S. magazine cover were used as the basis for • Cameron • Annie Thompson promotional images for the film School of Crowe Leibovitz • Touré Rock. • Anthony • Steven • Peter At the end of The Wedding Singer, Drew DeCurtis Levy Travers Barrymore is reading a copy of Rolling Stone • Kurt Loder Website Famous staff 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rolling Stone (Issue 440, January 31, 1985) with Billy Idol on the cover, while going to Las Vegas with Glen on the plane. In the movie, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, copies of Rolling Stone are seen in a scene where Jack Black and Kyle Gass are contemplating what they need to be great musicians, and Gass notices that several great guitarists wield the same pick. In the movie Iron Man, Tony Stark is pictured on a fictional cover of Rolling Stone. In the movie Music and Lyrics, fictional Rolling Stone magazine reviews from various eras play a major role. In the video game Rock Band 2, players are recognized on Rolling Stone as Rock Immortals after beating the final song set. In the pilot episode of the CW series Gossip Girl, a fictional Rolling Stone cover story on "forgotten bands of the ’90s" is a repeatedly referenced plot point. Supermodel Gisele Bündchen, on September 2000 issue, was named the most beautiful girl in the world.[18] Britney Spears on the April 1999 cover of Rolling Stone Covers See also: List of celebrities who have appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine Some artists have graced the cover many times, some of these pictures going on to become iconic. The Beatles, for example, have appeared on the cover over thirty times, either individually or as a band.[19] The first ten issues featured the following: • Issue #1 – John Lennon • Issue #2 – Tina Turner • Issue #3 – The Beatles • Issue #4 – Jimi Hendrix, Donovan & Otis Redding • Issue #5 – Jim Morrison • Issue #6 – Janis Joplin • Issue #7 – Jimi Hendrix • Issue #8 – Monterey Pop Festival • Issue #9 – John Lennon & Paul McCartney • Issue #10 – Eric Clapton Lists Janet Jackson on the September 1993 cover of Rolling Stone Rolling Stone often publishes lists which include: • Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time • Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time • Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time • Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Songs of 2006 • Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time • The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time • Rolling Stone 100 Agents of Change Rolling Stone • Germany - Published in Germany since 1994 by Axel Springer AG. • India - Launched in March 2008 by MW Com, publisher’s of Man’s World Magazine. • Indonesia - Published in Indonesia since June 2005 by JHP Media. • Italy - Published in Italy since November 2003, first by IXO Publishing and now by Editrice Quadratum. • Japan - Launched in March 2007. • Mexico - Published by Prisa Internacional since 2002. • Russia - Published by Izdatelskiy Dom SPN since 2004. • Spain - Published by PROGRESA in Madrid, since 1999. • Turkey - Published since June 2006 by GD Gazete Dergi. Reference works • Rolling Stone Album Guide. Four editions with varying titles, c. 1979, 1983, 1992, 2004. • The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Random House, 1980. ISBN 0-394-73938-8 • Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. 1985. • Rolling Stone Cover-to-Cover: The First 40 Years. Bondi Digital Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0979526107 • George-Warren, Holly (2001). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Revised and Updated for the 21st Century). Pareles, Jon. Fireside. ISBN 978-0743201209. See also • The Rolling Stone Interview Notes International editions • Argentina - Published by Publirevistas S.A. since April 1998. • Australia - Began as a supplement 1969 in Go-Set magazine. It became a full title in 1972 and was published by Next Media Pty Ltd, Sydney until 2008. It is now published by ACP Magazines and is the longest running international edition. • Brazil - Published in Brazil since October 2006 by Spring Comunicações. • Chile - Published by Edu Comunicaciones until May 2003. Published by El Mercurio, since January 2006. • China - Rolling Stone in mainland China is licensed to One Media Group of Hong Kong and published in partnership with China Record Corporation. The magazine is in Chinese with translated articles and local content. • Colombia - Edited in Bogotá for Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Panama and Venezuela. • France - Launched 2002. This edition temporarily ceased in 2007 and was relaunched in May 2008 under license with 1633SA publishing group. [1] How to Pitch: Rolling Stone mediabistro.com Content [2] Rolling Stone celebrates 1,000 issues | Topeka Capital-Journal, The | Find Articles at BNET.com [3] ’ Citizen News Services (August 13, 2008). "Rolling Stone magazine goes down a size". ’Ottawa Citizen. Canwest Publishing Inc.. http://www.canada.com/ ottawacitizen/news/artslife/ story.html?id=ef35bad8-882d-4e55-860a-7bdfeeae4f Retrieved on 2009-02-12. [4] ^ Freedman, Samuel G. (Date TK, 2002). "Literary ’Rolling Stone’ sells out to male titillation". USA Today. http://www.samuelfreedman.com/ articles/culture/ust_rolling.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-12. [5] Weir, David; Salon people.com (April 20, 1999). "The evolution of Jann Wenner: How the ultimate ’60s rock groupie built his fantasy into a media empire". Wenner’s world. People Magazine. http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/ 04/20/wenner/print.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-12. [6] the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time|title=The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time|date= August 27, 2003 |publisher=Rolling 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stone Magazine|accessdate=2009-02-12}} [7] Rolling Stone: Our 1000th Issue [8] "National Affairs" Daily blog [9] "Rock and Roll" Daily blog • [10] O’Brien, Timothy L. (December 25, • 2005). "Will You Still Need Me, Will You • Still Read Me?". New York Times. • http://nytimes.com/2005/12/25/business/ yourmoney/25wenner.html. Retrieved on • 2009-02-12. • [11] "Editor’s Notes". #1064 (Rolling Stone Magazine): pp. # 16. October 30, 2008. • [12] ^ May 9, 2006. Does hating rock make you a music critic? Jody Rosen. Slate. • Article charging "RS" with "fogeyism." • [13] July 4, 2004. Idle worship, or revisiting • the classics. Jim DeRogatis. Chicago Sun• Times.Article discussing intention of book [14] Very Different Visions by Jonah Goldberg • [15] Documentation of attempt to change reviews • [16] The death of Rolling Stone - Salon.com [17] http://www.venuszine.com/articles/ • music/2575/ The_Greatest_Female_Guitarists_of_All_Time [18] The Most Beautiful Girl in the World : • Photos : Rolling Stone [19] Wenner, Jann (2006). "Our 1000th Issue • – Jann Wenner looks back on 39 years of Rolling Stone Rolling Stone" RollingStone.com (accessed September 21, 2006) External links Official Rolling Stone website The Official Jann S. Wenner Website Rolling Stone The 100 Best Songs of 2006 The Voice of America (Observer article, April 30, 2006) Rolling Stone cover gallery Rolling Stone 2003 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List at RollingStone.com 2004 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Greatest Rock & Roll guitarists Rolling Stone on Myspace Rolling Stone Turkey Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Read Me? Article from the New York Times, December 25, 2005 The Origins of Rolling Stone Article from The Daily Californian August 20, 2007 How Does It Feel Article from The Washington Post May 4, 2006 Revolutionary, wild, unpredictable- and that was just the writers Article from The Independent (London) May 10, 2006 Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone’s first Chief Photographer Rolling Stone, 2008, The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" Categories: Publications established in 1967, Music magazines, American magazines, Australian magazines, Italian magazines, Russian magazines, Turkish magazines, Indian magazines, PRISA, Monthly magazines This page was last modified on 21 May 2009, at 13:38 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. 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