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Like a Rolling Stone : a memoir

Summary: "Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from Burning Man to the White House. Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest editor of his generation." His deeply personal memoir brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond. The age of rock and roll in an era of consequence will be considered one of the great watersheds in modern history. Wenner writes with the clarity of a journalist and an essayist. He takes us into the life and work of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. He was instrumental in the careers of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Leibovitz. His journey took him to the Oval Office with his legendary interviews with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, leaders to whom Rolling Stone gave its historic, full-throated backing. From Jerry Garcia to the Dalai Lama, Aretha Franklin to Greta Thunberg, the people Wenner chose to be seen and heard in the pages of Rolling Stone tried to change American culture, values, and morality. Like a Rolling Stone is a beautifully written portrait of one man's life, and the life of his generation"--Dust jacket flap.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316415194
ISBN: 0316415197
Physical Description: print
xv, 576 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: The last days -- Part one--Beginnings. Rainbow Road ; The school on the hill ; Berkeley ; Turn on, tune in, drop out ; London calling ; Jane -- Part two-- Rolling Stone. The first issue ; A family affair ; Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, and the naked Beatle ; A brief visit to planet New York ; Trans-Oceanic Comics Company ; Me and Boz, sittin' on Otis' porch ; Talking Bob Dylan ; Altamont and the end of innocence ; Helter skelter ; John Lennon and Hunter Thompson drop by ; Lennon remembers ; Putting together the home team ; The house on California Street ; A day in the life ; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ; The beast stirs in Big Sur ; Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ; Truman and Andy, Paul Bowles and Uncle Earl ; A wonder of American journalism ; From Elko to Egypt ; Farewell to Ralph J. Gleason ; Becoming bicoastal ; The scoop of the seventies -- Part three--The empire. The Big Apple ; John Belushi, incoming ; Out tenth anniversary ; Christmases with Jackie ; The dry heaves ; Asleep at the wheel ; The dream is over ; Fuck the NRA ; God has his hands full ; Diamond rash, limousine elbow ; The Hall of Fame ; The Bonfire of the Vanities ; The gift of God ; Yoko and the Gorbachevs ; My father's death ; Altitude adjustments ; The king and queen of pop ; Blue highways ; Bill Clinton and the three stooges ; A visit to the White House ; The death of Jackie Onassis ; Matt -- Part four--Settling down. Passages ; A visit from Jane ; The best magazine in the world ; Only the good die young ; All out for Al ; My city in ruins ; My private Idaho ; Watching the river flow ; Kerry loses ; Hunter Thompson, R.I.P. ; Hunter redux with Johnny Depp ; Magazine wars ; The say it's yer birthday ; The wheel of life ; Burning Man ; "Higher and higher" ; The runaway general ; The wrecking ball ; The road to Rio ; The million-pound shit hammer ; Bad moon rising ; The gathering storm -- Part five--Goodbye to all that. Selling Rolling Stone ; The road to recovery ; My last letter from the editor.