Rolling Stone Magazine was founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To begin with, the content was rock and roll related, with coverage of things that artists were doing, new releases, etc. Hunter S. Thompson covered political news, which I thought was really interesting to learn about. The information about how the magazine was founded and how they got their ideas for articles and interviews was really interesting to me. This book is written by one of the founders, Jann Wenner, and details the magazine's life up to the point of sale.

The magazine has covered some really interesting topics. There was coverage about the Altamont Free Concert (1969; I encourage you to look this up), the Charles Manson saga, NASA missions, all sorts of Presidency issues, and other domestic events. I used to have a subscription to this magazine, but I canceled it after I received the one with the Boston Marathon bomber on the cover. (I thought it was disgusting and chose to no longer support the magazine. I do not feel that such a vile person should have been on the cover, which is my opinion, and if you are fine with that, okay, not my business.) There have been some really neat covers, and some really good articles over the years. One of the most explosive things that I can recall was when the magazine published excerpts from the book about the Afghanistan War, written by Michael Hastings, who later died from not so natural causes. Most recently, they published an article about how there were no hospital beds due to people overdosing on livestock wormer (endorsed by President Trump). The hospital mentioned said that was a blatant lie, but I am not shocked to learn that journalism is biased or untruthful, especially since I have become an adult.

I picked this book up at the library this past week, and I am so glad that I did. I had this on my to buy list, but I would have been disgusted with myself if I had wasted my money on it. I expected a lot of name dropping in this book, because why not. If you spend your career around big names, you are going to mention big names. That part wasn't disturbing to me. The author did, however, let his ego come right on through in this memoir. I didn't care for it, but that is his right to do with his memoir. I did also feel a bit out of touch, being a child of the late 80s, I didn't really relate to a lot of the people mentioned in the first half of the book. I do not really enjoy that era of music either. I thought that this book would be a really neat read for the simple fact that I could learn about the mag's foundation and processes, and I was not disappointed in that aspect. Almost 600 pages was a bit tedious for me to read about this topic and about this person that I only had a passing interest in. I suppose I made a bad choice in selecting a book for myself this time around, but if you wish to read it or think it is interesting, do not let my negativity stop you.