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THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEWS : THE 1980's

By the Editors of Rolling Stone

Introduction by Kurt Loder

Edited by Sid Holt

Published by St. Martin's Press , New York 1989

This book is a Large Soft Cover in fine condition with 352 pages and full page black and white photographs.

CONTENTS 

Introduction by Kurt Loder

1. Pete Townshend, 1982 by Kurt Loder

2. Bruce Springsteen, 1984 by Kurt Loder

3. Keith Richards, 1981 by Kurt Loder

4. Bill Murray, 1984   by Timothy Crouse

5. Steve Martin, 1982  by Ben Fong-Torres

6. Elvis Costello, 1982  by Greil Marcus

7. Neil Young, 1988   by James Henke

8. Mick Jagger, 1985  by Christopher Connelly

9. Joan Baez, 1983  by Kurt Loder

10. Bob Dylan, 1984  by Kurt Loder

11. Desmond Tutu, 1985 by Marc Cooper & Greg Goldin

12. Jack Nicholson, 1986  by Fred Schruers

13. Sam Phillips, 1986  by Elizabeth Kaye

14. The Everly Brothers, 1986  by Kurt Loder

15. Paul McCartney, 1986  by Kurt Loder

16. Bill Graham, 1985   by Michael Goldberg

17. Eric Clapton, 1985  by Robert Palmer

18. Bo Diddley, 1987 by Kurt Loder

19. Robert Plant, 1988  by David Fricke

20. Stanley Kubrick, 1987  by Tim Cahill

21. Woody Allen, 1987  by William E. Geist

22. Billy Joel, 1986  by Anthony DeCurtis

23. Clint Eastwood, 1985  by Tim Cahill

24. Neil Diamond, 1988  by David Wild

25. John Cougar Mellencamp, 1986  by David Fricke

26. Tip O'Neill, 1986  by William Greider

27. David Bowie, 1987  by Kurt Loder

28. Michael Douglas, 1986 & 1988 by Lynn Hirschberg & Fred Schruers

29. Sting, 1988 by David Fricke

30. Robin Williams, 1988 by Bill Zehme

31. The Edge, 1988  by James Henke

32. David Byrne, 1988  by Robert Farris Thompson

33. Roy Orbison, 1988  by Steve Pond

34. Keith Richards, 1988  by Anthony DeCurtis

FROM THE COVER 

The Rolling Stone 1980's Interviews Pete Townshend • Bruce Springsteen , Keith Richards • Bill Murray • Steve Martin , Elvis Costello • Neil Young • Mick Jagger , Joan Baez • Bob Dylan • Bishop Desmond Tutu, Jack Nicholson • Sam Phillips, The Everly Brothers • Paul McCartney, Bill Graham • Eric Clapton •  Bo Diddley, Robert Plant • Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen • Billy Joel • Clint Eastwood , Neil Diamond • John Cougar Mellencamp , Tip O'Neill • David Bowie • Sting • Michael Douglas , Robin Williams •  The Edge, David Byrne • Roy Orbison





THE ROLLING STONE FILM READER: THE BEST FILM WRITING

FROM ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE 1967 to 1996


Edited by Peter Travers


Published by Pocket Books , New York 1996 First Edition

This book is a Large Soft Cover in fine condition with 436 pages and full page black and white photographs.


About this book == From Easy Rider to Pulp Fiction. Rolling Stone magazine has captured the genius and energy of decades of maverick filmmaking & its impact on two generations of readers.

Brimming with attitude, vitality, fun, individuality, and innovation, this unique anthology uncovers the stories behind the movies' biggest and most creative players in an ultra-revealing style. Includes Rolling Stone's in-depth articles on and exclusive interviews with actors and filmmakers such as Marlon Brando, Peter Fonda , Jane Fonda, Jim Carrey, Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, John Travolta, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford , Lenny Bruce , Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Spike Lee, Sean Penn, Sharon Stone, Steven Spielberg, Paul Newman, Winona Ryder , Woody Allen,  Denzel Washington, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Kubrick , Tim Burton, Oliver Stone & Quentin Tarantino and many many more….


On-The-Set pieces covering landmark films including Peter Bogdanovich 's The Last Picture Show, Milos Forman 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, George Lucas 's Star Wars and Cameron Crowe 's grunge epic Singles illustrated with The magazine's unique photographs and movie covers, including many classic s from such renowned photographers as Mary Ellen Mark, Albert Watson, and Mark Seliger.


Rolling Stone's list of one hundred must-see movies that embody the era, and much more. Take the best seat in the house for the legacy of film - a living portrait that features the most cutting-edge and provocative artists of our time. " According to Peter Travers, editor of The Rolling Stone Film Reader: The Best Film Writing from Rolling Stone Magazine, the magazine's editor, Jann S. Wenner, declared at the outset that his "publications would cover not only music but also 'the things and attitudes that the music embraces' ", and that included film. Through the years, the film reviews and interviews by a talented group of writers have followed Wenner's call "to cut through the myth and the nonsense." Travers's lists of 50 maverick and 50 rebel films complete the package. 



THE BEST OF ROLLING STONE : 25 YEARS OF JOURNALISM ON THE EDGE

Edited by Robert Love

Publisher: Doubleday, New York: 1993 First Softcover Edition. This book is a thick sift cover in very good condition with previous owner inscription. This book has 509 pages.

40 of the magazine's best articles, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe's Post-Orbital Remorse --the basis for The Right Stuff--this dazzling compilation of some of the best journalism of the last quarter century is also a behind-the-scenes history of the making of this maverick magazine.

CONTENTS

Introduction by JANN S. WENNER

Preface by ROBERT LOVE

"Toking Down with the MC5" by ERIC EHRMANN: A Detroit quintet set out to fuse rock and radical politics. A student journalist from Cleveland went to observe the experiment. RS 25 JANUARY 4, 1969

'The Rolling Stones on Tour" by ROBERT GREENFIELD: Oh, to be young, fancy-free and working in the London bureau of ROLLING STONE when Mick Jagger agrees to let you travel with the band.          RS 801  APRIL 15, 1971

"Up the Mountain" by ROBERT PALMER: Brian Jones and William Burroughs told tales of the ancient trance music played by the Master Musicians of Jajouka.  Our reporter got caught up in the spell.          RS 93  OCTOBER 14, 1971

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by HUNTER S. THOMPSON: A savage return to the heart of the American Dream , A lost memo from the Wrong Desk ... Warm and dry at the Bates Motel. The meaning of my Art.   RS 95/NoVEMBER 11, 1971

"Naked Lunch Box" by ROBIN GREEN: David Cassidy, the Number 1 teen idol of the early Seventies, had his heart set on a cover story. So we gave it to him.   RS 108 MAY II , 1972

"Post-Orbita! Remorse" by TOM WOLFE: They were cagey souls, all right, but the reporter hung in until they took him up into the capsule and laid out the secrets of the brotherhood. But first there was that rack-jobbers' convention.    RS 125  JANUARY 4, 1973

"Ask a Marine" by DAVID HARRIS: The assignment brought them together: the writer who had been jailed for defying the draft and the war hero who would never walk again.  RS 139  JULY 19, 1973 

 'The Wild Side of Paradise" by MICHAEL THOMAS: An Australian journalist and former child radio star-found himself in Jamaica just as reggae was starting to catch a fire.  RS 139  JULY 19, 1973

"King of the Goons" by JOE ESZTERHAS: How a Hell's Angels shoot-out led a Midwestern newspaperman to the cosmic giggle and the pleasures of getting naked, watching whales and filing. 37,000 words on Evel Knievel.     RS 173  NOVEMBER 7, 1974

"The Search for the Secret Pyramid" by KEN KESEY: We knew the Merry Prankster could dig up something in Egypt, but Keez needed a guide for this trip. Enter Charlie Perry, a.k.a. Smokestack el Ropo.    RS 180   FEBRUARY 13, 1975

"Malignant Giant" by HOWARD KOHN: Karen Silkwood's death exposed corruption in the nuclear-power industry. Our reporter broke the story, and for six years he fought to make sure she wasn't forgotten.   RS 183   MARCH 27, 1975

"Tania's World" by HOWARD KOHN AND DAVID WEIR: Everybody in America, including the FBI, was looking for kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. It took a couple of former college radicals to get the inside story of her life underground.   RS 198  OCTOBER 23, 1975

"Her Horses Got Wings, They Can Fly" by DAVE MARSH: She was a factory girl, a coal stove. visionary and the self-proclaimed scion of Rimbaud and the Ronettes. Well, that's what Patti Smith wanted the world to think back then.       RS 203   JANUARY 1, 1976

"The Method of His Madness" by CHRIS HODENFIELD: What did it take to face down the Great Brando at the height of his Marlonosity? A large dose of hipness or just plain balls?  

RS 213  MAY 20, 1976

"Notes on a Native Son" by JOE KLEIN: Arlo Guthrie talked about his legendary father, his childhood, God and doubt to a visitor who arrived at his door through a twist of fate. RS 234  MARCH 10, 1977

"Dolly Parton" by CHET FLIPPO: It was a classic triangle: the reporter, the star and the weight lifter. Wait, we forgot to mention the photographer.    RS 246   AUGUST 25, 1977

"Blue Hawaii" by GRElL MARCUS: Woodstock, Altamont and the murder of John Lennon-a-breaking news stories that hit us on deadline resulted in some of our best work. After Elvis's death, one critic, far from home, had to try to understand.    RS 248   SEPTEMBER 22, 1977

"Son of Samurai" by CHARLES M. YOUNG: Our writer taught John Belushi about punk rock and the denial of death. Belushi taught our writer not to take shit from anyone.  RS 271   AUGUST 10, 1978

"Aerosmith's Train Keeps a Rollin'' by DAISANN McLANE: Words were cheap and the bands gave a reporter great access back in the high-rollin' rock subculture of the late Seventies. A report from the private jet.    RS 285  FEBRUARY 22 , 1979

"The Dog Is Us" by MARCELLE CLEMENTS: You're in your dorm room. You're stoned. A dog walks in. Wow. You can't stop watching him. He's incredibly ridiculous. You start laughing. Now it's years later: you get high again, and it's no fun. What happened? RS 377   SEPTEMBER 2, 1982

"Michael Jackson" by GERRI HIRSHEY: It was that rarest of pop music moments: Michael Jackson, home alone and ready to talk to a reporter for hours. There was one condition, though: you had to feel muscles.      RS 389  FEBRUARY 17 , 1983

"The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis" by RICHARD BEN CRAMER: "You scared of me?" Lewis once asked his wife's sister. "You should be. Why do you think they call me the Killer?"    RS 416  MARCH 1, 1984

"Sole Survivor" by KURT LODER: In the midst of one of the great comebacks in pop music history, Tina Turner broke her silence about her abusive marriage.         

RS 432  OCTOBER 11, 1984

"Kids in the Dark" by DAVID BRESKIN: After the drug-inspired murder of a teenager and the suicide of one of the killers, how do you get their terrified friends to break the silence?  

RS 435  NOVEMBER 22, 1984

"The Plague Years" by DAVID BLACK: Even before we knew what to call it, AIDS had the power to change forever a generation's way of thinking about sex and life and death. RS 446  APRIL 25 , 1985

"Death of a Cheerleader" by RANDALL SULLIVAN: In the Eighties, winning was everything. Especially in Orinda, California, where a kid would do anything to avoid being called a loser.  

RS 452/453  JULY 18-AUGUST 1, 1985

"Fear of Frying" by TIM CAHILL: Many and extreme were the reasons for a man to volunteer to hike across Death Valley. John Wayne Gacy was but one of them.  RS 457  SEPTEMBER 26 , 1985

"400 Years in a Convent, 50 Years In a Whorehouse" by P.J. O'ROURKE: Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos was in trouble, so we sent our correspondent straight to Manila. He got the scoop from whores, thugs and the city jailer.   RS 471  APRIL 10, 1986

"Back in Black" by DAVID FRICKE: In the late eighties, a group of young Black musicians fought for their right to rock. And the critic was on hand for the next big thing.  RS 509   SEPTEMBER 24, 1987

"False Messiah" by LAWRENCE WRIGHT: When Jimmy Swaggart was caught with a prostitute, it was just another lost battle in his lifelong struggle to save his soul. RS 530/531  JULY 14-28, 1988

"Nowhere to Run" by ELLEN HOPKINS: Renee Linton took all the right steps to save herself from an abusive, battering husband. Our story traced the failure of the system that left her to die.  

RS 550  APRIL 20, 1989

"The Devil and John Holmes" by MIKE SAGER: John Holmes was a porn star. Eddie Nash was a drug lord. Their association ended in one of the most brutal mass murders in the history of Los Angeles.   

RS 554  JUNE 15, 1989

"Paradise Lost" by TOM HORTON: The Exxon oil spill in Alaska was a crime against the environment, but it may have caused greater damage to the human spirit.  RS 567/568  DECEMBER 14-28, 1989

"Johnny Clegg's War on Apartheid" by SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN: South Africa's best-known musician has dedicated his life to crossing the lines separating white and black. RS 574   MARCH 22, 1990

"Warren Beatty" by BILL ZEHME: When you're interviewing the last movie star, it's not what he says that matters but how he doesn't say it.   RS 579   MAY 31, 1990

"Anarchy in the U.S.S.R.?" by ANTHONY DECURTIS: Gorbachev had lost control. The Soviet economy was brain dead, the Party primed to self-destruct. An eye-witness account of real life in Russia in the waning days of communism. RS 582/583   JULY 12-26, 1990

"The Lonesome Drifter" by WILLIAM GREIDER: The real Washington scandal of the Eighties? Ronald Reagan didn't care about leading the country. So why did we love him like we did? 

RS 495  MARCH 12, 1987

Contributors      

THE ROLLING STONE ENVIRONMENTAL READER

Essays by P.J. O'Rourke , William Greider, Don Henley, E. L. Doctorow, Robert Bly, Tom Horton, Mark Hertsgaard,

Bill McKibben, Tom Hayden, Howard Kohn, Winifred Gallagher, and Bill Gifford

FOREWORD BY  JANN WENNER

Published by Island Press Washington, D.C. / Covelo, California  1992 First Soft Cover Edition

This book is a soft cover in near fine condition with 271 pages , Index.


CONTENTS

Foreword by Jann S. Wenner

I. How We Address Our Environmental Problems

1. Covering the World; Ignoring the Earth / Mark Hertsgaard

2. The Greenhouse Affect / P J. O'Rourke

II. The Dirty Politics of the Environment

3. The Dirty Politics of the Environment / William Greider

4. America's Worst Polluter / Howard Kohn

5. Whitewash: Is Congress Conning Us on Clean Air? / William Greider

III. Rain Forests

6. Recall of the Wild / Winifred Gallagher

7. Power Play Endangers Hawaii's Rain Forest / Bill McKibben

8. Rain Forest Journal / Tom Hayden

9. Milken, Junk Bonds and Raping Redwoods / Bill McKibben

IV. Anatomy of a Disaster

10. Paradise Lost / Tom Horton

V. Power of the People

11. The Green Giant / Tom Horton

12. The Greening of the Golden Arches / Bill Gifford

VI. Working for Tomorrow

13. Fields of Dreams: Old Farming Is New Again / Howard Kohn

14. An Interview with David Brower / Bill McKibben

15. Heaven Is Under Our Feet: Voices for Walden Woods / Don Henley, E. L. Doctorow and Robert Bly

Index


FROM THE COVER  === THROUGH THE YEARS, Rolling Stone magazine has published numerous articles that reflect a growing concern about the environment. Now, for the first time, the best of these essays are available in one volume, The Rolling Stone Environmental Reader. Written by leading journalists and environmentalists, this work exemplifies the strengths of Rolling Stone outstanding journalism tempered with a healthy scepticism toward today's power brokers and serves as a thought-provoking overview of the state of the environment.

Topics discussed include media coverage of environmental issues, the US government crisis, and the implications of the wholesale destruction of the rain forests.

This volume clearly demonstrates why Rolling Stone has been and continues to be one of America's most thought-provoking and influential magazines, and provides valuable insight into the past and future of the environmental crisis.

Excerpts from selected essays: "I do think it's important for the people who want to lead not to appear too oddball about it. Now, I'm an oddball telling people not to be odd-balls. If you're going to be an oddball, wear a three-piece suit and a tie now and then!" — DAVID BROWER, founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute, on environmental leadership, from "David Brower: The Rolling Stone Interview" by Bill McKibben

 "I think that a great deal of the spiritual groping and confusion in our society stems from the fact that we have strayed so far from our roots in the land. We have distanced ourselves from contact that we once had on a regular basis with the natural cycle of birth, death, decay and rebirth."  DON HENLEY, from Heaven is Under Our Feet: A Book for Walden Woods

"Well, nuts (and berries and fiber) to you, you shrub huggers. It's time we in the industrialized nations admitted what safe, comfortable, and fun-filled lives we lead. If we don't, we will cause irreparable harm to the disadvantaged peoples of the world. They're going to laugh themselves to death listening to us whine." — P. J. O'ROURKE on Earth Day 1990, from "The Greenhouse Affect".

REVIEWS  === It's hard to believe that just 25 years ago Rolling Stone began life as a small alternative magazine in a San Francisco loft. Today, it's noted not only for its rock-and-roll stories but also for its incisive, in-depth coverage of serious issues. This collection gathers the best of Rolling Stone 's ``green'' articles, written by such noted journalists and environmentalists as William Greider, P.J. O'Rourke, and Bill McKibben. Divided into six sections, the reader offers provocative perspectives on various environmental problems.

McKibben's fascinating ``Milken, Junk Bonds, and Raping Redwoods'' recounts the little-known but devastating effects one junk bond deal had on California's redwood forests. Tom Horton's powerful ``Paradise Lost'' examines in extensive detail the causes and consequences of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. However, some of the essays are weaker than others. Tom Hayden's ``Rain Forest Journal'' is an account of his travels to the celebrity-infested Amazon jungle, where he encounters fellow celebrity Tom Brokaw. Still, this collection will appeal to readers interested in a general overview of ecological issues.

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE : THE UNCENSORED HISTORY

By Robert Draper

Published by Doubleday, New York 1990  First Edition

This book is a HARDCOVER in near fine condition with 389 pages, index.

 The dust jacket is in very good condition ( some faint crease marks on back of DJ).


CONTENTS 

AUTHOR'S NOTE

PROLOGUE

PART 1 = They Danced Beautifully

1. "THE FREE-EST GENERATION THIS COUNTRY HAS SEEN"

2. BOY'S LIFE

3. "YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO"

4. ROLLING THE STONE UPHILL

5. SCRIBES OF A SOUND

6. "IT WAS LIKE BALLING FOR THE FIRST TIME"

7. THEY DIED HORRIBLY

PART 2 = `A Goddamned Miracle Every Two Weeks"

8. JANN WENNER, HIP CAPITALIST

9. HUNTER S. THOMPSON

10. GREATNESS

11. THE ENDLESS BOOGIE

12. THE BIG LEAGUES

13. THE UNIDENTIFIED MAN

PART 3 = Malaise

14. BIG CITY OF DREAMS

15. A FINAL ROAR

16. CAMELOT ABANDONED

PART 4 = A Gathering of Moss

17. WHEN THE MUSIC DIDN'T MATTER

18. PERCEPTION / REALITY

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

FROM THE COVER  By 1967, it was unavoidable the youth of America had created a viable, thriving, anarchic culture that bore no relation to anything that had preceded it. One magazine would capture this movement and the frenetic times that surrounded it in a voice that spoke to that culture, not at it. It became legendary for its commitment to the music, for the stellar cast of critics and journalists it spawned, and for the total lack of bullshit between its covers. This was Rolling Stone.

 

What was going on inside the Rolling Stone offices was just as wild and unpredictable. This was not the usual collection of professionals battling deadlines to lay out fashion spreads or recipe collections.

This was a motley band of rebels, outcasts, and loners, fiercely independent scribes with nothing in common save a belief in the power of music and the ideals it represented.

Yet out of this sex, drugs, and rock & roll madness came something legendary: an inspired chaos that somehow managed to produce, every two weeks without fail, one of the most important magazines of our time.

Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History is the first complete, detailed, accurate, and inside account of Rolling Stone's turbulent, colorful history. It recounts in explicit detail the whacked-out fun and games, the major weirdness, and the plain hard work that went on behind the scenes. Inside you'll meet the mythical master of Gonzo journalism, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson; the reviewer who went on to manage Bruce Springsteen,

Jon Landau; the scores of young contributors who went on to brilliant careers, such as Greil Marcus, Annie Leibovitz, Timothy White, Dave Marsh, and many others; as well as the musicians, politicos, and other assorted lunatics who stud-and litter the magazine's history. Always at center stage is the manic, maniacal mogul Jann S. Wenner. Robert Draper draws a fascinating portrait of this colorful, complicated man, following him from the periphery of the Berkeley music scene in the early sixties, through his founding of the magazine on an even shorter shoestring than Hugh Hefner's, to his eventual emergence as a notoriously manipulative, media-conscious press baron and power broker. There's never been a magazine like Rolling Stone. And Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History is the first book to do justice to the story of its long, strange trip.

ROLLING STONE ALBUM GUIDE : THE COMPANION VOLUME TO 25 YEARS OF ESSENTIAL ROCK

Edited by EDITED BY ANTHONY DECURTIS, JAMES HENKE AND HOLLY GEORGE-WARREN

Published by Random House New York  1992 This book is a soft cover in very good condition with 342 pages , Index.  

Reviews, ratings of all the bands and all their recordings.

EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION  This completely new version of The ROLLING STONE Album Guide is the product of two complementary aspirations. The first is to provide a first-rate consumer guide for fans who want knowledgeable assistance as they explore styles of music or the work of artists with whom they are wholly or partially unfamiliar. The second is to provide, in addition to recommendations of specific albums, a critical overview of artists' careers, so that a rich understanding of the music can become part of the listener's enjoyment.

That second goal means that, as they flip through the pages of the Album Guide, readers will hopefully find unanticipated pleasures, signposts that will send them off in directions they otherwise might not have taken. Unlike so much critical writing about rock & roll these days, the entries in this book assume that readers are intelligent and interested, that music and ideas about music are important elements in their lives. The book also takes a broad-minded approach to the worth of and the ability of all people to appreciate all types of music. If fans of My Bloody Valentine find themselves absorbed in the essay about Dinah Washington, or if fanatic Beatlemaniacs are gripped by the Public Enemy piece, the most idealistic purposes of the Album Guide will have been fully realized. Astonishingly, the entire Album Guide was written by four critics, the hardest-working men in show business: Mark Coleman, J. D. Considine, Paul Evans and David McGee.

All longstanding contributors to ROLLING STONE'S record review section, they bring to the Guide both specific areas of expertise and the ability to write in informed and sympathetic ways about many types of music. Broadly speaking, their assignments were based on decades: McGee' handled artists of the Fifties and earlier; Evans tackled the Sixties; Coleman concentrated on the Seventies; and Considine covered the period from the Eighties to the present. Beyond that chronological breakdown, each writer took on subjects outside his focus, either to make a point about certain artists and their relation to particular period styles-or for the sheer fun of it. The decision to have four writers do the entire Guide-as opposed to the more than fifty who contributed to the earlier versions resulted from a desire to achieve a greater consistency of voice and tone in the book, thereby making it more valuable as a critical reference. The idea is that even casual readers will eventually establish a relationship with each of the four critics and develop a feel for their perspectives. That will better enable readers to determine how completely they abide the writers' opinions. One person's classic may well be another's disaster, after all, and knowing what a critic's criteria are makes it easier to know when that's the case.

Some general guidelines should be kept in mind when reading the Guide. In all instances, the book attempts to focus on albums that are in print and possible to find (as of Spring 1992). In some cases, usually at the discretion of the individual writer, out-of-print albums are listed in the discography or discussed in the accompanying essay. When that happens, the album will be referred to in the text as "out of print" or "deleted." Readers should  be aware that out-of-print albums are sometimes possible to find in secondhand shops or even regular record stores; that a company has stopped producing an album does not mean that every copy of it has disappeared from the market. Also, in the age of CD reissues, innumerable albums are being brought back into print. If a description of a deleted album catches your eye, it may well be worth your time to seek it out. Etc, Etc. & more.

MORE ABOUT Rolling Stone is a magazine published every two weeks that focuses on politics and popular culture. In 1967, Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco, California, by Jann Wenner – who is still the magazine's chief editor – and music critic, Ralph J. Gleason. Rolling Stone was known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by the enigmatic and controversial gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. This led to criticism that the magazine was emphasizing style over substance. In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content, including in-depth political stories. It also has expanded content to include coverage of financial and banking issues. As a result, the magazine has seen its circulation increase and its reporters invited as experts to network television programs of note.

After years of declining readership, the magazine experienced a major resurgence of interest and relevance with the work of two young journalists in the late 2000s: Michael Hastings and Matt Taibbi. In 2005, Dana Leslie Fields, former Publisher of Rolling Stone, who had worked at the Magazine for 17 years, was an inaugural inductee into the Magazine Hall of Fame. In 2009, Taibbi unleashed a scathing series of acclaimed reporting on the financial meltdown. He famously dubbed Goldman Sachs "The Great Vampire Squid."

Bigger headlines came at the end of June 2010. Rolling Stone caused a controversy in the White House by publishing in the July issue an article by journalist Michael Hastings, entitled, "The Runaway General", quoting criticism of General Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan commander, about Vice President Joe Biden and other Administration members of the White House. McChrystal resigned from his position shortly after his statements went public.

In 2010, Taibbi documented illegal and fraudulent actions by banks in the foreclosure courts after traveling to Jacksonville, Florida and sitting in on hearings in the courtroom. His article, Invasion of the Home Snatchers also documented attempts by the judge to intimidate a homeowner fighting foreclosure and the attorney Taibbi accompanied into the court.

In January 2012, the magazine ran exclusive excerpts from Hastings' book just prior to publication. The book, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan, provided a much more expansive look at McChrystal and the culture of senior American military and how they get embroiled in these wars.

It has been described as a boozy, sexy account of the misadventures of America's most notorious killers. The book reached Amazon's bestseller list in the first 48 hours of release, and it received generally favorable reviews. Salon's Glenn Greenwald described it as "superb," "brave" and "eye-opening."

In 2012, financial scandals also continued to rock the world.


Taibbi emerged as an expert who could explain the events as they unfolded. His articles garnered him invitations to nationally broadcast television programs. In a July discussion of the Libor revelations, Taibbi's coverage was singled out by Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, Inc., as becoming required reading to remain informed.

Notable staff == Robert Altman ,  Michael Azerrad , Lester Bangs , Robert Christgau , Brian Cookman , Timothy Crouse , Cameron Crowe , Anthony DeCurtis , Jancee Dunn , Eric Ehrmann , Joe Eszterhas , Owen Fegan , Timothy Ferris , Dana Leslie Fields , Ben Fong-Torres , David Fricke , Ralph J. Gleason , William Greider , Michael Hastings , Jerry Hopkins , Caroline Kennedy , Joe Klein , David LaChapelle , Jon Landau , Annie Leibovitz , Steven Levy , Kurt Loder , Greil Marcus , Paul Nelson , P. J. O'Rourke , Rob Sheffield , Ralph Steadman , Neil Strauss , Matt Taibbi , Hunter S. Thompson , Touré , Peter Travers , Jann Wenner , Baron Wolman , Evan Wright



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EMAIL FIRST FOR CANADA POST RATES WITHIN CANADA.


For Canadian Bidders we ship daily from Canada.