num_pages: 288
description: Join Hunter Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, Tom Wolfe, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Kendrick Lamar, and Taylor Swift on a decade-by-decade exploration of music and history with this one-of-a-kind gift book.For over fifty years, Rolling Stone magazine has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and—above all—music. Whether you bought your music on vinyl, on CD, by downloading, or even on 8-tracks and cassette tapes, this landmark book documents the magazine’s rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography.From the revolution of 1960s to the hip hop and pop of today, this unique gift book offers a decade-by-decade exploration of American music and history. Interviews with rock legends—Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Kurt Cobain, Bruce Springsteen, and more—appear alongside iconic photographs by Baron Wolman, Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger, and other leading image-makers. Chapters With feature articles, excerpts, photography, and exposés by such quintessential writers as Hunter S. Thompson, Matt Taibbi, and David Harris, this book is an irresistible and essential keepsake of the magazine that has defined American music from the Baby Boomers to Generation Z.
language: English
title: 50 Years of Rolling Stone: The Music, Politics and People that Shaped Our Culture
publisher: Abrams