Like a Rolling Stone

摘要

The last few months haven't turned out quite as Jann Wenner might have liked. The golden anniversary Rolling Stone, the magazine to which he is inextricably linked as its founder/editor/publisher, has been marred by the publication of Joe Hagan's Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine (Knopf). Wenner initiated and endorsed the biography before he discovered the almost totally unflattering portrait therein. The HBO documentary Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge is far more in line with Wenner's conception of the magazine (and himself), recounting journalistic triumphs over the last half century, which is unsurprising as the film was produced by the magazine. Throughout its history, Rolling Stone advocated for emerging artists that harken back to 1960s rock and roll while overlooking many albums that became classics; the following list includes some of the publication's major hits (and a few misses).