Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Audiobook (Free)
- Dennis Boutsikaris, Joe Hagan
- 18 h 41 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2017-10-24
Summary:
A delicious romp through the heyday of stone and a uncovering portrait of the person on the helm of the iconic newspaper that made it all possible, with candid look backs in the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, as well as others.
The storyplot of Jann Wenner, Moving Stone’s founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is certainly told here for the first time in glittering, glorious details. Joe Hagan provides readers about Sticky Fingers: THE LIFE SPAN and Moments of Jann Wenner and Rolling Rock Magazine using a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard tales about the lives of rock and roll stars and their handlers; he information the daring journalism (Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O’Rourke) and internecine workplace politics that supported the start-up; he animates the drug and intimate appetites from the era; and he reviews over the politics of the last fifty years which were often chronicled in the web pages of Rolling Stone magazine.
Supplemented with a cache of incredible documents and words from Wenner’s personal archives, Sticky Fingers depicts an ambitious, mercurial, wide-eyed rock and roll enthusiast of who exalts in youngsters and beauty and discovers how to bundle it, marketing late sixties counterculture as a testament to the energy of American youngsters. The result is normally a fascinating and complex portrait of guy and period, and an irresistible biography of well-known culture, celebrity, music, and politics in America.