Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone is a magazine with a focus on pop culture and rock music.
In the U.S.
The Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco by Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason in 1967. The name goes back to Bob Dylan's song Like a Rolling Stone and a Gleason same article in the journal American Scholar. Gleason's article was about the new music and politics. The Rolling Stone operational in the next few years successfully the New Journalism.
The political ambition but was soon hardly noticed. International attention was only a product of the dismissal of Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, led 2010. The National Magazine Award was won by Rolling Stone in 2004 for the 14th time. Influences were the journalist Hunter S. Thompson and Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone.
The Rolling Stone was known in particular for its cover images. Nude pictures of John Lennon with Yoko Ono in 1970, the young David Cassidy in 1972 created a great stir. The cover of Rolling Stone had become so important that Shel Silverstein's band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show also came with an ironic song in the top ten and then precisely that title screen. In the following years continued the photographic quality standards through the work of Annie Leibovitz.
In 1997, the magazine for its typographic design, the highest award of the Type Directors Club of New York, the Type Directors Club Medal, which is awarded only to individuals and institutions who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of typography.
The Rolling Stone is not numbered by year separately, but continuously since its founding. The Rolling Stone No. 1000 was published on 18 May 2006.
By October 2008, the Rolling Stone had over 30 years an unusual newspaper format of 30 cm height and 25 cm width.
German edition
After a short-lived attempt in the 1980s with Frank Steffan as editor in chief was in 1994 with the second trial, the magazine will be established on the market. It originally appeared in this specially founded DRS -Verlag, publisher was the concert promoter Werner Kuhl, chief editors were Gülden Jörg and Bernd Gockel. The outdoor staff were already known from other publications here. One of the editors of the early days was the later writer Benjamin of Stuckrad - Barre. In 2002 due to disagreements between the mother and DRS publishing the award of the license issue to AS Young Media House, a subsidiary of Axel Springer publishing. It appears there with the erstwhile competitors Music Express, an impending antitrust lawsuit this could be averted. Editor in Chief remained Bernd Gockel, who was the sole before the change of publisher and after the resignation of Jörg Gülden chief editor. He was succeeded in 2010 by Rainer Schmidt. Since 2012 it is Sebastian Zabel.
The German edition is published monthly and in the 2nd quarter of 2010, a paid circulation of 54 953 pieces (source: IVW).
In autumn 2008, Rolling Stone went along with the U.S. alt-country band Lambchop from Nashville, Tennessee, an unusual way to market the new album OH ( ohio ). The CD was with a plastic cover and booklet of the October issue of the magazine, which the price is for only slightly increased. In summer 2010 the magazine was the new Prince album " 20TEN " resolved, that was not otherwise commercially available.
Awards
Leaderboards of Rolling Stone
- The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
- The 500 best songs of all time
- The 100 best singers of all time