Reviews for Rolling stone

The average rating for Rolling stone based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-17 00:00:00 Chantal Seremty (Warning: My review is biased, as I'm in the book and a former RS editor. Still...) A sweeping collection of essays on the 1970s, filtered through the prism of Rolling Stone, including Jim Farber's terrific remembrance of David Bowie/glam rock and its impact on LGBT youth in the '70s, Nelson George on funk and soul, Donna Gaines on Led Zeppelin, and my piece on Southern rock that was the seed for my book Dixie Lullaby. Also includes lots of famous folks writing of their experiences in the '70s, from political insiders (Hamilton Jordan on his journey to the White House with Jimmy Carter) to broadcast journalists (Dan Rather on presidential coverage), TV producers (Lorne Michaels on SNL), club owners (Hilly Kristal on CBGB), and musicians (Joan Baez on going to Hanoi, Chrissie Hynde on being at Kent State during the notorious National Guard shootings). Not to mention all the stellar works from the panoply of Rolling Stoners who defined the magazine from the '70s to the '90s: publisher Jann S. Wenner, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Joe Klein, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Howard Kohn, Timothy Ferris, Joe Eszterhas, Mikal Gilmore, David, Ritz, David Wild, Anthony DeCurtis, Barbara O'Dair, Bill Van Parys, and so many others. All expertly edited and compiled by Holly George-Warren, Ashley Kahn, and Shawn Dahl.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-22 00:00:00 Michael Dales Rolling Stone: The Seventies by Rolling Stone Magazine, Ashley Kahn (Editor), Holly George-Warren (Little Brown and Company 1999)(741.652 +/-). This is the quintessential hipster guide to the newsworthy topics of the 1970's in more or less chronological order. From Watergate to water bongs, if it was important to teens and twenty-somethings, it's in here. The most affecting story told is about Jim Jones and the mass suicide at the People's Temple in Guyana; the most memorable is an entry from 1978 entitled "bongs, trips, ludes and lines." And I was right there in it. My rating: 7.5/10, finished 8/21/14.