Joe Hagan has written for New York, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He has published long-form profiles and investigative exposés of some of the most significant figures and subjects of our time, including Hilary Clinton (her first post-secretary of state interview), Karl Rove, the Bush family, Henry Kissinger, Dan Rather, Goldman Sachs, The New York Times, and Twitter. He lives with his family in Tivoli, New York joehagan.net
Published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd,
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Published in the United States in 2017 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of
Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf
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This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books
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ISBN 978 1 78211 593 9
eISBN 978 1 78211 592 2
This book is dedicated to Samantha Huntand our merry band, Rosa, Marie, and Juliet
Can’t you hear me knocking?
—The Rolling Stones
Contents
11 The Cover of the Rolling Stone
12 Whatever Gets You thru the Night
BOOK III IT’S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL
24 Still Crazy After All These Years
List of Illustrations
Jann Wenner at the Brannan Street offices of Rolling Stone, 1968. (Baron Wolman)
Wenner’s page from The Dolphin, Chadwick School’s yearbook, 1963. (Courtesy of Chadwick School)
Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement, being led up the stairs by police at the Greek Theatre at Berkeley—trailed by Jann Wenner, stringer for NBC News, December 1964. (Associated Press)
Denise Kaufman, co-founder of and guitarist for the Ace of Cups and Wenner’s girlfriend at Berkeley. (Courtesy of Denise Kaufman)
Ralph Gleason, jazz critic and music columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1969. (Baron Wolman)
Wenner in his first Rolling Stone office on Brannan Street, early 1968. (Baron Wolman)
Jann Wenner, 1969. (Baron Wolman)
Jane Schindelheim with Jann Wenner at their apartment in Potrero Hill, San Francisco, 1968. (Baron Wolman)
Robin Gracey at Oxford, 1969. (Courtesy of Robin Gracey)
Boz Scaggs and Wenner on