Rolling Stone Magazine Debuts
The 60s counter-culture was in full bloom in 1967 when Jann Wenner founded Rolling Stone Magazine with music critic Ralph Gleason. Rolling Stone was the first great journal of the emerging rock music. The magazine covered the music and the culture surrounding it, from a left-of-center, perspective. A photo of John Lennon graced the first cover in November 1967. Many great journalists wrote for Rolling Stone, including Greil Marcus, Lester Bangs, and Hunter S. Thompson, and the magazine branched out from just music into coverage of politics and news as well. The advent of grunge and hip-hop seemed to leave Rolling Stone in the dust, though the venerable rock publication has been making a comeback as both it and rock ‘n’ roll itself have entered middle age.