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By 1967 it was unavoidable: the youth of America had created a viable thriving anarchic culture that bore no relation to anything that had preceded it. One magazine would capture this movement and the frenetic times that surrounded it in a voice that spoke to that culture not at it. It became legendary for its commitment to the music for the stellar cast of critics and journalists it spawned and for the total lack of bullshit between its covers. This was Rolling Stone. What was going on inside the Rolling Stone offices was just as wild and unpredictable. This was not the usual collection of professionals battling deadlines to lay out fashion spreads or recipe collections. This was a motley band of rebels outcasts and loners fiercely independent scribes with nothing in common save a belief in the power of music and the ideals it represented. Yet out of this sex drugs and rock & roll madness came something legendary: an inspired chaos that somehow managed to produce every two weeks without fail one of the most important magazines of our time. Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History is the first complete detailed accurate and inside account of Rolling Stone s turbulent colorful history. It recounts in explicit detail the whacked-out fun and games the major weirdness and the plain hard work that went on behind the scenes. Inside you ll meet the mythical master of Gonzo journalism Dr. Hunter S. Thompson; the reviewer who went on to manage Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau; the scores of young contributors who went on to brilliant careers such as Greil Marcus Annie Leibovitz Timothy White Dave Marsh and many others; as well as the musicians politicos and other assorted lunatics who stud — and litter — the magazine s history.
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