I didn’t know he was that nasty spirited.” All this money and time and effort had been put into something that turned out to be so badly written and inaccurate and prurient. Wenner said his first reaction after he read Hagan’s book was “to be sick to my stomach. “I went into it with full faith, wanting to trust and be an open book and tell a story,” Wenner said. Unfortunately for Wenner, in contracting that book he gave Hagan final say over its contents, leaving one of publishing’s most influential figures powerless to challenge its point of view. While it acknowledged Wenner’s breathtaking run of accomplishments, it also painted him as a self-involved fanboy who betrayed good friends and used his magazine as much as a personal passport to the high life as a vehicle for editorial innovation and creativity. As it turns out, controversy also had a major hand in inspiring his book.įive years ago, another book was published about Wenner, titled Sticky Fingers by journalist Joe Hagan, that, at times, presented a withering portrait of its subject. In the process, it also established him as one of the industry’s starriest, and most controversial, figures. “I wanted to show what the spirit and the purpose and the nature of the baby boom was,” he said.Īlong the way, he also wanted to tout a track record he established with Rolling Stone magazine that made it one of the most resonant, and admired, publishing ventures of the 20th century. In fact, his desire to re-assert his commitment to the issues and history of his demographic was one reason he decided to write a new 554-page memoir titled – what else? – Like a Rolling Stone. Though he never called himself a spokesperson for his generation – the very idea of it makes him blanch – Wenner has played a large role in both reflecting its truths and advancing its mythology. But, then, boomer has been something of a brand for Wenner for more than half a century now, and an extremely successful one at that. Views like that might strike certain younger people as the reason they coined the phrase “OK, boomer” to begin with. And the responsibility for failing to deal with the climate crisis lays squarely with the carbon industry and the oil companies and the politicians who have taken their money, not with baby boomers.” “Millennials are as up on music of the 60s and the Beatles and the Stones as they are on what’s current. “I see no evidence of it,” the Rolling Stone magazine founder said.
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