Rolling Stone

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Title

Rolling Stone

Coverage

San Francisco

Publisher

Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.

Date

[November 1967]

Subject

Advertisers’ preview edition

Description

Rolling Stone was founded by two refugees from Ramparts: Ralph J. Gleason, with three decades of music journalism to his credit, and twenty-one-year-old Jann Wenner. Its mission statement called the tabloid “a new publication reflecting what we see are the changes in rock and roll and the changes related to rock and roll . . . about the things that the music embraces.” Rolling Stone remains the most influential force in American music publishing.