Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
    Unavailable
    Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
    Unavailable
    Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
    Audiobook18 hours

    Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

    Written by Joe Hagan

    Narrated by Joe Hagan and Dennis Boutsikaris

    4.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    The first and only biography of Jann Wenner, the iconic founder of Rolling Stone magazine, and a romp through the hothouses of rock and roll, politics, media, and Hollywood, from the Summer of Love to the Internet age.

    Lennon. Dylan. Jagger. Belushi. Leibovitz. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, is an insider's trip through the backstages of storied concert venues, rock-star hotel rooms, and the political ups and downs of the latter half of the Twentieth Century, right up through the digital age: connecting the counterculture of Haight Ashbury to the "straight world."

    Supplemented by a cache of extraordinary documents and letters from Wenner's personal archives, Sticky Fingers is the story of a mercurial, wide-eyed rock and roll fan of ambiguous sexuality but unambiguous ambition who reinvents youth culture, marketing the libertine world of the late sixties counterculture in a stylish, glossy package that would stand for decades as a testament to the cultural power of American youth. Joe Hagan captures in stunning detail the extraordinary lives constellated around a magazine that began as a scrappy rebellion and became a locus of power, influence, and access--using hundreds of hours of reporting and exclusive interviews.

    The result is a fascinating and complex portrait of Jann Wenner that is also a biography of popular culture, celebrity, music, and politics in America over the last fifty years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9781101888667
    Unavailable
    Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

    Related to Sticky Fingers

    Related audiobooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Vision Man

      May 17, 2021

      Vision Man
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Wright, Zauner, Simon, and More

      Apr 20, 2021

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Richard Wright, Michelle Zauner, our own Ed Simon, and more—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Wright, Zauner, Simon, and More appeared first on The Mill

      3 min read

    • Article

      Down But Not Out

      Jul 7, 2022

      Down But Not Out
      3 min read

    • Article

      Shake, Rattle And Write: Why The Music Memoir Is Booming

      Jul 15, 2023

      By her own admission, Miki Berenyi was not a woman itching to write a memoir. Even if she had been, she says, why would anyone have been interested? Her band, Lush, were “never that big”. They enjoyed cult alt-rock success in the early 90s, scored th

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Troublemakers

      Dec 6, 2022

      The Troublemakers
      7 min read

    • Article

      Gangster Bedtime Stories

      Jun 5, 2019

      Gangster Bedtime Stories
      6 min read

    • Article

      Striking A Chord

      Jan 12, 2020

      This collection brings together eight long-form music essays by Ian Penman, who was an NME music journalist in the late 1970s. These pieces cover the mod revival, James Brown, Charlie Parker, Elvis Presley, John Fahey, Steely Dan, Frank Sinatra and P

      1 min read

    • Article

      Jean Stein, 1934–2017

      May 2, 2017

      Jean Stein, 1934–2017
      1 min read

    • Article

      Anarchy In The Auction House: The Sex Pistols Ephemera That’s Pogoing, Going, Gone

      Sep 21, 2022

      On the morning of the day the Queen dies, the art collectors Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson happen to be staring at a picture of her face. It’s a piece of card, smaller than a vinyl LP, which artist Jamie Reid produced for a concert by the Sex Pistol

      6 min read

    • Article

      Funk: American Dada

      Feb 22, 2018

      Funk: American Dada
      5 min read

    • Article

      THE HARD STUFF BOOKB & DVDs

      Nov 11, 2022

      THE HARD STUFF BOOKB & DVDs
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Story Of Punk

      Jun 16, 2022

      The Story Of Punk
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Cockroach Decade

      May 8, 2018

      They keep coming – novels, short stories, memoirs, journals, oral histories, documentaries and feature films that feed off the decade that goes by many names. Tom Wolfe called it the “Me Decade.” Martin Amis called it the “Joke Deca

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Queen of Sherwin Avenue

      Nov 7, 2020

      The Queen of Sherwin Avenue
      11 min read

    Reviews for Sticky Fingers

    4.5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      A huge task Joe Hagan had before him in writing this book of a complex man and his infamous Rolling Stone magazine. So much muck in the lives of the rich and famous, so much selfishness, hedonism and ego; nevertheless, for those of us who more or less grew up with the magazine it's a must read.