Michael Lydon, a veteran music journalist who served as the original assistant editor of Rolling Stone when it ran out of a tiny San Francisco loft by a skeleton staff overseen by co-founder Jann Wenner, died on July 30. He was 82. Lydon’s wife, Ellen Mandel, confirmed his death to …
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The Black Music Action Coalition called Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s exclusion of Black and female musicians from his upcoming book The Masters “an offensive and absurd erasure.” The organization — which was founded in the summer of 2020 amidst the uprising against police brutality and wider reckonings with systemic …
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Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has been ousted from his position on the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. The news was announced on Saturday, following an interview with The New York Times, where he made widely criticized comments about Black and female musicians, …
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Bruce Springsteen engaged Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner in a wide-ranging interview for 92nd Street Y earlier this week. The longtime friends discussed Wenner’s early years as a reporter on through the birth of Rolling Stone. “Jann and I have known each other a long time. We’re both old men …
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Bruce Springsteen and Jann Wenner will appear in conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Sept. 13. The lifelong friends will discuss Wenner’s new memoir, Like A Rolling Stone: A Memoir, which also arrives on Sept. 13. Online and in-person tickets are available now. All tickets …
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