The Wall Street Journal of rock'n'roll'

Rolling Stone celebra su 1000 cumple-portadas con un especial, de la portada más famosa de Annie Leibovitz a la más graciosa de Mark Seliger. Aun más interesante, Gaby Wood le dedica uno de sus maravillosos artículos para el Observer:

Indeed, while the magazine's post-Summer of Love origins are now the stuff of myth, its survival up to the present day has been built on a series of chameleonlike changes with the times. Set up in San Francisco in 1967 with $7,500 borrowed from Wenner's wife's family, Rolling Stone fostered some of the greatest journalistic minds of the 20th century. Hunter S Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for it; Tom Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff for it; Annie Leibovitz, staff photographer from 1970 to 1983, contributed reportage work of which she recently said she is particularly proud, and of course its most famous cover shot, of an intertwined John and Yoko. The magazine covered Nixon's election campaign in 1972, the Manson murders, the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the whistle blown by Karen Silkwood. Articles of 20,000 words were routine.

Volviendo al aniversario, hay de todo para todos, como un trivia para mantener vivas las competiciones de nostálgicos o un paseo por las portadas, por órden cronológico y temático, desnudos inclusive. La de las señoras del rock empieza con Janis Joplin y acaba con Gwen Stephani, una curva descendente, paralela a la relevancia de los temas de portada a lo largo de los años.

Y la portada de Richard Avedon con Nastassia Kinski. Eso si.