Jann Wenner
Co-founder, Rolling Stone. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Wenner co-founded Rolling Stone magazine in 1967 alongside Ralph J. Gleason, establishing a prominent pop culture and music publication. He also co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and authored books including his memoir, Like a Rolling Stone.
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1appearances
22statements
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9supported
1contradicted
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4said about them ↓ Everything Jann Wenner said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wenner: Early society did not produce great women journalists in rock/culture
“It didn't matter to me, but it's just that the general society just didn't produce great women journalists at that time. There are a few who wrote for the times, but not many who wrote in our area.”
Wenner: Rolling Stone Published UVA Story Without Adequate Fact-Checking
“But the general report on rape on campus was quite accurate. The Illustrated main story of the rape victim that was made up by that rape victim. And we print that without adequately checking it.”
Wenner: San Francisco was provincial and ceased driving music culture by 1977
“And then San Francisco wasn't so much a cultural backwater. It was just provincial. You know, it was out on the coast. It was off of the mainstream. It wasn't putting out this big, unique culture thing and music anymore.”
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson fabricated their feud as a literary foil
“All I can tell you is that Hunter liked to go around Talking about how awful his bosses were, how, you know, you need to always have a villain, a foil for his writing, and if nobody else was available, if Nixon was not available to somebody else, then it was m…”
Wenner: 1960s student political activism originated in the SF Bay Area
“So I think political activism Among students really was generated in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
Wenner: 1960s rock music was the exclusive communication medium for youth
“Music was the kind of tribal telegraph, the drums that were beating for young people around the world, where they could kind of communicate with each other and see what other people People like them around the world we're doing. And so, this is the way young p…”
Wenner: The true test of business acumen is managing during hard times
“When you're involved in something like, in that stage or something, that when things are growing all the time and getting better and more and more money is coming in, you don't have to be too tough to manage that. You know, you're the victim of success from ou…”
Wenner: Rolling Stone covered punk and disco despite reader backlash
“No, there was no truth to that. We were right on the punk movement and right on disco, and people hated disco. They hated us for covering disco, and other people hated us for covering punk.”
Wenner: Modern magazines should be small and reader-funded, not ad-supported
“If one wanted to do a magazine day, my counsel would be just, make us a small, make it a small magazine, and make it so that it's supported by its readers, not by advertisers.”
Wenner: Thompson became unproductive for many years after the 1972 campaign
“After the campaign, a few campaign-related pieces, like, about Watergate he just became unproductive and remained so for many, many years.”
Wenner: Rolling Stone started with $7,500 in pooled capital
“He had some cash to put in, and I got some
2000 dollars for my mother, and for my mother-in-law to be, and some money from a college friend of mine, and also from my stepmother.
And that assembled together was 7500 dollars, and that was what we started with.”
Wenner: Rolling Stone gained breakout attention by publishing banned Lennon-Ono nude cover
“Well, the first time we got a lot of attention was on the first year anniversary. We printed the cover, the band Two Virgins cover of the album that John Yoko, John Lennon and Yoko Ono did together. One that shot them in backsides and then a picture of them co…”
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson's 1972 Campaign Reporting Put Rolling Stone on the Map
“It was also one of the key things that really finally put Rolling Stone on the map in a big way. You know, everybody in the press corps was reading, everyone in the campaign was reading, and people around the country were riveted by what he had to say.”
Wenner: Rolling Stone nearly went broke three years in from office overhead
“Well, after about three years, we went through a real brush with running out of money, which lasted a couple of months, because we had moved offices in San Francisco from rent-free loft in a printer's place to a big, you know, expensive new, too expansive offi…”
Wenner: Sold Outside magazine at break-even due to cash constraints
“At the same time, I started a new publication called Outside, and left that in San Francisco. And there came a point where it was just too much to be carrying both magazines, so I sold Outside magazines. ... I sold it for about what I put into it, but I couldn…”
Wenner: Ralph Gleason was among few early critics taking rock seriously
“Ralph Gleason was a jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to covering jazz, he would write about Some rock and roll things, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, stuff like that, and he was one of the few voices around anywhere in the country, and in S…”
Wenner: Rolling Stone was named after Dylan's song and Gleason's essay
“The one that kept sticking was Rolling Stone the Dylan song, Like a Rolling Stone, and it was the title of an essay that Ralph had written for a small publication called The American Scholar, in which he laid out his thinking about the meaning of rock and roll…”
Wenner: Rolling Stone launched without paying salaries or rent
“You know, it was just, we paid what we could pay for the money we had on hand, and that would be as far as we'd go, and since we weren't paying salaries, weren't paying rent, our only cost really was printing the paper, and The cost of distributions, which I w…”
Wenner: Rolling Stone's First Issue Investigated Monterey Pop Festival Finances
“The big thing was we did a investigation to what had happened to the money that had been earned at the Monterey Pop Festival. Had it been given to charity or not? So we looked into that in a long report, and kind of established right then and there that we wer…”
Wenner: Rolling Stone reached 30,000 to 40,000 copies per issue by year one
“Hired our first employee who received 25 dollars a week, and by the end of the first year, we were a viable business with three or four people being paid, getting it out regularly, selling 30 or 40,000 copies of an issue.”
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson's first Rolling Stone piece covered his sheriff campaign
“And he wrote back saying, geez, he'd been really reading Rolling Stone. It was terrific and great, but he'd love to write, but he couldn't write now because he was busy involved in running for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. So, I wrote him back and said, well, wh…”
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