Wenner: Rolling Stone was named after Dylan's song and Gleason's essay
Jann Wenner · Rolling Stone: Jann Wenner · Jul 10, 2017 · at 10:37
Jann Wenner, co-founder of Rolling Stone, discusses how he and co-founder Ralph J. Gleason settled on the publication's name ahead of its 1967 launch.
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“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 and what its importance was in the new America, developing American society.”
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