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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: 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: 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 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…”
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: 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…”