Rolling Stone, 1000 Covers: A History of the Most Influential Magazine in Pop Culture
Rolling Stone, 1000 Covers: A History of the Most Influential Magazine in Pop Culture
This book, the complete collection of Rolling Stone’s covers from 1967 to present, represents not just the evolution of a magazine but a record of our times. For almost four decades, no surer sign has heralded the arrival of a performer,artist or personality than an appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone. Virtually every important rock muscian and movie star has appeared on one of the nearly one thousand covers reproduced here, along with the politicians, comedians, cartoon characters, filmmakers, pop singers and TV actors who have helped to shape our era.
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Still rolling along,
If you have the original large 1998 edition this latest book is just a continuation, though smaller in size, up to the thousandth edition in May/June 2006. I was rather impressed with the earlier book except for the silly tiny type dates and photo credits for each cover, amazingly set in four point. Fortunately someone has realised that tiny type is not really readable in a domestic lighting environment so the cover dates and photo credits have been upped to just over five point, still rather small though. Apart from this all the other text is readable and combined with the excellent design and printing makes this a wonderful book to look at.
Like the first book it is not just a memory jogger of covers, there are plenty of sidebar excerpts from the magazine. It is the covers though that are the five stars plus. Not many consumer publications manage to consistently retain a quality cover look over so many years and in the Stone’s case with the same logo since January 1981. Look through the index of photographers and illustrators and you’ll see why the covers look so cool: Annie Leibovitz shot 142 of them, Herb Ritts has forty-six, Richard Avedon eighteen. With this sort of quality no wonder it always looked good. Even the early issues in the rather inflexible newspaper format had a distinctive cover style.
I think this beautiful looking updated book will be a strong seller (not least because of Amazon’s bargain price) for those who lived with rock for the last thirty-nine years.
Quirky observation: the book’s title is on a wrap-around strip of paper (rather bizarrely called a belly band in the trade) and I can’t see it staying in one piece for long as this is just the kind of book that will enjoy a lot of handling.
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|Very Impressive,
I’ve always been impressed with the covers of Rolling Stone over the years, and as I was browsing my local library recently, I came upon this book in the art section. I was so impressed that I went out almost immediately and ordered it. Here you will find – as the cover suggests – the first 1,000 covers of Rolling Stone, featuring the great icons of American popular music over the last 40+ years. It is a thick volume, but fits comfortably on a bookshelf and makes a handsome addition to any collection. recommended not only for the pop culture buff, but also any fan of art and photography – the artistry of many of these images is superb. A recommended buy.
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|Great Book,
This book brought me back so many, many years. I remember so many of these covers. It was a present for my husband and he just loves going through the book all the time.
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