'The internet and those guys like Google and Apple and Microsoft and Facebook were like vampires.' 'Rolling Stone' co-founder Jann Wenner speaks to joepompeo about the golden age of magazine publishing and the takeover of tech giants.
and numerous other brands—as “a good-looking young man with a terrible haircut.” What were Wenner’s first impressions of the elusive media executive who was becoming the steward of his life’s work? “I met Jay early on and liked him a lot. He was always my choice to buy the magazine,” Wenner told me. “I mean, you couldn’t sell to any of the big publishers. They’re all shedding [print] as quick as possible.
Clockwise from top left: Werner with Jimi Hendrix before his concert at the Fillmore Auditorium, on February 1, 1968, in San Francisco, California; Jann Wenner and Lenny Kravitz attend the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert at Madison Square Garden on October 30, 2009; Paul McCartney, Jann Wenner and Ringo Starr attend the 30th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Public Hall on April 18, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio; Wenner and Marianne Faithfull at a Rolling...
At 76 and now on the other side of his spate of near-death experiences, Wenner looked better than I thought he would, at least through the screen of my laptop. In a gray long-sleeve and thick glasses that crept down the bridge of his nose, he was voluble and energetic. He does physical therapy and exercises three times a week. He inhales that salty ocean air into his nicotine-battered lungs. “I’m feeling great. I’m happy.
“I feel grateful to have been able to be a part of it,” he said, finally cracking open the can of ginger ale he’d been calling out for someone to bring him throughout the course of our interview. “I feel grateful to have been alive in an era of rock and roll—the talent, and the poets, and the literature, and all the passion of it. It gave me a life of fun, and of purpose, and of consequence. I believe in the foundational values of this country: life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness.
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