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[todayonglobe]

Jann Wenner's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Controversy

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Controversy Surrounds Jann Wenner's Removal from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Board, Sparking Industry-Wide Conversations on Diversity and Inclu

[funkyjenn]

This dude will have the stories. Flipped to a random page: “Our editors were virtually all complicit in the use of cocaine. Only Ben (@fongtorres) abstained, though he had certainly spent enough time with Ike Turner”. Ha! 😂 #jannwenner #likearollingstone #bookstagram #book #bibliophile #rollingstonemagazine https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj34J-wp8FE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[minstrel75itg]

Boy, talk about the capturing of two minds. #rollingstone magazine founder and publisher #jannwenner in an early encounter with #billgraham #sanfrancisco https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ZE2LpF9IF/?igshid=nmnu007hztb

[mxdwn]

Jann Wenner To Retire as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Chairman

https://music.mxdwn.com/2019/09/25/news/jann-wenner-to-retire-as-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-foundation-chairman/

[cw21dlr]

[molarmucho]

Las buenas gentes de la editorial Alfaomega siguen con su colección Neo Sounds y en esta ocasión nos traen "Sticky Fingers" la biografía de Jann Wenner, fundador y ex propietario de la revista Rolling Stone. #rollingstone #jannwenner #biografia #molardiscosylibros #molar #libreria #libreríasmadrid (en Molar) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoMdHlkFVIO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pf0lgeh8cvtz

[sergelricco]

Le temps de Fred Woodward et Roger Black est bien révolu.

Quelle tristesse de voir cette nouVIEILLE formule de Rolling Stone.

Jann, Wake up ! 

[ourquietman]

Greil Marcus on Joe Hagan’s Jann Wenner bio STICKY FINGERS

That Hagan names as inspirations The Lives of John Lennon, Albert Goldman’s attempt to destroy John Lennon, and Positively 4th Street, David Hadju’s attempt to discredit Bob Dylan, means that his book is one more proof that a biography grounded in its author’s contemptuous distaste for his or her subject is not a good idea. There’s a huge amount of information here, but if what Hagan did with what I told him is remotely typical then it can’t be trusted.

When I became the first Records editor at Rolling Stone in 1969, I told Jann that the section would have to be like an independent republic: I would print what I decided to print. He could suggest that I cover certain records, he could read every review and object, but the only way he could overrule my decisions would be to fire me. This always held.

At one point, I assigned Langdon Winner Paul McCartney’s first solo album, which had arrived with a self-interview — for the press kit, not the public — dismissing the Beatles as a whole and denigrating the others as not really worth his time. Langdon’s review didn’t mention this; Jann said it had to; I said no. We went back and forth for twenty minutes and got nowhere. Jann said he had other things to do and that when he’d finished we should go out to dinner and talk more. We did; we argued for three straight hours, and finally he convinced me. I went to Langdon’s house and we spent three more hours arguing until I convinced him. He rewrote the review. Both he and I considered it an example of why Rolling Stone was a great magazine and why Jann was a great editor.

In Sticky Fingers, that story is not there. There is mention of a dispute, and the implication that Jann either forced Langdon to insert negative comments into his piece or that Jann rewrote the review himself.

Hagan’s book has already had such an effect that one review said that it was proof that as the creator of Rolling Stone “Wenner was the wrong man for the job” — as opposed, presumably, to all those other people who would have done it if Jann hadn’t pushed his way in front of them. The book is vile.

The above is excerpted from Greil Marcus’s Real Life Rock Top Ten in this week’s VILLAGE VOICE.