How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while

About this episode

The episode discusses how Rolling Stone magazine influenced a social revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s.

My California Sun conversation with Peter Richardson , author of the new book “ Brand New Beat : The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine.” A time when the media had a different kind of power — between 1967 and 1977 — when the Bay Area’s counterculture reshaped music and the journalism. From Haight-Ashbury to the Fillmore, Hunter S. Thompson to Annie Leibovitz, the magazine documented a social revolution while simultaneously creating it. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Guest: Peter Richardson

Topics covered

• Rolling Stone
• social revolution
• media power
• counterculture
• journalism

Keywords

• Brand New Beat
• Haight-Ashbury
• Fillmore
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Annie Leibovitz

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Brand New Beat

Books & works: Brand New Beat : The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine, Talk Cocktail Podcast

Places: the Bay Area’s

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