An Inside View of San Francisco’s Legendary Music Scene with Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jann Wenner started Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco at the tender age of 21 – placing himself smack in the middle of 1967’s wild and groundbreaking music scene. We’ll talk with Wenner about San Francisco rock and roll, the legacy of Rolling Stone magazine and his new memoir, “Like a Rolling Stone”. Guests: Jann Wenner, founder, Rolling Stone Magazine; author of the memoir, "Like a Rolling Stone" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.3	No one ever really understand young people, do they?
0:50.3	Nowadays, the talk is about Gen Z and their distinct media and personal habits, but in the
0:55.8	1960s, the establishment was trying to contend with the rising boomers.
1:00.5	Few people in the mainstream press could see and present the youth movement of the time in
1:05.4	its kaleidoscopic creativity, power, and weirdness.
1:09.6	Enter the young Jan Wenner, a Bay Area kid
1:11.8	with huge aspirations for chronicling his generation
1:14.7	through the music that they loved.
1:16.6	The magazine he created, Rolling Stone,
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