Product Description
Rolling stone magazine has been the leading chronicler of rock and roll for 30 years. For artists and entertainers, nothing is better tha Rolling Stone cover. Now the legends are collected together, from Bob Dylan to Jakob Dylan, photographed by Annie Leibowitz, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, and others. With fascinating behind-th-scenes stories and excerpts from articles and interviews, this is an evocative journey through three decades of popular music. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Great Pictures, Lacks Stories Behind the Photos
I have owned this book for a few years now, and I still cannot get enough of it.I use it as a coffee table book, and it is a great casual flip book.My friends come over all the time and browse through the years and years of covers.I am a huge fan of Rolling Stone magazine and all of its history, so this was a great book for me.I have only been reading the magazine for five or ten years now, so I enjoy viewing the pop culture icons of the past.My favorite covers are those from the sixties' era, with people such as Janis Joplin and the Beatles.I also love the more recent early nineties' covers because those are the issues I used to steal from my parents and sneak reading. However, I will say, that I read a Rolling Stone special issue in which they showed the most influential photographers and gave brief stories, anecdotes, or reasons of the photo's importance, and I would have loved to have seen those type of stories in this book.Also, a newer edition has been released and includes even more current covers than this book.I would have upgraded if the size had been the same as this book.I like the large, wide pages, and the newer book does not show the actual size of the photographs on the covers, with a more pocket-sized edition of the pictures.I have eyed the DVD 40th anniversary box set for some time now, and I am looking to invest in the set to learn more about the stories behind the covers and their issues.All in all, this is a great picture book of an iconic magazine for browsing amazing people in pop culture history.

bob dylan- front; His son (lead of the Wallflowers) on back
from the very first opening of the cover you know its gonna be a high-classmagazine cover book.It features new artists, and old, with very rich photos and informative captions on many.Very rich color, so rich you forget you're looking at a book on magazine covers.Features Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Green Day, Hole, Nirvana, the Wallflowers (hense the back) and more for those who like the artists.Others such as Elvis, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan (hense the cover) and Sharon Stone, exploring all the intimate stories behind some of the MOST famous covers.Documents every, or almost every cover in the history of the infamous Rolling Stone Magazine in their run.An essential for cultural info buffs and makes a nice present.

Classic Covers
The covers of Rolling Stone Magazine have been controversial, memorable and are a marker for musicians that they have made it.Some covers have created a stir such as a teenage Britney Spears posing in a provocative outfit, a topless Janet Jackson with a pair of male hands covering her and the last photograph session of John Lennon in which he is naked on a bed next to a fully clothed Yoko Ono.Most of the covers are simple photographs of everyone from Bob Dylan to Richard Nixon and even Dr. Hook who sang a song called "Cover Of The Rolling Stone", but they are some of the best works by the some of the best photographers in business like Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritts.

Rock'n'Roll in graphical historical detail
This book is a virtual history of American rock'n'roll.Each cover says something about the times, such as the now rather melancholy shot of Nirvana, form early 1994, on the verge of a huge comeback, just months before Kurt Cobain shot himself, or Annie Leibovitz's moody 1971 study of John Lennon, then deeply into his Working Class Hero phase.Rock'n'roll stars compete for cover space with politicians and film stars, depending upon what the issue or the hot stuff of the day was - Warren Beatty and Jerry Falwell both feature in political and pop-cultural contexts (the shot of Beatty is from 1975, when he was promoting Shampoo, a film set just days before the Kennedy assassination) and the text is sprinkled with plenty of choice quotes form both camps, making this a book to be slowly savoured for its pictorial and historical content time and time again.

A piece of history
Seeing many of the covers again (I was a subscriber in the seventies) is like going back in time - and seeing many of the covers for the first time makes me wonder why I stopped being a subscriber.
I bought this book after having seen an exhibition of Annie Leibovitz, and to me she is still one of the greatest. ... Read more