Sticky Fingers

Joe Hagan

Description

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeSticky Fingers is the story of how one man's ego and ambition captured the 1960s youth culture of rock and roll and turned it into a hothouse of fame, power, politics, and riches that would last for fifty years. Drawn from dozens of hours of interviews with Jann Wenner, who granted Joe Hagan exclusive access to his vast personal archive, this biography reveals how Wenner manufactured an unforgettable cultural mythology in story and image every other week for five decades. Hagan captures in stunning detail the extraordinary stories behind Rolling Stone, the magazine that reinvented youth culture, and marketed the libertine world of late-sixties San Francisco. He chronicles Wenner's marksmanship as an editor, his instinctive understanding of the zeitgeist, his endless pursuit of fame and power and his capacity for betrayal that would earn him as many enemies as friends. Featuring on-the-record interviews with Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Keith Richards, Pete Townsend, Yoko Ono, Billy Joel, Tom Wolfe, Cameron Crowe, Lorne Michaels, David Geffen, Dan Aykroyd, Bette Midler, and many others, Hagan describes Wenner with intimacy, nuance, and complexity. Like a real life Clash of the Titans, STICKY FINGERS captures the spirit of the age and paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most significant cultural forces of our time.

Sujets

• Music

Informations

• Publié par: Canongate Books
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781782115922
• Langue: English

Extrait

Joe Hagan has written for New York, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal , and many other publications. He has published long-form profiles and investigative exposés of some of the most significant figures and subjects of our time, including Hilary Clinton (her first post-secretary of state interview), Karl Rove, the Bush family, Henry Kissinger, Dan Rather, Goldman Sachs, The New York Times , and Twitter. He lives with his family in Tivoli, New York joehagan.net

Published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
Published in the United States in 2017 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto
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This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Joe Hagan, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78211 593 9 eISBN 978 1 78211 592 2
This book is dedicated to Samantha Hunt and our merry band, Rosa, Marie, and Juliet
Can’t you hear me knocking? —The Rolling Stones
Contents
Prologue: Get Back
BOOK I THE WUNDERKIND
1 Atlantis
2 Are You Experienced?
3 California Dreamin’
4 Like a Rolling Stone
5 Born to Run
6 Sympathy for the Devil
7 Bridge over Troubled Water
BOOK II THE 1970S
8 Temptation Eyes
9 Sticky Fingers
10 California
11 The Cover of the Rolling Stone
12 Whatever Gets You thru the Night
13 Love Will Keep Us Together
14 Take It to the Limit
15 Big Shot
16 Stayin’ Alive
17 Shattered
BOOK III IT’S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL
18 Get Back
19 We Don’t Need Another Hero
20 Purple Rain
21 We Didn’t Start the Fire
22 Nevermind
23 Bridges to Babylon
24 Still Crazy After All These Years
Afterword
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Jann Wenner at the Brannan Street offices of Rolling Stone , 1968. (Baron Wolman)
Jann Wenner (center) with his sister Martha (left); his mother, Sim Wenner; and his sister Kate (right) in the 1950s. (Courtesy of Jann Wenner)
Wenner’s page from The Dolphin , Chadwick School’s yearbook, 1963. (Courtesy of Chadwick School)
Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement, being led up the stairs by police at the Greek Theatre at Berkeley—trailed by Jann Wenner, stringer for NBC News, December 1964. (Associated Press)
Denise Kaufman, co-founder of and guitarist for the Ace of Cups and Wenner’s girlfriend at Berkeley. (Courtesy of Denise Kaufman)
Ralph Gleason, jazz critic and music columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle , at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1969. (Baron Wolman)
Wenner in his first Rolling Stone office on Brannan Street, early 1968. (Baron Wolman)
Jann Wenner, 1969. (Baron Wolman)
Jane Schindelheim with Jann Wenner at their apartment in Potrero Hill, San Francisco, 1968. (Baron Wolman)
Robin Gracey at Oxford, 1969. (Courtesy of Robin Gracey)
Boz Scaggs and Wenner on Otis Redding’s ranch near Macon, Georgia, May 1969. (Stephen Paley/Getty)
Writer and musician Ben Sidran with Wenner in London, 1969. (Judy Sidran)
Jann Wenner in his office at Brannan Street, 1969. (Baron Wolman)
Wenner in his new office at 625 Third Street in San Francisco, August 1970. (Getty)
Hunter S. Thompson during his campaign for county sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, 1970. (David Hiser)
Jann and Jane at their home on Ord Court, December 1970. (Robert Altman)
John and Yoko. Cover image by Annie Leibovitz, for the February 4, 1971, issue of Rolling Stone ; part two of Wenner’s post-Beatles interview. (Courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine)
Sandy Bull with his Turkish oud in San Francisco, 1971. (Baron Wolman)
Jann and Jane celebrate New Year’s Eve with Max and Lynda Palevsky, 1973. (Camilla McGrath)
Laurel Gonsalves. (Camilla McGrath)
Tony Pinck and Danny Fields at Max’s Kansas City, 1971. (Anton Perich)
Wenner, with nitrous oxide tube, and Alan Rinzler at the Palevskys’ Palm Springs home, November, 1971. (Dianne Sweet Fong-Torres)
Jann Wenner. (Courtesy of Jann Wenner)
Hunter S. Thompson. (Courtesy of Jann Wenner)
Jane Wenner. (Courtesy of Jann Wenner)
Annie Leibovitz. (Courtesy of Jann Wenner)
Earl McGrath with his dog, Jiminy, in Los Angeles, 1974. (Camilla McGrath)
Jann and Earl McGrath. (Camilla McGrath)
Wenner (bottom left) aboard a cruising boat in 1974 with Camilla and Earl McGrath (bottom right). Seated next to Wenner is Daniel Filipacchi, the French publisher with whom he would try to revive Look magazine in 1979. (Courtesy of the Camilla and Earl McGrath Foundation)
Jann Wenner, Los Angeles, 1974. (Camilla McGrath)
Diane and Egon von Furstenberg, 1973. (Ron Galella/Getty)
Annie Leibovitz, Los Angeles, 1974. (Camilla McGrath)
Jane Wenner and Diane Chess, 1974. (Camilla McGrath)
Diane Chess (bottom left), Jane Wenner, Earl McGrath, and Annie Leibovitz in Barbados, 1974. (Camilla McGrath)
Earl McGrath (foreground) with (clockwise) Camilla, Daniel Filipacchi, Mick Jagger, unidentified man, and Ahmet Ertegun (holding child) on vacation in Barbados, 1974. (Courtesy of the Camilla and Earl McGrath Foundation)
Mick Jagger, Rolling Stone, September 11, 1975. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. (Courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine)
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Portrait by Annie Leibovitz. Rolling Stone, July 17, 1975. (Courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine)
Mick Jagger and Annie Leibovitz, 1975. (Christopher Simon Sykes/Getty)
Joe Armstrong, 1976. (Morris Warman/Courtesy of Joe Armstrong)
Hunter S. Thompson, New York, 1977. (Lynn Goldsmith)
Jane Wenner (right) with Jean Stein and Woody Allen, May 1977. (Getty Images)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Jann Wenner attending a benefit to restore Grand Central Terminal held at the Oyster Bar, July 1977. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
Jann Wenner in 1977. (Jean Pigozzi)
Jane and Annie, 1977. (Jean Pigozzi)
Wenner with Caroline Kennedy in 1977 after the premiere of the Sydney Pollack film Bobby Deerfield. (Ron Galella/Getty)
Jann and John Belushi, 1977. (Jean Pigozzi)
Ahmet Ertegun and Jane Wenner, 1977. (Jean Pigozzi)
Wenner with socialite Barbara Allen at Studio 54, 1978. (Anton Perich)
Wenner jamming on his Gibson ES 355, 1978. (Lynn Goldsmith)
Jane Wenner and David Geffen, 1979. (Jean Pigozzi)
Wenner at dinner with (to his left) Terry Southern, Jean Stein, and Stephen Graham . (Camilla McGrath)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. Rolling Stone , January 22, 1981. (Courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine)
Wenner and Lorne Michaels at the Simon and Garfunkel Central Park Concert party at the Savoy in New York, September 1981. (Ron Galella/Getty)
Hollywood agent Sue Mengers with Wenner outside the Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles, 1981. (Ron Galella/Getty)
Richard Gere in East Hampton with Jane Wenner, 1983. (Jean Pigozzi)
Wenner with John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, his costars in the 1985 film Perfect . (Fred W. McDarrah/Getty)
Jann and Mick Jagger on vacation, 1985. (Camilla McGrath)
Jann and his adopted son, Alexander, 1985. (Camilla McGrath)
Sean Lennon (standing) and Cameron Douglas, son of Michael (right), with Alex Wenner, 1985. (Camilla McGrath)
Michael Douglas and Jann Wenner in East Hampton, 1986. (Jean Pigozzi)
Michael Douglas and Jane Wenner, 1986. (Jean Pigozzi)
Wenner and Ahmet Ertegun, 1987. (Ron Galella/Getty)
Hunter Thompson deplaning from Wenner’s Gulfstream IV, 1993. (Mark Seliger)
Wenner and his writers—William Greider, P. J. O’Rourke, and Hunter Thompson—interviewing Bill Clinton at Doe’s Eat Place in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1992. (Mark Seliger)
Matt Nye, cover of Out magazine, 1999. (Here Publishing Inc.)
Portrait of Jann Wenner, 2000. (Mark Seliger)
Bonnie Fuller was named Advertising Age ’s Editor of the Year in 2002 after reviving Us Weekly. (Larry Busacca/Getty)
In March 2004, Jann Wenner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Mick Jagger and Ahmet Ertegun. (Kevin Kane/Getty)
Wenner with his son Gus, 2009. (Mark Seliger)
Wenner interviewing President Barack Obama at the White House, 2010. (Mark Seliger)
Bono, Jann Wenner, Mick Jagger, and Bruce Springsteen at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2009. (Mark Seliger)
Jann Wenner and his son Gus, 2017. (Jesse Dittmar)
Jane Wenner in Amagansett, 2016. (Theo Wenner)
Prologue: Get Back
J ohn Lennon was in a movie theater, crying.
The image of Paul, singing from the rooftop in the final ten minutes, had set him off. Jann Wenner shifted in his seat. In the darkness of a tiny movie house in San Francisco, the Beatle, Wenner’s hero, whose iconic spectacles and nose adorned the first issue of his rock-and-roll newspaper, Rolling Stone, had tears running down his cheeks as light flickered off his glasses. And next to him was Yoko Ono, the bête noire of Beatledom, raven hair shrouding her porcelain face, also weeping.
It was a Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1970, and John and Yoko and Jann and his wife, Jane Wenner, were watching the final scenes of Let It Be, the documentary about the Beatles’ acrimonious recording session for their last album. John and Yoko were deep into primal scream therapy, their emotions raw and close to the surface, and the image of a bearded Paul McCartney singing from the rooftop of Apple Records, against a cold London wind, was too much to bear.
Get back to where you once belonged . . .
For Wenner, the twenty-four-year-old boy wonder of the new rock press, who worshipped the Beatles as passionately as any kid in America, this was a dream, sitting here in the dark, wiping away his own tears at the twilight of the greatest band of all time, elbow to elbow with “the most famous person in the world, for God’s sake.”
“And it’s just the four of u