Friday, November 9, 2007

Rolling Stone magazine issue # 75 February 4, 1971

Vintage issue # 75 of Rolling Stone magazine dated February 4, 1971 and featuring the classic cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Besides Jann Wenner's excellent feature length interview of John Lennon, with photos by Annie Leibovitz, there is also an excellent interview of Charles A. Reich, author of the seminal book The Greening of America. Finally there is a great article on Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods.

There are good reads on the London underground scene, underground disk jockey John Peel, Decca Record's John King, Grand Funk Railroad, Leslie West and Mountain, The J. Geils Band, rock venue The Boston Tea Party, the stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a Leonard Cohen profile and one on bluesman Robert Johnson. There is also an excellent four page pictorial called It Happened in 1970 - Rolling Stone's Annual Awards for Profundity in Arts and Culture.

The column Random Notes is a fascinating time capsules which provides a glimpse of the events and perspectives of the time. The column Acoustics covered stereo equipment and musical instruments that were coming to market.

Album reviews are of His Band and the Street Choir by Van Morrison, Blows Against The Empire by Paul Kantner, The Worst of the Jefferson Airplane by Jefferson Airplane, Whales & Nightingales by Judy Collins, Pendulum by Credence Clearwater Revival, Watt by Ten Years After, We Got to Live Together by Buddy Miles, That's the Way It Is by Elvis Presley, Ry Cooder by Ry Cooder, A Pocket Full of Miracles by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Little Feat by Little Feat, Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 by Ginger Baker, Rick Sings Nelson by Rick Nelson, Tarkio Road by Brewer and Shipley and many, many more.

The singles Apeman by the Kinks, Celia of the Seals by Donovan and Lonely Days by the Bee Gees are also reviewed.

Book reviews are of Future Shock by Alvin Toffler and Soledad Brother by George Jackson. The film reviews are of Rio Lobo by director Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, and This Man Must Die by French Director Claude Chabrol.

Rolling Stone's Top Ten Films of 1970 is presented and the genre of Chinese action films is examined.

There is also tons of vintage advertising and photos of our music and entertainment icons looking much younger!

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