Vintage issue # 103 of Rolling Stone magazine dated March 2, 1972 and featuring a classic cover illustration of Bob Dylan which accompanies part one of Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography by Anthony Scaduto.
The issue also features a classic article by gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson called Fear and Loathing in New Hampshire, and the chilling finale to Joe Eszterhas classic expose Nark - A Tale of Terror.
There are also good reads on London’s fifties phenomenon the Teddy Boys, singer Mahalia Jackson, J. J. Cale, Roberta Flack, New York recording studios, Mitch Ryder, and Al Green.
Album reviews are on Everything Put Together Falls Apart by Paul Simon, Pictures At An Exhibition by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Into the Purple Valley by Ry Cooder, Garcia by Jerry Garcia, Street Corner Symphony by The Persuasions, Naturally by J. J. Cale, Islands by King Crimson, Jackson Browne by Jackson Browne, Footprint by Gary Wright, Brain Capers by Mott the Hoople, Loose by Crazy Horse, Sanctuary by Dion, Aerie by John Denver, Sunfighter by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick and many, many more. A review of several albums of Memphis blues music is also provided.
The film reviews are of the classic Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood and of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange which starred Malcolm McDowell.
Book reviews are of The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, Shedding Skin by Robert Ward and Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner.
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