Lennon Remembers — The Rolling Stone Interviews

Wenner, Jann

Penguin

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale law professor, and Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone. Garcia was just thirty-one years old but already viewed--to his lasting dismay--as a social avatar for the new sensibility sweeping the land, an anarchist streak with a populist undercurrent that had roots in Ken Kesey's pranksters, the writers of the Beat Generation, and the libertine tradition of the American transcendentalists. In this interview, Garcia reveals how he is a combination of these and other influences, a high-school dropout and autodidact blessed with a gift for eloquent turns of phrase and a refreshing directness. He speaks of the saga of the Grateful Dead and his hoodlum youth growing up in San Francisco's Mission district. He delves into fascinating discourses on the music that shaped his own playing and writing, and freely discusses his use of drugs and explains why he felt it was important to stay high. Like the Grateful Dead's best music, Garcia: A Signpost to New Space is familiar, friendly, and inviting.

Garcia: A Signpost To New Space

Biographies & Memoirs

García, Jerry

Reich, Charles

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

20 Years of Rolling Stone What

Arts & Photography

Music

Random House Value Publishing

A revelatory collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of celebrities and cultural icons--from Joan Didion&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Rolling Stones&nbsp;to&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi. Featuring short essays from Fran Lebowitz, Harrison Ford, and more.&nbsp; "A treasure trove of celebrities at play in the 1960s, '70s and '80s." --PEOPLE&nbsp; Camilla Pecci Blunt, a nonprofessional photographer who grew up between Italy and New York, was well placed to forge the path she did. Her mother was passionate about the arts, took photographs, painted, and collected artists around her, and had galleries in Rome and New York. The more than six hundred photographs in this book from the 1950s to the early 1990s capture our cultural icons in casual, playful moments. After she married Earl McGrath in 1963, their homes--first in New York and then in Los Angeles--became gathering places for a wholly unexpected mix of people that Camilla documented in these surprising, in-the-moment photographs: Jackie Kennedy, Jerome Robbins, Sammy Davis Jr., Calvin and Kelly Klein, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Bruce Chatwin, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Jean Tinguely, Frank O'Hara, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Bryan Ferry, Bette Midler, Jerry Hall, Keith Haring, Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Brown, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, John Waters, Joan Didion, Angelia Huston, Robert Graham, David Hockney, Michael Crichton, and Barbra Streisand, among many others. Andrea di Robilant's essay, along with memories from Griffin Dunne, Vincent Fremont, Harrison Ford, Fran Lebowitz, and Jann Wenner, reveal the backstory of this irresistible look at the larger-than-life cultural figures of our time as you have never seen them.

Face to Face: The Photographs of Camilla McGrath

Di Robilant, Andrea

Lebowitz, Fran

McGrath, Camilla

Dunne, Griffin

Fremont, Vincent

Ford, Harrison

Individual Artists

KNOPF

For the past 39 years, the covers of Rolling Stone have depicted the great icons of popular culture, from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and Madonna to Steve Martin, Uma Thurman, and Richard Nixon. Often it was an appearance on the cover that launched a performer’s legendary status in the first place. An enormous hit when it appeared in 1997 as Rolling Stone: The Complete Covers, 1967-1997 (nearly 100,000 copies sold in all editions), this fantastic collection has been revised and updated to include the covers since 1997 up to the much-publicized 1,000th cover, slated to hit newsstands in May 2006. With an updated introduction by Jann S. Wenner as well as new excerpts from the magazine and quotes from photographers and their celebrity subjects, this nostalgic journey down the memory lane of pop music, entertainment, and politics is irresistible.

Rolling Stone 1,000 Covers: A History of the Most Influential Magazine in Pop Culture

Stone, Rolling

Graphic Design

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Twenty Years of Rolling Stone 1967-1987: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Lennon Remembers: The "Rolling Stones" Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Talmy,Franklin Ltd

Gonzo is a tour de force that will take you into the world of American writer and iconoclast Hunter S. Thompson.

Gonzo: The Life Of Hunter S. Thompson

Seymour, Corey

Humor & Entertainment

SPHERE

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