The Rolling Stone Interview
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The Rolling Stone Interview is a feature article in the American magazine Rolling Stone that sheds light on notable figures from the worlds of music, popular culture, or politics. Editor Jann Wenner has said that the interview is "part[ly] based on The Paris Review, which featured definitive interviews with writers like Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, exploring their lives, their phlosophy and their technique." The interviews are noteworthy for their expasiveness and their ability to delve into the subject's most personal details and experiences.
Subjects of the interviews have ranged from former presidential candidate John Kerry to the landmark 1970 interview with John Lennon. The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 : Talking With the Legend of Rock and Rollis a collection of the most important interviews from the magazine's first fifteen years.
[edit] Interviews
Jerry Garcia, 1972
Bob Dylan, 1969 [1]
Pete Townsend, 1968 [2]
Steve Jobs, 2003
Mick Jagger, 1995 [3]
John Lennon, 1970
Tim Burton, 1992
Bono, 2005
Joni Mitchell, 1979
Axl Rose, 1989
