On this day 40 years ago Rolling Stone published its first issue. The title comes from the Bob Dylan song “Like a rolling stone“. It looked a little different back then – no shiny glossy cover. But its founder Jann Wenner is still the editor and publisher.
The obvious choice for the first cover was John Lennon, a popular entertainer at that time who composed, sang and played guitar, and who’d just finished filming the Richard Lester film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061789/"How I Won the War.
The Mudd subscribes to Rolling Stone and keeps the paper copies for a year. We also have R.S. on microfilm from January, 1978 to June, 2002 for all your fogey rock needs.