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 philosophy 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 1975 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

Interviews have included:

  • Pete Townshend, September 28, 1968 [1]
  • Eric Clapton, May 11, 1968
  • Frank Zappa, July 20, 1968
  • Mick Jagger, October 12, 1968
  • Cass Elliot, October 26, 1968
  • John Lennon, November 23, 1968
  • Chuck Berry, June 14, 1969
  • Bob Dylan, November 29, 1969 [2]
  • John Fogerty, February 21, 1970
  • Little Richard, May 28, 1969
  • Grace Slick, November 12, 1970
  • Keith Richards, August 19, 1971
  • Jerry Garcia, January 20, 1972
  • Paul Simon, July 20m 1972
  • James Taylor and Carly Simon, January 4, 1973
  • Elton John, August 16, 1973
  • Daniel Ellsburg, November 8, 1973
  • Eric Clapton, July 18, 1974
  • Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, March 13, 1975
  • John Lennon, June 5, 1975 [3]
  • David Bowie, February 12, 1976
  • Marlon Brando, May 20, 1976
  • Bob Dylan, Januuary 26, 1978
  • Mick Jagger, June 29, 1978
  • Linda Ronstadt, October 19, 1978
  • Bob Dylan, November 16, 1978
  • Johnny Carson, March 23, 1979
  • Joni Mitchell, July 26, 1979
  • Susan Sontag, October 4, 1979
  • Francis Ford Coppola, November 1, 1979
  • Tom Wolfe, August 21, 1980
  • Keith Richards, November 12, 1981
  • Steve Martin, February 18, 1982
  • Elvis Costello, September 2, 1982
  • Joan Baez, April 14, 1983
  • Jack Nicholson, March 29, 1984
  • Bob Dylan, June 21, 1984
  • Bruce Springsteen, December 6, 1984
  • Clint Eastwood, July 4, 1985
  • Eric Clapton, June 20, 1985
  • Desmond Tutu, November 21, 1985
  • Bob Gelddof, December 5, 1985
  • John Mellencamp, January 18, 1986
  • The Everly Brothers, May 8, 1986
  • Jack Nicholson, August 14, 1986
  • Tina Turner, October 23, 1986
  • Bo Diddley, February 12, 1987
  • Woody Allen, April 9, 1987
  • Sting, February 11, 1988
  • David Byrne, April 21, 1988
  • Neil Young, June 2, 1988
  • Keith Richards, Ocober 6, 1988
  • Lou Reed, May 4, 1989
  • Axl Rose, August 10, 1989
  • Jerry Garcia, November 30, 1989
  • Bonnie Raitt, May 3, 1990
  • Sinead O'Connor, March 7, 1991
  • Madonna, June 13, 1991
  • Eric Clapton, October 17, 1991
  • Michael Stipe, March 5, 1992
  • Noam Chomsky, May 28, 1992
  • Tim Burton, July 9, 1992 [4]
  • Bill Clinton, September 17, 1992
  • Mick Jagger, December 14, 1995 [5]
  • Steve Jobs, 2003 [6]
  • Bono, 2005 [7]