Jann Wenner
Magazine publisher
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- Full Name
- Jann S. Wenner
- Date of Birth
- 01/07/1946 (63 years old)
- Place of Birth
- New York, NY
- High School
- Chadwick School
- Neighborhood
- Upper West Side
- Other Residences
- Montauk, NY
Sun Valley, ID
Tivoli, NY
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Posted: 9:56AM on Nov 19, 2009
Jeff Beck Band, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Aretha Franklin, Metallica, Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, U2 and Stevie Wonder are among the featured performers.
Jeff Beck Band, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Aretha Franklin, Metallica, Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, U2 and Stevie Wonder are among the featured performers.
Pastiche: Let Us Now Praise Not-So-Famous Men (Austinist)
Posted: 1:15PM on Nov 17, 2009Editor's note: Pastiche is an occasional column exploring the diversity within the Austin music community. The views expressed in Pastiche are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the outlook or beliefs of anyone else in the IST network. On the seventh floor of the mammoth white Alkek Library at Texas State University in San Marcos are the Wittliff Collections, which ...
The Shake, Rattle, Decline and Fall of American Empire [Charts & Graphs] (Gawker)
Posted: 7:29AM on Nov 11, 2009This graph is the key to everything and it will soon be a book from HarperCollins. ("Everything" means Jann Wenner, Baby Boomers, mass culture, and the death of liberal consensus and middle class...
Fussy Franklin Threatened To Pull Out Of Hall Of Fame Show Over Air Issue (New Kerala)
Posted: 5:51AM on Nov 14, 2009November 14, 2009: Soul diva ARETHA FRANKLIN threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organisers couldn't promise to shut off all ventilation at Madison Square Garden in New York while she was in the building.
Posted: 6:17PM on Nov 13, 2009
Soul diva ARETHA FRANKLIN threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organisers couldn't promise...
Soul diva ARETHA FRANKLIN threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organisers couldn't promise...
Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner And Steven Spielberg’s Kids’ Rock Band (Defamer)
Posted: 11:42AM on Nov 02, 2009Happy November: You’re about to watch rock history be made. Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s youngest kid, Gus, has a musical act with Steven Spielberg’s daughter. “It’s like the nepotistic She and Him,” writes our tipster. So, how many stars? (more…)
Bomb Squad (Columbia Journalism Review)
Posted: 12:19PM on Nov 12, 2009It only took a few years for Ramparts to evolve from an earnest Catholic lay magazine published in the suburbs of San Mateo County to a high-spending, scoop-breaking, muckraking journal whose San Francisco offices were graced by shotgun-wielding Black Panthers and a masturbating pet monkey.
Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band [Awesome Things] (Gawker)
Posted: 10:13AM on Nov 01, 2009Happy November: You're about to watch rock history be made. Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner's youngest kid, Gus, has a musical act with Steven Spielberg's daughter. "It's like the nepotistic She...
Is it time to close down the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? (Los Angeles Times)
Posted: 9:25PM on Nov 05, 2009The Hall of Fame is a notoriously top-down institution, with an elite group of insiders making up a nominating committee that pre-selects their own idiosyncratic idea of the worthy candidates.
Metallica is still angry after all these years (The Buffalo News)
Posted: 4:16AM on Nov 06, 2009I liked the album cover. It really was as simple as that. Not so much the artwork on the front of the package, which depicted an electric chair with the album's moniker, “Ride the Lightning,” displayed with an alarming lack of taste beneath it.
