Throughout his five decades at Rolling Stone, the magazine’s co-founder Jann Wenner wrote hundreds of articles and spent time with some of the biggest names in music — Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon and Bob Dylan, to name a few — and politics, too, including presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as vice president Al Gore.
Talking upon the publication of his new memoir, “Like a Rolling Stone,” Wenner said he looks back on those experiences fondly and that writing the book gave him a new appreciation for the past 50 years.
“It was fun,” he said of the process during a recent phone interview. “When you’re doing something like that, it means going back to the past to recall these things and you put yourself back into that emotional and physical state so you can describe all of the essential details. I essentially relived every moment of my life in doing this and it was a fabulous experience.”
