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In the explosive Sticky Fingers, biographer Joe Hagan attempts to dissect Rolling Stone founder and industry-influencer Jann Wenner through a alternation of interviews with artists, friends, Stone writers, and an blasting of Wenner’s well-kept, neck-deep archives. The biography, which has been in the works for four years and is the publishing world’s third attack at a adventures of the overparticular media figure, has fatigued the ire of its subject—like atrociously honest works generally do. Since account the book, Wenner has alien Hagan to a chat the two were appointed to accept at the 92Y and, in a actual 2017 twist, unfollowed the biographer of his adventures on Instagram.

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The 574 pages detail aggregate from Wenner’s decades-long, bitter accord with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Mick Jagger/Wenner activating that was prompted by Wenner’s ballsy naming of the magazine, the magazine’s advantage of the agitated adversity that was the Altamont Chargeless Concert, and abundant to Wenner’s displeasure, his biologic use and sexuality. Wenner spent best of his career in the accessible eye as a apparently beeline man with a wife, Jane, but Hagan hints at a triangle amid ancient Rolling Stone columnist Annie Leibowitz and the Wenners (he alike includes that one of the two adored Leibowitz during an overdose) and interviews Wenner’s accomplished macho partners.

Sticky Fingers won’t hit the shelves until October 24. Here’s some of what we’ve learned about Wenner from excerpts, interviews, and reviews of the book appropriately far.

Wenner had a actual complicated accord with Mick Jagger.

The annual was a battlefield through its careful advantage and anthology reviews; Rolling Stone’s targeting of Paul Simon, who had banned to be interviewed for Sticky Fingers, dates aback to Wenner’s academy days when they both had absorption in the aforementioned woman.

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Most fascinating, about is Wenner’s accord with Mick Jagger, abundant abundantly in an excerpt featured on Vulture. Back his accord with Mick Jagger flourished as the two partnered up over a British copy of Rolling Stone, a song-by-song examination of the band’s 1968 album Beggars Banquet lauded it as the band’s best assignment appropriately far. As British Rolling Stone’s offices fell afar in the brume of drugs, their accord grew complicated. The coverage of the deaths at Rolling Stones’ chargeless Altamont Speedway show, which the annual had characterized as a “product of a awful egotism, aerial ineptitude, money manipulation, and, at base, a axiological abridgement of affair for humanity,” didn’t do Wenner any favors. But Wenner was absorbed on befitting Jagger on his side, by giving the rockstar the December 1970 cover and shelving affairs for a book on the Altamonte tragedy.

“They admired anniversary other; they didn’t like anniversary other,” recalled Diane von Furstenberg, the appearance artisan and administrator who befriended both men in the aboriginal 1970s. “Mick consistently anticipation that Jann took advantage of him.”

To add an added band to their accommodating yet cagey relationship, there was addition band to Wenner’s allure with Jagger. In an account with Pete Townshend of the Who, we apprentice he and Wenner watched the Rolling Stones almanac for their album Let It Bleed. According to Townshend, the two sat in the berth and silently fawned over the singer. “It angry out that he, like me, harbored an admiration of Mick Jagger that was not absolutely heterosexual,” Townshend said.

Wenner and Rolling Stone played a key allotment in Lennon’s media trajectory, from the inaugural Lennon awning to the 1981 affair canonizing his life.

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Wenner’s discrimination leeched into his accord with the actual Beatles, conspicuously Paul McCartney. In an account with Billboard, Hagan addendum the acerbity McCartney acquainted for Wenner, from RS’s coverage of the above Beatle to his “shafting” at the Wenner-cofounded Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.

When you accredit to McCartney’s “grievances,” he acquainted that Rolling Stone angry John Lennon into a “martyr” afterwards his annihilation and, in the process, overshadowed McCartney’s own achievements.

It was consistently his altercation that Jann and Yoko basically collaborated to about-face Lennon into the Christ figure. Alike afore the interview, I’d heard that Jann and Paul didn’t get along, partly because Jann was afflicted by Yoko. And, Yoko and Paul are not the best of pals. I’ve got to acquaint you, activity into some of these interviews, I was thinking, “This all happened in the ’60s and they’re over it by now.” But you apperceive what? They never get over it.

McCartney additionally was hurt that he was asked to conscript John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but again wasn’t inducted himself until two years later, admitting what he anticipation was a affiance that he’d get the nod the afterward year. Do you anticipate that it was deliberate or an oversight?

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Jann’s altercation is that he absolutely doesn’t accept ascendancy over it — and that if Paul anticipation that he had fabricated that deal, it was a confounding on Paul’s part. I didn’t do an analytic address there. I’ll leave that to addition anchorman who wants to boldness that for all time.

To me the absolute takeaway is that everybody believes Jann has his deride on the calibration back it comes to who gets into the Hall of Fame. And that Jann doesn’t go out of his way to abolish bodies of that. The biggest red flag, I suppose, is that many bodies attack to Jann for their artisan to get into the Hall of Fame, because they accept that if Jann would like that artisan to be in the Hall of Fame, it will happen.

Despite the favorable light Wenner had use to characterize Lennon, his accord with the artisan was, in his own words, broke by his greed. An excerpt published by Vanity Fair capacity the agitated accord Wenner had with John Lennon and Yoko Ono; a mutually benign accord amid the three had attenuated afterwards Wenner went to publishers with the brutal “Lennon Remembers” account that he insisted break in Rolling Stone’s pages. “That was one of the better mistakes I made,” Wenner said in Sticky Fingers. “I chose the money over the friendship.”

For the beyond allotment of a decade, Wenner had collapsed out of favor in the Lennon-Ono home, until an olive annex came in the anatomy of Annie Leibowitz’ iconic photos of the pair, taken the day Lennon was shot. The images became a focal point of Wenner’s canonizing Lennon issue, forth with a handwritten bulletin from Wenner accounting in the bounden of every copy: I adulation you. I absence you. You’re with god. I’ll do what I said. “Yoko, authority on” — I’ll accomplish sure, I promise. XXX

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