The decadent behaviour of Rolling Stone magazine's staff
Daily MailWhen magazine mogul Jann Wenner saw Mick Jagger and his star photographer Annie Leibovitz wandering up from a Barbados beach at midnight, he couldn’t help notice the Rolling Stone’s knees were covered in sand. Rolling Stone magazine tore into Jagger, saying the festival had been the ‘product of diabolical egotism, high ineptitude … and a fundamental lack of concern for humanity’. Asked by Hagan whether they did anything untoward, Wenner laughed and said: ‘I neither confirm nor deny.’ Annie Lelbovitz got clean-cut David Cassidy to pose nude for the Rolling Stones cover Wenner wouldn’t have been the only staff member at Rolling Stone spending time with Jagger. He didn’t grace Rolling Stone’s front cover again for 35 years, a fact which Elton’s manager and ex-lover, John Reid, blamed on Wenner’s ‘ambivalence’ about his own homosexuality.
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