New here and had a question. Did the "British" Version of Rolling Stone, to be published by Mick Jagger, ever happen. Here is Jann Wenner with Mick signing the contract in 1969.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014-06-12 18:58 by bluegreenvinyl.

I've found this via wikipedia, though there's no mention of Mick's involvement with it. Maybe somebody from UK can tell us more about it.

"Friends magazine was launched in London in winter 1969 as a direct result of the closure by its US parent of the short-lived UK edition of Rolling Stone.

The magazine was first published by Alan Marcuson in December 1969 as Friends of Rolling Stone. It was later retitled Friends and, from May 1971, Frendz. Friends was intimately connected with UK underground media such as Oz, International Times (IT) and Time Out, and had many contributors who were part of the London counterculture or avant-garde scene in the 1960s. These included Barney Bubbles, Pennie Smith and Charles Radcliffe.

The magazine ceased publication in August 1972."

[www.ibiblio.org]

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Cristiano Radtke
I've found this via wikipedia, though there's no mention of Mick's involvement with it. Maybe somebody from UK can tell us more about it.

"Friends magazine was launched in London in winter 1969 as a direct result of the closure by its US parent of the short-lived UK edition of Rolling Stone.

The magazine was first published by Alan Marcuson in December 1969 as Friends of Rolling Stone. It was later retitled Friends and, from May 1971, Frendz. Friends was intimately connected with UK underground media such as Oz, International Times (IT) and Time Out, and had many contributors who were part of the London counterculture or avant-garde scene in the 1960s. These included Barney Bubbles, Pennie Smith and Charles Radcliffe.

The magazine ceased publication in August 1972."



[www.ibiblio.org]

In Prince Rupert's book he talks about the attempts made for the Stones to get a lone to fund Rolling Stone as a joint JW stones venture but RLs bank did not consider MJ loan worthy .....

In the 70s, and early 80s there was definitely a UK published version of Rolling Stone. I strongly suspect that The Rolling Stones had nothing at all to do with it.

It was based on the USA version. It had some UK only articles, and did not carry all of the USA articles, and (I seem to recall) was shorter/lighter than the USA version.

I had a subscription for about 10 years, but gave up when the original mix of music and interest in radical politics was replaced by the start of the celebrity cult, and music seemed to take a second place.

I swapped my collection with a fellow collector for some other stuff.

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Captain Corella
60 Years a Fan

I'm almost sure that this pic probably was posted here before, but since it fits perfectly on this thread, I think it's worth to repost it. I've found it on this website.

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Cristiano Radtke
I'm almost sure that this pic probably was posted here before, but since it fits perfectly on this thread, I think it's worth to repost it. I've found it on this website.

Cristiano -- I'd never seen this! I'm supposing it was meant tongue-in-cheek?

- swiss

Hahaha, that is hilarious! ><