For its 50th Anniversary, Rolling Stone's 1000th Issue

It was on this day in 1967 that the first issue of Rolling Stone was published. It was started by 21-year-old Jann Wenner, who dropped out of Berkeley and borrowed $7,500 from family members and people on a mailing list that he stole from a local radio station, and with that money, he managed to put together a magazine.

The cover of the first issue featured John Lennon, and in it, Wenner wrote, "Rolling Stone is not just about music, but also about the things and attitudes that the music embraces."

He printed 40,000 copies, and 34,000 were returned unsold. But soon Rolling Stone had a devoted group of readers, partly because there were some great writers there. Probably the most famous of these journalists was Hunter S. Thompson, who showed up at Jann Wenner's office in 1970 with a case of beer and an offer to write for Rolling Stone. The next year, he serialized Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the magazine's pages. Today, Rolling Stone has a circulation of about 1.4 million, is smaller and published less frequently, and is for sale as Wenner deals with a tell-all authorized biography he now wishes he hadn’t authorized.

To celebrate, Henry’s has two copies of Rolling Stone’s thousandth edition on sale:

Rolling Stone Issue 1000, May 18-June 1, 2006. The famous Sgt. Pepper-style cover, in 3-D, front and back. 236 pages, pre-downsizing dimensions. HBB has two copies, $25 ea.

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