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How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while

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Talk Cocktail
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Apr 22, 2026
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Summary

My California Sun conversation with Peter Richardson , author of the new book “ Brand New Beat : The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine.” A time when the media had a different kind of power — between 1967 and 1977 — when the Bay Area’s counterculture reshaped music and the journalism. From Haight-Ashbury to the Fillmore, Hunter S. Thompson to Annie Leibovitz, the magazine documented a social revolution while simultaneously creating it. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe