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    Rolling Stone magazine was founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine focused primarily on music and politics in its early years, featuring iconic musicians like John Lennon on its covers. Over time, Rolling Stone expanded its scope to cover more popular culture topics to appeal to younger audiences. The magazine has undergone several format changes over the decades in terms of paper quality, size, and layout. Today, Rolling Stone operates a website and app with expanded coverage of music, entertainment, and cultural news, and also hosts annual music festivals.

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    Rolling Stone magazine was founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine focused primarily on music and politics in its early years, featuring iconic musicians like John Lennon on its covers. Over time, Rolling Stone expanded its scope to cover more popular culture topics to appeal to younger audiences. The magazine has undergone several format changes over the decades in terms of paper quality, size, and layout. Today, Rolling Stone operates a website and app with expanded coverage of music, entertainment, and cultural news, and also hosts annual music festivals.

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    Rolling Stone magazine was founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine focused primarily on music and politics in its early years, featuring iconic musicians like John Lennon on its covers. Over time, Rolling Stone expanded its scope to cover more popular culture topics to appeal to younger audiences. The magazine has undergone several format changes over the decades in terms of paper quality, size, and layout. Today, Rolling Stone operates a website and app with expanded coverage of music, entertainment, and cultural news, and also hosts annual music festivals.

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    Complete Analysis: Rolling Stone

    Magazine
    Rolling Stone magazine was founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner in San
    Francisco. The first issue was published on 9th November
    1967. It was sold for 25 cents. A new issue came out
    approximately every fortnight. The title was based on the
    Rolling Stones band, as well as a song with this name by
    Muddy Waters and the song Like a Rolling Stone by Bob
    Dylan. It also came from the old saying a rolling stone
    gathers no moss.
    The magazine focused on John Lennon; he was the main
    cover image. This immediately shows that the magazine
    has a large focus on music because Lennon and the
    Beatles were an iconic band of the 1960s. The image is a still from his
    movie How I Won the War, which was based on World War II. This suggests
    that the magazine focused on politics as well as music. The genre of music
    the magazine focused on was rock and roll, because Jann Wenner, the
    editor, stated in his letter that the magazine was reflecting what we see
    as the changes in rock and roll and the changes related to rock and roll.
    The further issues of the 1960s emphasise the focus
    Rolling Stone magazine had on music. The cover of the
    second issue only focused on Bob Dylan, and the third
    again focused on the Beatles, but this time the whole
    band along with a group of people were on the main
    image.

    From the first issue of the magazine, the target


    audience has been young adults. This is due to the
    political content that might not be as interesting to
    teenagers, and the rock and roll content was aimed
    at older people because popular
    culture was more of an interest for
    teenagers. However, during the
    1990s the magazine began to focus
    more on popular culture so that a
    younger target audience would be
    appealed to. This was one of the largest
    change made to Rolling Stone
    magazine. The overall format of the
    magazine has been changed several
    times. The magazine took the form of a newspaper from
    1967 to 1972. The only thing that distinguished each
    issue was a single colour highlight. This was either on the
    title or around the main image if the issue was a special
    edition. The rest of the magazine was black and white.
    The process changed to a four colour press, so the pages
    were full colour, and the magazine was made in a different size. Barcodes
    began to appear on the magazine front covers in 1979. The finish of the
    paper used for the magazine was changed in 1980; they were printed on
    glossy paper, and the size of the magazine was increased to 10 x 12.
    The magazine was made smaller in 2008 so that it was easier to carry
    about.
    There are some multi platform aspects of Rolling Stone magazine, such
    as the website designed to accompany it. There are several different
    features on the site there are tabs for politics, music, TV, movies,
    culture, sports, reviews, and RS Country which focuses
    on country music. This shows that the magazine has
    much more of a wider focus compared to when it was
    founded in the 1960s. On each tab there is recent
    news about each topic, and all of the news about the
    topic is kept on the website. There is also an app
    available for Apple and Android.
    The magazine holds musical events such as the
    Rolling Stone Weekender
    which is held every year in Germany. The event
    began in 2009, and this year bands such as Of
    Monsters and Men and Alabama Shakes are
    performing, as well as solo artists including
    Jamie Lawson.
    Something distinctive about the modern day
    covers of Rolling Stone magazine is that the mast head is always in

    exactly in the same place, whether it is being


    superimposed by the main image or not. Also, the
    colours on the mast head are almost always the same,
    apart from when there is a colour mentioned
    somewhere on the front cover, for example, the mast
    head was changed from red to orange when the issue
    focused on the stars of the TV show Orange is the New
    Black.

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