A great tasting romp through the heyday of stone and a uncovering portrait of the man on the helm of the iconic journal that made it all possible, with candid appear backs on the period from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others.

The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone’s founder, editor, and publisher, as well as the pioneering period he helped curate, can be told here for the first time in glittering, glorious details. Joe Hagan provides readers about Sticky Fingertips: The Life and Occasions of Jann Wenner and Rolling Rock Magazine having a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star resort rooms; he tells never before heard tales about the lives of rock stars and their handlers; he details the daring journalism (Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O’Rourke) and internecine workplace politics that accompanied the start-up; he animates the medication and intimate appetites of the era; and he reviews within the politics of the last fifty years which were often chronicled in the pages of Rolling Rock magazine.

Supplemented by a cache of remarkable documents and characters from Wenner’s personal archives, Sticky Fingers depicts an ambitious, mercurial, wide-eyed rock and roll lover of who exalts in youth and beauty and learns how to package it, marketing late sixties counterculture as a testament to the power of American youth. The result is definitely a fascinating and complex family portrait of guy and era, and an irresistible biography of popular culture, celebrity, music, and politics in America.