The Best of "Rolling Stone": Classic Writing from the World's Most Influent ial Music Magazine

US: Virgin Books, 1994. Very Good. Rolling Stone" is one of the most influential rock magazines in the world, and over the last 25 years it has published some of the most innovative, p owerful and evocative writing. It was "Rolling Stone" which first published Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", and "Rolling Stone" which first featured Greil Marcus's writ ing on the Elvis phenomenon and "The Plague Years", and David Black's accou nt of the arrival of the AIDS epidemic in New York. All these pieces, and d ozens more, are collected in this book, an anthology of the very best in po pular American journalism. From Ken Kesey writing on the search for the sec ret pyramid to P.J. O'Rourke's visit to the Philippines, which was recounte d in "400 Years a Convent, 50 a Whorehouse", this is a brash and provocativ e collection of 25 years of journalism.