Rolling Stone (Issue 489/490, December 18, 1986 - January 1, 1987 Special Double Issue) Magazine (Cover Feature: 1986 Yearbook - The Best in Music and Entertainment)

New York: Straight Arrow Publishers Inc.. A large, left-stapled, magazine with glossy covers and containing 212 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Special Feature State of the Art 1986 (including lengthy photospread Hot Shots; lengthy photospread Music Yearbook 1986); New Age, Old Hat ("Windham Hill and like-minded labels became big business in 1986, but the granola generation's music of choice has its roots in the Sixties and Seventies"); Oops, Wrong Decade ("The stars of the Seventies - the dastardly dinosaur bands and the corporate rockers - came back from exile and made a significant dent in the charts in 1986); Alive and Kickin' ("A year after 'The New York Times' ran its obit, country music is stronger than ever, thanks to artists like Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and Randy Travis"); The Underground Empire ("Thanks to a network of independent labels, radio stations and fanzines, a new generation of guerrilla rock bands is learning how to make music and a living at the same time"); Cos Celebre ("'The Cosby Show' owned 1986, but years from now, we might rather be watching 'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'"); The Year of the Screw-Up ("From Chernobyl to 'Howard the Duck,' everything that went wrong in 1986 can be traced to crack and rap music"); Trite Lights, Pig City by P. J. O'Rourke ("A tour of New York's downtown club scene convinces an aging night crawler that hip isn't hip anymore"); The Loan Star State by Joe Bob Briggs ("This was the year the awl bidness went bad and Texas turned into a giant get-poor-quick scheme"); Tip O'Neill's Last Hurrah by William Greider; Sam Shepard: The Rolling Stone Interview; The Year in Records '86. Condition: in worn outer covers showing a few closed edge tears, particularly nearest outer spine staples; small mailing label to lower left corner of front cover; internal pages in excellent condition. . Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1986.