Rolling Stone Magazine

Rolling Stone Collection

New York, New York: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1980 -1983. First edition. Staplebound. Third Mind Books proudly offers the Rolling Stone Collection, consisting of thirty-three issues spanning the years 1980-1983, along with an additional vintage issue of Record, a Rolling Stone publication from 1983. These issues, all complete & in near fine or better condition, are a record of popular/countercultural concerns with an emphasis on contemporary musicians. They are a time capsule, with astonishingly young-looking, up-&-coming figures who are now venerable pillars of the music-entertainment establishment gracing the iconic covers. In a few notorious cases, there are the images of those who did not live beyond their era being celebrated & analyzed as it happened. here are the issues, in chronological order: # 325- Sept. 4, 1980 Billy Joel illustrated on cover, & interviewed.# 326- Sept. 18, 1980 "Rodney Dangerfield: He Whines That We May Laugh" with RD & Baby photographed on cover.# 327- Oct. 2, 1980 "Robert Redford: More Than a Pretty Face" cover photo & interview.# 330- November 13, 1980 Mary Tyler Moore photo on cover, "Ordinary People", "The Elephant Man" on stage with David Bowie.# 333/334- Dec. 25, 1980-Jan. 8, 1981 "The Year in Music and Entertainment" double issue.# 337- Feb. 19, 1981 Photo of The Police on cover, John Huston interview.# 338- March 5, 1981 Goldie Hawn photo on cover, Article by Ken Kesey on John Lennon.# 339- March 19, 1981 Cover photo of Warren Zevon being drawn & quartered, article by Kurt Vonnegut.# 341- April 16, 1981 "Jack Nicholson: They Used To Hang People For Having This Much Fun" cover photo & article.# 343- May 14, 1981 "Inside the Gun Lobby" (in the wake of John Lennon's murder)# 346- June 25th, 1981 Photo of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones on cover, Bob Marley obituary# 353- Oct. 1, 1981 "Yoko Ono: An Intimate Conversation" with cover photo.# 355- Oct. 29, 1981 "Elvis: The Party Years" by Albert Goldman, with vintage EP photo on cover.# 356- Nov. 12, 1981 "Keith Richards: No Regrets, The Rolling Stone Interview" with KR photo on cover.# 358- Dec. 10, 1981 "Carly (Simon): Life Without James (Taylor) with CS & child cover photo.# 359/360- Dec. 24, 1981-Jan. 7, 1982 "1981 In Photos Yearbook" double issue.# 362- Feb. 4, 1982 Timothy Hutton cover photo & article.# 363- Feb. 18, 1982 "Steve Martin Sings: The Rolling Stone Interview" with artful cover photo of SM.# 364- March 4, 1982 J. Geils' Peter Wolf cover photo, article.# 365- March 18, 1982 Simon & Garfunkel cover photo & article, "Francis Coppola: The RS Interview."# 366- April 1, 1982 Warren Beatty cover photo & article, Thelonious Monk obituary.# 367- April 15, 1982 Mariel Hemingway cover photo, Ken Kesey article.# 368- April 29, 1982 Somber John Belushi cover photo & many memorial reminiscences.# 369- May 13, 1982 Sissy Spacek cover photo, investigative article on John Belushi's death.# 370- May 27, 1982 Natassia Kinsky cover & inside photos by Richard Avedon, & profile article.# 377- Sept. 2, 1982 "Elvis Costello Repents: The Rolling Stone Interview", EC cover photo.# 379- Sept. 30, 1982 Richard Gere cover photo & article, "The Untold Story of the Weather Underground."# 380- October 14, 1982 John & Yoko cover photo & article, "The Private Years."# 383- November 25, 1982 Matt Dillon cover photo & article, "The Legend of Owsley: LSD Millionaire."# 385/386- Dec. 23, 1982-Jan. 6, 1983 "Special Double Issue: 1982 Photo Yearbook."# 389- Feb. 17, 1983 "Michael Jackson: Life as a Man" article & MJ cover photoVol. 2, #7- May 1983 Record: A Rolling Stone Publication, "David Bowie: The Record Interview", DB cover photo.# 395- May 12, 1983 "David Bowie Straight" article & DB cover photo, George Balanchine interview.# 397- June 9, 1983 "Looking for Mr. Goodbody: Health Clubs: The New Singles Bars" article & cover photo. Each issue is full of reviews of contemporary releases, especially music, articles & interviews on the most urgent topics of the day by legendary journalists, photos by Annie Lebowitz & other greats in their prime, & of course ads for LP records in the last years before CDs ascended, hit movies like E.T., the latest contemporary fashions & cutting-edge stereo technology that has been left in the dust. Most issues are in Very Fine condition, with only yellowing to some of the newsprint-quality pages, closed tears around some staples & very minor tears to some edges. Not entirely contiguous, but a large, representative collection of this iconic publication during a critical period in our history. Near Fine to Very Fine [Item #1604]