The images couldn't have been more different. The cover of the September 20th, 1969, issue of Rolling Stone showed a man and a child bathing in the nude in a lake, the essence of hippie gentility. A few months later, the photo on the cover of RS 50 [January 21st, 1970] was a grim antithesis: a huddled, anxious-looking crowd, shards of sunlight trying to poke through the
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Rolling Stone at 50: Shaping Contrasting Narratives of Woodstock, Altamont