Fifty years ago, a 21-year-old Berkeley College dropout and journalist named Jann Wenner was cobbling together a new kind of magazine that, in his words, would take rock music seriously. The first issue of Rolling Stone appeared in print on November 9th, 1967. Over the next 50 years, more than a thousand issues (and counting) would follow.
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