Rolling Stone
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"In a mixed review of Transformer for Rolling Stone magazine, Nick Tosches highlighted four "quality" songs, including "Satellite of Love" but dismissed most of the album as "artsyfartsy kind of homo stuff" that lacks assertiveness." --Sholem Stein Vince Aletti was the first person to write about disco (in a piece published in Rolling Stone in 1973), writing about early clubs like David Mancuso's Loft in the |
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Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics and popular culture that is published bi-weekly.
In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith and P. J. O'Rourke. It was at this point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories, including that of the Patty Hearst abduction odyssey. One interviewer, speaking for many his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus, describing it as a "rite of passage".
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