The Past Is a Source of Knowledge
For the last few days, I've been rummaging through my 20+ year collection of Rolling Stone magazine as I prepare to abandon my print copies in favor of the new CD-ROM collection of the magazine. There is one issue (technically two, I guess, since it's a year-end double-issue) that hasn't held up very well and is an immediate candidate for the recylcling pile. That would be the 1982 Photo Yearbook issue, comprising issue number 385 & 386, with a publication date of December 23, 1982-January 6, 1983.
It's pretty much a vacation issue for the magazine's staff, comprised largely of photos of musicians, celebrities, and newsmakers from the last 12 months. There is a blistering article by William Greider titled "What Reagan has done to America" and a review of the year's 40 best albums (a list that includes Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, The Clash's Combat Rock, and John Cougar's American Fool (!)). There's also a "Final Tributes" section that acknowledges the deaths of prominent musicians, celebrities, and newsmakers from the last 12 months. (I hope everyone at the magazine had a nice long vacation.) The first page of the section is devoted to John Belushi and contains the lyrics of a song ("That Lonesome Road") performed at his funeral by James Taylor and Don Grolnick (a song that has since been covered by the Dixie Chicks, among others).
Most of the rest of the magazine is taken up by amusing blurbs about the year's events, which become all the more amusing with 25 years of hindsight. A few highlights:
Idaho rep Larry Craig bludgeons rumor to death
Idaho representative Larry Craig called a press conference to announce that he was not--repeat, not--one of the congressmen in the Capitol Hill gay sex scandal.
from the Photos section:
It was business as usual as the Who toured the U.S. for what may be the last time: Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend quarreled, huge crowds turned out to see them, and they earned millions of dollars.
and I found this item personally relevant and somewhat gratifying:
Cliff-hanger Notes
Graduate student Donald M. Judson was disciplined by officials of Ohio's Bowling Green University after he pulled out a pistol and played Russian roulette in front of the creative-writing class he was teaching. "I was trying to demonstrate to the students the intensity of an experience," Judson explained, adding that one student told him it was "the only interesting thing that happened to her in four years at the university."
Judson is now in his late 50's and has a rather colorful past, as this article explains. Nice to see that he made it this far.
It's pretty much a vacation issue for the magazine's staff, comprised largely of photos of musicians, celebrities, and newsmakers from the last 12 months. There is a blistering article by William Greider titled "What Reagan has done to America" and a review of the year's 40 best albums (a list that includes Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, The Clash's Combat Rock, and John Cougar's American Fool (!)). There's also a "Final Tributes" section that acknowledges the deaths of prominent musicians, celebrities, and newsmakers from the last 12 months. (I hope everyone at the magazine had a nice long vacation.) The first page of the section is devoted to John Belushi and contains the lyrics of a song ("That Lonesome Road") performed at his funeral by James Taylor and Don Grolnick (a song that has since been covered by the Dixie Chicks, among others).
Most of the rest of the magazine is taken up by amusing blurbs about the year's events, which become all the more amusing with 25 years of hindsight. A few highlights:
Idaho rep Larry Craig bludgeons rumor to death
Idaho representative Larry Craig called a press conference to announce that he was not--repeat, not--one of the congressmen in the Capitol Hill gay sex scandal.
from the Photos section:
It was business as usual as the Who toured the U.S. for what may be the last time: Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend quarreled, huge crowds turned out to see them, and they earned millions of dollars.
and I found this item personally relevant and somewhat gratifying:
Cliff-hanger Notes
Graduate student Donald M. Judson was disciplined by officials of Ohio's Bowling Green University after he pulled out a pistol and played Russian roulette in front of the creative-writing class he was teaching. "I was trying to demonstrate to the students the intensity of an experience," Judson explained, adding that one student told him it was "the only interesting thing that happened to her in four years at the university."
Judson is now in his late 50's and has a rather colorful past, as this article explains. Nice to see that he made it this far.
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