The Watergate scandal dominated the news all year long, while the modern skyscraper era began with the opening of the Sears Tower and the World Trade Center. In one of our most historic cover stories, Tom Wolfe's seven-year exploration into the history of America's space program, which would eventually lead to the book The Right Stuff and its film adaptation, begins on the pages of Rolling Stone with this feature on the launch of Apollo 17.
Thirty-four years after he first put on the schoolboy uniform, Angus Young and his blue-collar bandmates return with their best album since 'Back in Black'
A guide to understanding wines of France, how tannins and aging impart flavor, and selecting the right vintner and vintage
On the road in Europe, the shock rocker talks sex, violence and the politics of rock & roll
The singer-songwriters talk "You're So Vain," marriage, addiction and success
The Capetown to Swaziland Blues: Afrikaner politics and principles in apartheid South Africa
Hell's Angels go on trial, as George "Baby Huey" testifies against Sonny Barger and others
Strange memories of a dreary weekend in Los Angeles
Methaqualone, a.k.a. Sopor or Quaalude, is a central nervous system depressant, a sedative-hypnotic. But Quaalude Culture is not without drawbacks
From unknown bar band to the cover of 'Rolling Stone'
The name started simply as a spit in the face of society. We decided on it about 1968: With a name like Alice Cooper we would make 'em suffer.
"When our band goes to a Holiday Inn, we step up in the world," says Springsteen
An investigation into the risks reporters run in doing their job
The Olympic champ moves from Munich triumph to milk ads – but who's running the show?
I'd like to make a movie and show people there's more to me than meets the eye. But that's boring. Pop stars always want to make movies.
He didn't become a dustman: Actor Malcolm McDowell is interviewed on his introduction to theater and how he approached 'A Clockwork Orange'
The J. Geils Band, featuring front man Peter Wolf, meld blues purism and R&B excitement
I don't really miss Paul Simon. I can appreciate his writing and how much I would dig to sing some of the songs, but pretty much the way I would feel about any writer.
The effort to unionize Coachella Valley grape pickers and other farm workers has pitted Cesar Chavez and the UFW against the Teamsters
Watergate: A Summer Recess Reader continues with the wit and wisdom of Chairman Sam Ervin in the Watergate hearings
Alembic, the Grateful Dead's hi-fi sound system engineers and instrument makers, describe their craft and equipment
The enigmatic musician on snakes, his deep discography and learning from Papoose
Mr. Nixon has cashed his check
A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — and the feds have yet to bust the culprits
Singer-songwriter was riding a wave of overdue success before tragedy stuck
The group breaks through with its latest single
Graham Handling 25-City Tour, Elektra-Asylum Said to Have Inside Track on Album
Country is coming into its own, speeping into the ears of long-hairs and cowboys alike, and Waylon digs it
In which a rock & roll band from Dixie struggles in dreary motels, six-session-a-night grinds and a $48,000 debt, then a couple years later plays to sellout crowds for $100,000 a night... all while riding shotgun to death
