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EPISODE · Apr 22, 2026 · 42 MIN

How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while

from Talk Cocktail · host Jeff Schechtman

My California Sun conversation with Peter Richardson, author of the new book “Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine.” A time when the media had a different kind of power — between 1967 and 1977 — when the Bay Area’s counterculture reshaped music and the journalism. From Haight-Ashbury to the Fillmore, Hunter S. Thompson to Annie Leibovitz, the magazine documented a social revolution while simultaneously creating it. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

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