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EPISODE · Apr 16, 2026 · 42 MIN

Peter Richardson on how Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while

from California Sun Podcast · host Jeff Schechtman

Peter Richardson, author of the new book "Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine," discusses the pioneering music magazine's San Francisco decade — between 1967 and 1977 — when the Bay Area's counterculture reshaped music and the journalism that covered it. From Haight-Ashbury to the Fillmore, Hunter S. Thompson to Annie Leibovitz, the magazine documented a social revolution while simultaneously creating it.

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