Rolling Stone magazine No 171 October 7 1974 David Bowie Moody Blues Hunter S Thompson

Rolling Stone magazine No 171 October 7 1974

IN THIS ISSUE

Fear & Loathing (The Scum Also Rises) By Hunter S. Thompson 17
It has not been one of those fabled fortnights at ROLLING STONE World
Headquarters here on the fourth floor of our converted warehouse
in San Francisco. No sooner had the Great Deadline swooped down
to take one of our number to the Land of Overmatter than seven
longhaired carpenters appeared with claw hammers and snagtooth
saws on a preordained schedule to tear down the walls of the Editor-
ial and Art Departments and rebuild them for more efficient opera-
tions. Naturally work on the new office spaces fell behind and had
to be stopped as production rolled into high gear for the final four
days of deadline; the whole floor is a shambles as we go to press. ...

All this we should have taken in stride. But by karmic coincidence
the feature section this issue included articles by both David Stone
Cutter Felton and Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Felton bears that nick-
name from his days at The Los Angeles Times, when he produced
about one story per solstice, if those editors were vicious enough.
His new monicker, Deadline Dave, is our own, explained perhaps
by the five excruciating months that went into Jive Times. Of
course, its been worth it.

To schedule Dr. Thompson in the same issue was taking our bone-
fingered production crew and speedcrazed copy staff to the very
edge, but we figured we would be able to cope. Under the care-
fully wrought pretense of a printers union holiday, we succeeded in
having Dr. Thompson file on a shadow deadline after a | 13-hour
straight run. But then, with 24 hours left before the presses would
begin to groan, the horrible news came of Gerald Ford's forgive-
ness. We were obliged to have our on-call thug installed in the at-
tic of the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado, for just such occasions
break into Thompsons house and.drag him half-numb to the War
Room, where an IBM Selectric typewriter is patched directly to a
Xerox Telecopier, to update the Nixon story.

Jive Times: Introduction By David Felton 22
Richard Pryor By David Felton 24
The Unsolved Break-Ins By Robert Fink 36

DEPARTMENTS 
Letters 4
Music 6
Singles 12
Random Notes  16
Records 40

Founded in California, by Jann Wenner back in 1967 Rolling Stone Magazine delved deep into the music world and frequently tackled political issues. In the first edition 11/9/1967 Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about music, but about things & attitudes that the music scene embraces. However it quickly distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time embracing traditional journalism & avoiding the radical politics championed by the underground press.