Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner says he’s sorry for diminishing “the contributions, genius and impact of Black and women artists”
and impact of Black and women artists, and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks,” he said. “is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ’n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career.
Wenner said the quiet part loud for anyone who’s ever wondered why Black and female artists were often denied the preferential treatmentcontains one new interview , it’s a collection of Wenner’s older talksSpringsteen, Pete Townshend, and Bono. Apparently, in his decades as the architect of the American rock ’n’ roll canon, he didn’t do a single interview with a Black or female artist worthy of inclusion. The reason: He didn’t think they were “articulate enough.
Wenner wasn’t done yet. The response gifted interviewer David Marchese a perfect follow-up: “Oh, stop it.
Interestingly, he admits to allowing interview subjects to edit transcripts, including a bombshell 1970 chat with John Lennon, because these weren’t “confrontational” interviews.
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