Some rock journalism celebrates rock’s vivid personalities and their life styles; some rock journalism explores musical tradition and the meaning of rock & roll as a cultural fact and force. The best rock journalism, the classic Rolling Stone kind, pursues both paths. The Rolling stone Interviews are the quintessence of the best. For in the Interviews, the premier rock artists themselves are drawn out by the most knowledgeable and skillful of the journalists to talk articulately, frankly, and in great depth about themselves, each other, their music, their lives, our lives and times. This collection of the best of the Interviews, newly edited and with commentary by the editors of Rolling Stone, is the ultimate history of rock & roll as understood and told by the people who made it and made it big--the legends of rock & roll. The Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Donovan, Bob dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, Elton oh, G. B. King, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Little Richard, Keith Richards, Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Grace Slick and Paul Kantner, Phil Spector, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Pete Townshend, Stevie Wonder, and Neil Young. The Jann Wenner, Ben Fong-Torres, Ralph J. Gleason, John Carpenter, Jonathan Cott, Jerry Hopkins, David Dalton, Happy Traum, John Morthland, Robert Greenfield, Charles Reich, Jon Landau, Patrick William Salvo, Stuart Werbin, Robert Hilburn, Paul Gambaccini, Cameron Crowe, Peter Herbst, Greil Marcs, and Timothy White. Donovan, Bob Dylan, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison Phil Spector, Little Richard, Van Morrison, Grace Slick & Paul Kantner, Rod Stewart John Lennon, Keith Richards, Jerry Garcia, Paul Simon, Chuck Berry, Keith Moon James Taylor & Carly Simon, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder Elton John, Paul McCartney Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell