STICKY FINGERS is the story of how one man's ego & ambition captured the 1960s youth culture of rock & roll & turned it into a hothouse of fame power politics & riches that would last for fifty years Drawn from dozens of hours of interviews with Jann Wenner who granted Joe Hagan exclusive access to his vast personal archive this biography reveals how Wenner manufactured an unforgettable cultural mythology in story & image every other week for five decades Hagan captures in stunning detail the extraordi-nary stories behind Rolling Stone the magazine that reinvented youth culture & marketed the libertine world of late-sixties San Francisco He chronicles Wenner's marksmanship as an editor his instinctive un-derstanding of the zeitgeist his endless pursuit of fame & power & his capacity for betrayal that would earn him as many enemies as friends Featuring on-the-record interviews with Mick Jagger Bruce Springsteen Paul Mc Cartney Elton John Keith Richards Pete Townsend Yoko Ono Billy Joel Tom Wolfe Cameron Crowe Lorne Michaels David Geffen Dan Aykroyd Bette Midler & many others Hagan describes Wenner with intimacy nuance & complexity Like a real life Clash of the Titans STICKY FINGERS captures the spirit of the age & paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most signif-icant cultural forces of our time