Rolling Stone Magazine

Everyone may have at one time or another seen or read an issue of this magazine. This magazine is a US-based magazine devoted to all things music and music culture, and politics. Almost every musician since the beginning of time has at one time or more then once gotten their image on the cover of this magazine. Thia magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wellner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason. In the 1990s, this magazine changed it's format slightly to appeal to a younger audience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone

When this magazine first started, it mainly reported on the hippie counterculture world of Haight-Ashbury, and they came in newspaper format. Rolling Stone had come under fire for discussing musicians that ahd previously been ignored, such as OutKast, Queen, Radiohead, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Weezer, 2Pac.

For many years, they have maintained a main site where you can listen to some songs by some of the artists that have been on the cover, download songs onto your MP3s, read articles, read blogs, read reviews of albums and artists, and even read biographies about different artists. And if social media is your thing, they also have a page on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

Some people have appeared on the cover many times. Here are just some of those people:

1. Issue 1: John Lennon
2. Issue 2: Tina Turner
3. Issue 3: the Beatles
4. Issue 4: Jimi Hendrix, Donovan and Otis Redding
5. Issue 5: Jim Morrison
6. Issue 6: Janis Joplin
7. Issue 7: Jimi Hendrix
8. Issue 8: Monterey Pop Festival
9. Issue 9: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
10. Issue 10: Eric Clapton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_celebrities_who_have_appeared_on_the_cover_of_Rolling_Stone_magazine
Here are all of the people who have recieved the honor of appearing on the magazine:

A
Adele
Paula Abdul
Jessica Alba
Clay Aiken
Sade Adu
Fiona Apple
Bille Joe Armstrong

B
Drew Barrymore
David Bowie

Pat Benatar
John Belushi
Mary J. Blige
Orlando Bloom
Jon Bon Jovi

C
Belinda Carlisle
Karen Carpenter
Dana Carvey
Johnny Carson
Ray Charles
Eric Clapton
Alice Cooper

D
John Denver
Robert De Niro
Johnny Depp

Bo Diddley
Mike Dirnt
Bob Dylan
DMX

E
Clint Eastwood
Zac Efron
John Entwistle
Phil and Don Everly
Missy Elliot

F
Edie Falco
Peter Falk
Mick Fleetwood
John and Tom Fogerty
Michael J. Fox
Ace Frehley
Aretha Franklin
Nelly Furtado

G
Peter Gabriel
Marvin Gaye
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Richard Gere
Heather Graham
Macy Gray
Buddy Guy

H
Sammy Hagar
George Harrison

Arsenio Hall
Geri Halliwell
James Hetfield
Abbie Hoffman
Whitney Houston
Kate Hudson
William Hurtt

I
Ice-T
Billy Idol
James Iha
Michael Imperioli

J
Michael Jackson

Mick Jagger(he's been on the cover several times!)

Wyclef Jean
Jewel
Billy Joel
Elton John
Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas

K
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Alicia Keys
Martin Luther King
B.B. King
Johnny Knoxville
Beyonce
Ashton Kutcher

L
Patti LaBelle
Teva Ladd(victim of the 1979 Who trampling incident)
Lady Gaga

Avril Lavigne
Heath Ledger
Tommy Lee
John Lennon

Julian Lennon

Sean Lennon
LL Cool J
Jane Lynch


M
Andie MacDowell
Benji and Joel Madden
Madonna
Malcolm X
Charles Manson
Marilyn Manson
Nick Mason
Linda and Paul McCartney

Duff McKagan
Cory Monteith
Keith Moon

Dudley Moore
Larry Mullen Jr

Eddie Murphy
Mike Myers

N
Graham Nash
Dave Navarro
Chuck Negron
Vince Neil

Stevie Nicks
Jack Nicholson
Don Novello

O
John Oates
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
Yoko Ono
Jack, Kelly, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne

Donny Osmond

P
Al Pacino
Jimmy Page
Joe Perry
Robert Plant

Amy Poehler
Natalie Portman
Prince
Richard Pryor
Freddie Prinze

R
Gilda Radner
Bonnie Raitt
Robert Redford
Christopher Reeve
Keanu Reeves
Alexandra Richards(daughter of Keith Richards)
Theodora Richards(daughter of Keith Richards)

Keith Richards

Chris Rock
Axl Rose

S
Claudia Schiffer
Boz Scaggs
Shakira
Gene Simmons
Carly Simon
Nikki Sixx
Slash
Sylvester Stallone

Bruce Springsteen
Ringo Starr

Sting
Donna Summer

T
Ben Taylor
Mick Thompson
Lily Tomlin
Pete Townshend
Aida Turturro
Shania Twain
Steven Tyler

U
Usher
Brendon Urie
Lars Ulrich

V
Sid Vicious
Eddie Van Halen
Alex Van Halen
Vince Vaughn
Eddie Vedder

W
Rufus Wainwright
Andy Warhol
Denzel Washington

Charlie Watts
Roger Waters
Brad Whitford
Kate Winslet

Ronnie Wood
Bill Wyman

Y
Neil Young
Angus Young
Thom Yorke

Z
Rob Zombie
Frank Zappa

X is for X-Pensive Winos

If you have never heard of these guys, then maybe you have heard of one of the members, he's quite famous, he's had a few big fights with Rolling Stone Mick Jagger--yup, you may have guessed it right, Keith Richards. The X-Pensive Winos is the band he went on to form when him and the rest of the Stones were taking a break from each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-pensive_Winos
This band consisted of guitarist Waddy Wachtel, sax player Bobby Keys, keyboard player Ivan Neville, and Charley Drayton on bass.

There aren't many pics of these guys except maybe of Keith, he was the only real well known person in the band considering the fact he formed it.

W is for Whitesnake

Whitesnake is a British rock band that formed in 1978, founded by David Coverdale, after he left Deep Purple. Alot of their early stuff has been compared in many ways to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s, they moved into more heavy metal music. Even though this band has been considered to be an all British band, everyone in the band with the exception of Coverdale himself is American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesnake

The current members of Whitesnake consist of: David Coverdale(lead singer) and the only original member, Doug Alrich(guitars, backing vocals), Reb Beach(guitars), Brian Tichy(drums), Michael Devin(bass), Bryan Ruedy(keyboards)

Alot of their early stuff had been blues-rock and easy stuff, but then by the mid 1980s, they had moved into more heavy metal. In March 2008, Whitesnake played at the Rock2Wgtn with KISS, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Lordi, which basically was a big concert. And in the summer of 2008, they headlined a UK tour with Def Leppard, with southern rockers Black Stone Cherry opening the UK shows in June and the band Thunder opening the shows in July, and this was to promote their Good to Be Bad album, which was their 10th studio album.

David Coverdale

Doug Alrich

Reb Beach

Brian Tichy

Michael Devin

Bryan Ruedy

D is for Def Leppard

This English rock band formed in Sheffield as part of a new wave of British heavy metal. Ever since 1992, the band has had these members: Joe Elliot on vocals, Phil Collen on guitar, Vivian Campbell on guitarRick Savage on bass, and Rick Allen on drums. Most of their success came between the early 1980s and early 1990s. According to Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, their 1983 album Pyromania rankes #384. And in fact, they just played at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, OH, just last night!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard

In 1992, their album Adrenalize was the first album without guitarist Steve Clark(strangely enough, this is also my dad's name, lol!). Something unique about Rick Allen is he only has 1 arm. He lost his left arm in a car accident on Dec. 31, 1984 when his Corvette hit a drystone wall. Even though he only has 1 arm, that doesn't take away from his awesome drumming, he uses his feet to do some of the back up drumming.

On January 8, 1991, their guitarist Steve Clark died from a mix of prescription drugs and alcohol in his London home. On Oct. 23, 1995, they got into the Guinness Book of World Records for playing 3 concerts in 3 continents in one day- Tangiers, Morocco; London, England; Vancouver, Canada. On Sept. 5, 2000, Def Leppard was inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame in Hollywood by friend Brian May of Queen. And Def Leppard is only one of 5 rock bands with 2 studio albums selling over 10 million copies over the world, and those bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Vn Halen.

Side stuff

Joe Elliot sang lead vocals on 2 songs on Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood's album Slide on This, Phil Collen played guitar, uncredited, on Sam Kinison's Wild Thing. The video featured members of the bands Poison, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses, Ratt, Aerosmith.

Them younger

B is for Billy Idol

William Michael Albert Broad was born on November 30, 1955, in Stanmore, Middlesex, England. He is better known by his stage name Billy Idol. He emerged in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. He is considered to be one of the first MTV stars and has done a lot of solo work and has made alot of stylish music videos. He currently tours with singer Steve Stevens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol

The song that got him noticed was his song Dancing With Myself and a cover of the Tommy James and the Shondell's song Mony Mony. In 1989, he appeared on stage with the Who as Cousin Tommy in the stage production of the Who rock opera Tommy. In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, Idol had a cameo appearance which he saved the relationship between Adam Sandler's character and Drew Barrymore's character, and in the movie The Doors, he appeared in there as well, playing Jim's drinking buddy Cat.

In 2008, the widely popular Guitar Hero World Tour came out, and Idol's song Rebel Yell appeared in the game, and on Rock Band 2, a game similar to Guitar Hero only you use drums, guitars, microphone, the whole nine yards, Idol's song White Wedding appeared.

Forever 27 club

If you listen to music alot, especially older music, then you may know what I'm talking about. The Forever 27 club is a club that consists of all musicians who died at the age of 27, and now with the passing of British soul singer Amy Winehouse, she is now added to the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

Here's a list of all who died at 27 and are in the "club"

Brian Jones- July 3, 1969. Drowned

Jimi Hendrix- Sept. 18, 1970. Choked to death

Janis Joplin- Oct. 4, 1970. Heroin overdose

Jim Morrison- July 3, 1971. listed as heart failure, probable drug overdose

Kurt Cobain- April 5, 1994. ruled as suicide, most probable cause is drug overdose.

Dave Alexander- Feb. 10, 1975. heart condition

Jacob Miller- March 23, 1980. car crash

Amy Winehouse- July 23, 2011. apparent drug overdose.