Jann Wenner Says Women And Black Artists Were Not Intellectually Articulate Enough To Be Interviewed For His New Book Of Rockstar Interviews

Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone (though he no longer runs that publication) and co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (from which he has also stepped aside) has a new book coming out. It’s called The Masters, and it features Wenner’s interviews with seven iconic rock stars: Bono, Bob Dylan, the late Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, the late John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend. To promote The Masters, he did a New York Times Q&A with David Marchese, a brilliant interviewer who famously does not shy away from posing awkward and sometimes combative questions to famous people, saying the thing we’re all thinking (or the thing we wish we’d thought of).