MixedNPRJoe Hagan knew, before he typed out the first word of Sticky Fingers, his new biography of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner composed of endless access to Wenner and his extensive archives, and interviews with 240 others, that it would receive little love from its subject upon publication ...is, if nothing else, a testament to Wenner\'s cruelty, self-mythologizing and narcissism ...a 507-page book, spends just upwards of 50 pages on the years between 1990 and 2017 (many of those examining the epilogue to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame\'s founding and 1995 museum opening — surprise, backs were stabbed) is darkly illustrative of Wenner and his magazine\'s fading importance in the post-classic phase of rock ... Wenner, through Hagan and in his own estimation, was a surrogate for rock \'n\' roll and a divining rod for its future.
