First published in the UK by Canongate, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue: Get back -- Book I: The wunderkind. Atlantis ; Are you experienced? ; California dreamin' ; Like a rolling stone ; Born to run ; Sympathy for the devil ; Bridge over troubled water -- Book II: The 1970s. Temptation eyes ; Sticky fingers ; California ; The cover of the Rolling Stone ; Whatever gets you through the night ; Love will keep us together ; Take it to the limit ; Big shot ; Stayin' alive ; Shattered -- Book III: It's only rock & roll. Get back ; We don't need another hero ; Purple rain ; We didn't start the fire ; Nevermind ; Bridges to Babylon ; Still crazy after all these years.

Sticky Fingers- The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine is the story of how one man's ego and ambition captured the 1960s youth culture of rock and roll and turned it into a hothouse of fame, power, politics, and riches that would last for fifty years. Drawn from dozens of hours of interviews with Wenner, who granted Joe Hagan exclusive access to hisvast personal archive, this biography tells the story of how Wenner partnered with rock luminaries like John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan to manufacture an unforgettable cultural mythology in story and image every other week for five decades. Featuring on-the-record interviews with Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Yoko Ono, Billy Joel, Tom Wolfe, Cameron Crowe, Lorne Michaels, David Geffen, Dan Aykroyd, Bette Midler, and dozens of others, Hagan captures Wenner with intimacy, nuance, and complexity-his marksmanship as an editor, his extraordinary understanding of the zeitgeist, his endless pursuit of fame and power, and his capacity for betrayal that would earn him as many enemies as friends.