Rolling Stone's 1000th Issue Bash: Jann, Eddie, Marilyn, Moby, Strokes
We spent most of Thursday evening at the Hammerstein Ballroom for Rolling Stone‘s 1000th issue party. While we were waiting to meet our own party on 34th Street and a pink-suited Billy Idol bent down to tie his shoe before brushing past, we knew it was going to be the kind of evening that makes you appreciate at-once New York, rock and roll and, well, small, intimate parties in, say, Cobble Hill.
Jann Wenner — who appeared to have indulged in one of the well-stocked bars early — introduced the evening with the sort of unprepared speech you’d imagine an early Rolling Stone editorial meeting to be like (“Grab your drinks, we’re gonna party!”) before backing up John Cougar Mellencamp on a song written specifically for the affair.
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