25 Rock Stars Who Made the Cover of ‘Time’ Magazine
In 1972 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show sang about longing to be on the cowl of Rolling Stone, however for rock stars, it is a a lot rarer feat to look on the cowl of Time.
The well-liked information journal launched in 1923 and has been revealed each week for many of the rock period, switching to each different week in 2020. However, rock musicians or bands have solely served as the publication’s cowl story 25 occasions.
You can see all the Time journal covers that includes rock stars or rock music beneath.
Bruce Springsteen is the solely rock star to look by themselves on the Time cowl twice. The first time was in 1975 when he famously additionally appeared on the cowl of the journal’s fundamental rival Newsweek. He appeared once more in 2002 when his post-9/11 album The Rising was mentioned.
Three members of the Beatles have appeared twice: The group was featured on the Sept. 22, 1967 cowl, Paul McCartney appeared solo in 1976 and John Lennon and George Harrison got tribute covers following their 1980 and 2001 deaths. Bono has additionally appeared twice, alongside his U2 bandmates in 1987 and solo in 2002. To date the final rock star featured on the cowl was David Bowie, following his 2016 loss of life.
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Time was most invested in rock music protection in the ’70s, dedicating 11 covers to the topic that decade as in comparison with six in the ’80s and simply two in the ’90s.
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NOT INCLUDED: The definition of rock is extremely broad right now and, on this record, we have elected to not embody pop/rock acts akin to Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Twenty One Pilots, 5 Seconds of Summer, Coldplay, Goo Goo Dolls, Gym Class Heroes and Train.
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