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4 unusual facts about Rolling Stone Australia


Rolling Stone Australia

In 1974, two years after being founded, the licence was taken up by a group of journalists led by former Financial Review writer Paul Gardiner, with Jane Mathieson and Paul Comrie-Thompson.

After remaining dormant for six months, Phillip Keir acquired the rights to publish it in 1987 in partnership with his wife Lisa-Belle Furhagen and his friend Toby Creswell.

Rolling Stone was initially released in Melbourne in May 1970 as a supplement in Revolution, an offshoot from Australian pop newspaper, Go-Set by Phillip Frazer.

The Australian version of Rolling Stone was initially released as a supplement in Revolution in May 1970, an adult-based magazine, edited and published by Phillip Frazer in Melbourne as an offshoot from the now defunct, teen-based pop newspaper Go-Set for Go-Set Publications.



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