The other day I purchased the new biography of Jann Wenner, longtime editor of Rolling Stone, and, unlike probably everyone who’s bought the book, I turned to the index in the back and searched for the name of Jan Morris.
The great Welsh travel writer was a frequent contributor to the magazine in the ’70s and ’80s, writing not about music but about Texas and Istanbul. Travel writing was so big in those years that the premier rock journal of the time found a place for it in its pages. It may say something about the genre’s decline that no mention of Morris appears in the book’s index.
