Rolling Stone, Issue 309, January 24, 1980

Burroughs contributes "'Heart Beat': Fifties Heroes as Soap Opera", an essay on the film version of Carolyn Cassady's memoirs of life with Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, pp. 30, 33.

Published in New York City by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. in late December 1979.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.301
• Schottlaender v4.C485
• Raven 19800124RSTO.0.309

Contents:

• Chet Flippo:
• "Rock & Roll Tragedy: Why Eleven Died in Cincinnati" (essay on deaths at a Who concert)
• "Larry Magid: A Promoter Under Fire" (essay)
• Charles M. Young: "Brief Lives: The Story of Three Victims (on the Who concert deaths)
• Pamela Rousseau: "Feminists End Album Boycott" (essay on WAVAW)
• Stephen Holden:
• "Angela Bofill: A Hard Way to Easy Street" (essay)
• review of Daryl Hall and John Oates' X-Static
• "The Jacksons' Family Entertainment" (review of The Jacksons performance at Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, NY)
• Michael Barackman: "Rick James' Funky Realism" (essay)
• Kurt Loder:
• "James Chance Contorts Himself: Sex Maniac of the No Wave" (essay)
• review of Wire's 154
• Greil Marcus:
• "'Jambeaux': Rock Fiction Passes Puberty" (on Laurence Gonzales' book Jambeaux)
• "Faithfull: Bringing It All Back Home" (on Marianne Faithfull's Broken English)
• William S. Burroughs: "'Heart Beat': Fifties Heroes as Soap Opera" (essay centered on the film 'Heart Beat')
• Chris Hodenfield: "'1941': Bombs Away!" (on the film 1941)
• Jim McCullaugh: "Sound by Numbers: The Digital Recording Revolution Comes to Hi-Fi" (essay)
• Susan March: "Henry Kloss: The Inventor Who Put Television up Against the Wall" (essay)
• Art Levis: "The Long Run: New Videocassette Decks Offer More Recording Time" (essay)
• Tom Carson:
• "Neil Young Unleashes a Live One" (on Live Rust by Neil Young and Crazy Horse)
• review of Chuck Berry's Rockit
• Ken Tucker: "Flower Power" (on Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants)
• Paul Nelson: review of Warren Zevon's Wanted Dead or Alive
• David Fricke: review of the Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady
• Dave Marsh: "It's Too Late to Stop Now" (on Sly Stone)
• Chris Morris: "Bob Marley's Rastafarian Magic" (review of Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Pauley Pavilion, UCLA)
• Don Shewey: "Billy Joel: No Stranger" (review of Billy Joel at Boston Garden)

Publishing Information:

• Editor and Publisher: Jann S> Wenner
• Managing Editor: Harriet Fier
• Assistant Managing Editor: Robert Wallace
• Senior Editors: Barbara Downey, Ben Fong-Torres, Peter Herbst
• Associate Editors: Jonathan Cort, Chet Flippo, Mikal Gilmore, James Henke, Howard Kohn, Greil Marcus, Susan Murcko, Paul Nelson, Charles Perry, Michael Segell, Jean Vallely, Maryanne Vollers, Timothy White, Charles M. Young
• National Affairs Desk: Hunter S. Thompson
• Contributing Editors: Tom Burke, Tim Cahill, Timothy Crouse, Cameron Crowe, Raoul Duke, Cindy Ehrlich, Joe Ezterhas, David Felton, Tim Ferris, David Harris, Tom Hayden, Chris Hodenfield, Jerry Hopkins, Donald R. Katz, Joe Klein, Markene Kruse-Smith, Jon Landau, Dave Marsh, Robert Palmer, Abe Peck, Tom Powers, Michael Rogers, Paul Scanlon, Fred Schruers, Ralph Steadman, Michael Dillon Thomas, Ellen Willis, Ed Zuckerman
• Assistant Editors: Jane Karr, Kurt Loder, Daisann McLane, Jay Merritt, Jon Pareles, Parke Putterbaugh, Dianne Ripley
• Editorial Staff: Patty Fitzgeorge, Debra Hurst, Joseph Kane, Joanna Laufer, Mary MacDonald, Michael Maloy, Darlene Pond, Pamerla Rousseau, Jeri Simon, Barbara Vilanova
• Art Director: Mary Shanahan
• Chief Photographer: Annie Liebowitz
• Associate Art Directors: Greg Scott, Christopher Austopchuk
• Picture Editor: Laurie Kratochvil
• Associate Art Director: Dave WIlder
• Production Managers: David White, Martine Winter
• Art Staff: Beth Filler, Patricia Conroy, Christopher Lione, Kandy Jean Littrell, Dennis Ortiz-Lopez, Vivette Porges, Larry White
• Camera: Tim Reitz, Patrick Cavanaugh, T. Mull Vincent Romano
• Consultant: Bea Feitler
• Associate Publisher: D. Claeys Bahrenburg