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1989

Rolling Stone - 10/5/1989
Issue 562 has Roland Gift of Fine Young Cannibals on the cover and in a 5-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Jackson Browne; 6 pages on fifteen years of "Saturday Night Live."
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 8/24/1989
Issue 559 has Eddie Murphy on the cover and in a 6-page feature. This issue also has 15 pages on "Woodstock Remembered", 7 pages on Rob Lowe's sex video controversy; and 4½ pages on Ringo Starr.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 4/6/1989
Issue 549 has James Brown on the cover and featured in a 7-page article.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 1/26/1989
Issue 544 has the late Roy Orbison on the cover and in a 5½-page interview feature (his last interview before his death). This issue also has 3 pages of tributes to Roy and 2 pages on actress Melanie Griffith.
Price: $6 - VG

1988

Rolling Stone - 12/17/1988
Issue 540 has Steve Winwood on the cover and in a 5-page feature.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 10/20/1988
Issue 537 has a 5½-page cover feature on Albert Goldman's biography of John Lennon. There is also a 6-page Lennon photo feature.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 9/8/1988
Issue 534 has "The 100 Best Singles of the Last Twenty-Five Years." The 39-page cover feature includes The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bruce Springsteen, The Supremes, and many more. This issue also has 2 pages on actor Steve Martin and 8 pages on the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 8/11/1988
Issue 532 has Tom Cruise on the cover and in a 4½-page interview feature. This issue also has 4 pages on Brian Wilson and 6 pages of celebrity portraits by Herb Ritts, including Daryl Hannah, Sylvester Stallone, Diana Ross, and Pee Wee Herman
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 7/14/1988
Issue 530/531 has Van Halen on the cover and in a 5½-page feature. This issue also has 3 pages on actor Kevin Costner; 3 pages on the Sugarcubes; 4 pages on actor Corbin Bernsen; and 3 pages on Lyle Lovett.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 6/30/1988
Issue 529 has Tom Hanks on the cover and in a 4½-page feature. This issue also has 3 pages on Tracy Chapman.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 6/16/1988
Issue 528 has Terence Trent D'Arby on the cover and in a 7-page feature. This issue also has 5 pages on INXS.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 6/2/1988
Issue 527 has Neil Young on the cover and in a 6-page interview. This issue also has 3 pages on Beetlejuice director Tim Burton. Also with: The Godfathers. Appearing in advertisements: Kirstie Alley (Cuervo).
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 5/5/1988
Issue 525 has Bruce Springsteen on the cover and in a 5-page feature.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 4/21/1988
Issue 524 has David Byrne on the cover and in a 6-page interview feature. This issue also has 4 pages on fashion designer Giorgio Armani; 4 pages on Tiffany; and 4 page on TV director Steven Bochco.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 2/25/1988
Issue 520 has Robin Williams on the cover and in a 6-page interview feature. This issue also has 3 pages on ice skater Debi Thomas.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 1/14/1988
Issue 517 has Michael Douglas on the cover and in a 5-page feature. This issue also has 2½ pages on INXS.
Price: $6 - VG

1987

Rolling Stone - 10/22/1987
Issue 511 has George Harrison on the cover and in a 6-page article about him and his album Cloud Nine. This issue also contains a 2-page article on Dana Carvey and his "Church Lady" character and a 6-page article on NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 8/27/1987
Issue 507, "1967-1987 A Twentieth Anniversary Special Issue," has a huge feature (126 pages including ads) on the 100 best albums of the last 20 years. Feature artists include the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hindrix, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Marvin Gaye, Elvis Costello, the Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, and many more. This issue also has a 2-page obituary for producer John Hammond, a 3-page interview with Stanley Kubrick, and 2 pages on Tracey Ullman.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 3/26/1987
Issue 496 has The Bangles on the cover and in a 4-page feature. This issue also has 4 pages on "A Clockwork Orage - The Missing Chapter" by Anthony Burgess.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 1/29/1987
Issue 492 has Peter Gabriel on the cover and in a 5-page feature. This issue also has 3 pages on director Oliver Stone and 2 pages on actress Justine Bateman.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 1/15/1987
Issue 491 has Talking Heads on the cover and in a 4½-page feature. This issue also has Stephen Jay Gould in a 4-page interview.
Price: $6 - VG

1986

Rolling Stone - 12/4/1986
Issue 488 has Run-D.M.C on the cover and in a 5-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Churck Berry's 60th birthday and 4 pages on "Wheel of Fortune."
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 11/6/1986
Issue 486 has Billy Joel on the cover and in a 5½-page interview feature. This issue also has 2 pages on actor Bob Newhart and 3 pages on Dexter Gordon.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 9/25/1986
Issue 483 has Don Johnson on the cover and in a 4½-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Tom Hanks in Nothing in Common; 2 pages on Sam Kinison; 3½ pages on Lou Reed. Also with: The Monkees, Tommy Lee, Melanie Griffith, and Cyndi Lauper.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 8/14/1986
Issue 480 has Jack Nicholson on the cover and in a 7-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Howard the Duck; 3½ pages on Muammar Qaddafi. Also with: The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Peter Gabriel. Appearing in advertisements: Justine Bateman (Maxwell House).
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Rolling Stone - 5/8/1986
Issue 473 has Whoopi Goldberg on the cover and in a 3-page feature. This issue also has 4 pages on Yoko Ono, 3½ pages on mountaineer Jim Bridwell, and the Everly Brothers in a 5½-page interview feature.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 4/24/1986
Issue 472 has Prince on the cover with Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin. They are also in a 5-page feature. This issue also has 5½ pages on John Phillips.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 4/10/1986
Issue 471 has Stevie Wonder on the cover and in a 6-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Elvis Costello; 2 pages on Brian Setzer; and 2 pages on Philip Glass. Appearing in advertisements: Pierce Brosnan (Cuervo), art by Boris Vallejo (Chess King).
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 3/27/1986
Issue 470 has Bruce Willis on the cover and in a 6-page feature. This issue also has 3½ pages on comic book artist Frank Miller and 7 pages on Hugh Hefner.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 1/30/1986
Issue 466 has John Cougar Mellencamp on the cover and in a 6-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Tom Watts and 2 pages on newscaster Maria Shriver.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 1/16/1986
Issue 465 has Michael Douglas on the cover and in a 4-page feature. Also with: tribute to the late Big Joe Turner; Tom Petty.
Price: $6 - VG

1985

Rolling Stone - 11/21/1985
Issue 461 has Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on the cover and in a 5-page interview feature. This issue also has 6½ pages on David Crosby and 3 pages on Rae Dawn Chong.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 10/24/1985
Issue 459 has Steven Spielberg on the cover and in an 8½-page feature. This issue also has 4 pages on Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart (Eurythmics); 2½ pages on Billy Crystal. Also with: Stevie Wonder. Appearing in advertisements: Ray Charles (Pioneer).
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 9/12/1985
Issue 456 has Prince on the cover and in a 6-page feature. This issue also has a long "where are they now" feature on music artists of the 1960s and 70s.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 6/6/1985
Issue 449 has Julian Lennon on the cover and in a 5½-page feature. This issue also has 2 pages on Amy Grant and a 4-page excerpt of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 5/23/1985
Issue 448 has Phil Collins on the cover and in a 4-page feature. This issue also has a 1-page review of Madonna's first full-fledged concert (Seattle, May 1985), 2 pages on Sade, and a 3½-page excerpt from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 4/25/1985
Issue 446 has Richard Gere on the cover and in a 4-page feature. This issue also has a 3½-page excerpt from The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Also with: Don Henley, Sade.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 4/11/1985
Issue 445 has David Lee Roth on the cover and in a 4-page feature. This issue also has Judd Nelson and Andie MacDowell together in a 5-page fashion layout and a 3-page excerpt of Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 3/14/1985
Issue 443 has U2 on the cover and in a 4-page feature. This issue also has a 3½-page excerpt from Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Price: $6 - VG
Rolling Stone - 2/28/1985
Issue 442 has Bruce Springsteen on the cover and a 1-page feature as the "Artist of the Year." This issue also has a 3-page excerpt from The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Price: $6 - VG

1984

Rolling Stone - 4/12/1984
Issue 419 has Eddie Murphy on the cover and featured in a 4½-page article. This issue also contains a 3½-page article on ZZ Top.
Price: $6 - VG

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