Brand seeks to honor iconic albums of national and international music that complete 50 years in 2023
2 years ago, Rolling Stone Brasil started to create periodic specials, always with the brand’s editorial scope: discussing music, releases and how music has the power to change social and artistic contexts of its time.
the commemorative edition
To continue the plan, Rolling Stone Brasil is betting on another edition, this time with the aim of celebrating the 50th anniversary of great national and international music albums. In all, the commemorative edition brings together 100 discs, which will be commented on in a guide format throughout the 84 pages.
“The idea was to contextualize all these releases in their time, 1973. All the albums are important for the history of music and reverberate in the industry even today”, explains Ademir Correa, director of content at Editora Perfil.
To celebrate both the national and international scene, the magazine has two covers, the national one with the album Dry and Wetby the homonymous Brazilian band and the international one with The Dark Side of The Moon da Pink Floyd.
Partners and promotion of the special
The Brazilian music festival João Rock, an editorial partner of Rolling Stone Brasil, is the main commercial partner of this edition. “We redid the entire trajectory of João Rock, which turned 20 in 2023, in addition to special coverage of the festival that took place this year”, says Ademir Correa.
In addition, the brand is betting on a strategy used in the pre-launch and launch of the last special edition, which celebrated the 80th anniversary of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento and Paulinho da Viola. As in this edition, Rolling Stone promotes shows by independent artists at Blue Note So Paulo, with the aim of reinterpreting special shows that marked the history of music.
For the 50th anniversary of the 100 albums chosen for the new edition, Rolling Stone Brasil is betting on a live musical experience, with shows to take place at Blue Stone So Paulo and also at Casa Natura Musical.
“The first show takes place on June 28, with Filipe Catto at Blue Note, on that day the pre-launch of the magazine singing Gal Costa will take place – which has an album that completes 50 years, the Índia. Another should happen in July at Casa Natura, maestro Joo Carlos Martins will play a special repertoire linked to these records. Gradually we will create some shows that dialogue with records with contemporary names in music”, adds Ademir.
The 100 albums honored
Check out the complete list of albums that will be honored in the special edition of Rolling Stone Brasil:
national
- Dry & Wet – Dry & Wet
- Joo Gilberto – Joo Gilberto
- Prola Negra – Luis Melodia
- Nervos de Ao – Paulinho da Viola
- Krig-ha, Bandolo! – Raul Seixas
- Miracle of the Fish – Milton Nascimento
- Nelson Cavaquinho – Nelson Cavaquinho
- Who Who – Joo Donato
- India – Gal Costa
- Calabar, O Elogio da Traio – Chico Buarque
- Pencil For – Tom Jobim
- Clara Nunes – Clara Nunes
- All Eyes – Tom Z
- Maia Team – Maia Team
- Sailor S – Clementina de Jesus
- Ara Azul – Caetano Veloso
- Manera Mrs. Mrs. Manera – Fagner
- I Want to Put My Block on the Street – Srgio Sampaio
- Elis – Queen of Elis
- Weather Forecast – Marcos Valle
- Novos Baianos FC – Novos Baianos
- Prelude – Eumir Deodato
- Slaughter of the Pig – Imaginário Sound
- Guilherme Lamounier – Guilherme Lamounier
- Introducing Our Cassiano – Cassiano
- Trio Mocot – Trio Mocot
- Samba da Bahia – Riacho, Batatinha and Panela
- The Tinks – The Tinks
- Elton Medeiros – Elton Medeiros
- Donato Deodato – Joo Donato & Eumir Deodato
- Sivuca – Sivuca
- Underground – Marku Ribas
- Amazon – Nan Vasconcelos
- No Sub Kingdom of Metazoria – Marconi Notaro
- Or Not – Walter Franco
- Photos – Taiguara
- Odair Jos – Odair Jos
- My Body, My Packaging, Everything I Spend on the Trip – Ednardo and the People from Cear
- Edu Lobo – Edu Lobo
- Animals – Lula Crtes e Lailson
- Roberto Carlos – Roberto Carlos
- Antonio Marcos – Antonio Marcos
- Song for a New Day – Beth Carvalho
- Free Music by Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto Pascoal
- Joo Bosco – Joo Bosco
- Luis Gonzaga Jr – Luis Gonzaga Jr
- Francis Hime – Francis Hime
- Drama 3 o Ato – Maria Bethnia
- O Bem-Amado – Toquinho and Vinicius
- Earth – S, Rodrix and Guarabyra – Earth
international
- The Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd
- Catch A Fire – Bob Marley & The Wailers
- Houses Of The Holy – Led Zeppelin
- Innervisions – Stevie Wonder
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
- Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
- Band On The Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
- Quadrophenia – The Who
- Berlin – Lou Reed
- Raw Power – Iggy And The Stooges
- Aladdin Sane – David Bowie
- Larks’ Tongues in Aspic – King Crimson
- Call Me – Al Green
- Fresh – Sly and the Family Stone
- New York Dolls – The New York Dolls
- 3+3 – The Isley Brothers
- Future Days – Can
- Goats Head Soup – The Rolling Stones
- Head Hunters – Herbie Hancock
- Diana & Marvin – Diana Ross e Marvin Gaye
- Mind Games – John Lennon
- Seen from the outside – Serge Gainsbourg
- Stranded – Roxy Music
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath
- The Payback – James Brown
- Pin Ups – David Bowie
- Billion Dollar Babies – Alice Cooper
- Piano Man – Billy Joel
- Burnin’ – Bob Marley and the Wailers
- These Foolish Things – Bryan Ferry
- Gentleman – Fela Ransome Kuti & The Afrika 70
- Ralf & Florian – power station
- Birds of Fire – Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Killing Me Softly – Roberta Flack
- (No Pussyfooting) – Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
- Countdown to Ecstasy – Steely Dan
- Space Is the Place – Sun Ra
- Funky Kingston – Toots and the Maytals
- Tanx – T. Rex
- Approximately Infinite Universe – Yoko Ono
- Selling England by the Pound – Genesis
- Living In The Material World – George Harrison
- GP – Gram Parsons
- Faust IV – Faust
- For Everyman – Jackson Browne
- Doing It to Death – The J.B.’s
- Paris 1919 – John Cale
- Queen – Queen
- Aerosmith – Aerosmith
- Brothers And Sisters – The Allman Brothers Band
The special edition will be distributed on newsstands and will also have a digital version, which will be available at the end of June.