Interview comments made by Wenner about women and people of colour are widely criticised as sexist and racist
In the interview, David Marchese of the Times asked Wenner why the book included no women or people of colour.
His answer about artists of colour was less direct. “Of Black artists – you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right?” he said. “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.” Joe Hagan, who in 2017 wrote a harshly critical biography of Wenner, Sticky Fingers, cited a comment by feminist critic Ellen Willis, who in 1970 called the magazine “viciously anti-woman.”
Wenner sold the magazine over a series of transactions completed in 2020, and he officially left it in 2019. Last year, he published a memoir, Like a Rolling Stone.
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