Jann Wenner was a 20 year-old student at the University of California at Berkley when he decided to parlay his love of rock and reverence for Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Mick Jagger into a serious journalistic pursuit. Borrowing  $7500 from friends, family, and his soon to be wife he dropped out of college the magazine that would become the cultural touchstone of a whole generation — which first brought Hunter S. Thompson’s masterful Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail along with Tom Wolfe’s articles on the early days of the space program, that became his book The Right Stuff. Along the way to fulfilling Wenner’s dream of meeting his heroes, his magazine won numerous awards for articles, reviews, and photography.

On this day, May 7, in 2006, Rolling Stone magazine published its 1,000th issue, featuring specially-produced holographic cover with as many A-list names in music as they could fit on the page.

The cover was foremost a tribute The Beatles’ famous Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. But Wenner went far beyond, adding a three-dimensional feature to it, which cost reportedly $1 million to design. One hundred and fifty icons were included, everyone from Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin to Britney Spears and Eminem. Wenner also included movie stars George Clooney,  Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise; and did not forget about his favorite politicians, including both Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan – perhaps the only time those two appeared on a cover together.