Rolling Stone magazine is celebrating its 1000th issue with a special 3D cover that cost nearly $1 million to produce. Yes, $1 million. To produce the cover of a magazine. $1 million. On a magazine cover. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why we'll never make poverty history.
Still, it's kind of cool, featuring the images of the great and good of rock, culture and politics in a Sgt Pepper's style montage, and it comes on the front of a special edition celebrating the iconic covers that have appeared on the magazine in its 1000 issue history.
The magazine's founder Jann Wenner told reporters: "The cover is iconic. The cover, more than any other thing we do, resonates in people's minds. By and large the greatest things we've done, the greatest stories, have had the greatest covers."
CMU celebrates its eighth birthday the week after next, and we will be marking the occasion with a special edition of the Daily produced in four dimensions. You are going to all need one of those special 4D computers to experience it (and they haven't been invented yet), but I still think its worth the £7.5 billion were planning to spend producing it.