Howard Stern: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic)

by Playboy Magazine, Howard Stern

In mid-1962, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was given a partial transcript of an interview with Miles Davis. It covered jazz, of course, but it also included Davis’s ruminations on race, politics and culture. Fascinated, Hef sent the writer—future Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Alex Haley, an unknown at the time—back to glean even more opinion and insight from Davis. The resulting exchange, published in the September 1962 issue, became the first official Playboy Interview and kicked off a remarkable run of public inquisition that continues today—and that has featured just about every cultural titan of the last half century.To celebrate the Interview’s 50th anniversary, the editors of Playboy have culled 50 of its most (in)famous Interviews and will publish them over the course of 50 weekdays (from September 4, 2012 to November 12, 2012) via Amazon’s Kindle Direct platform. Here is the interview with the radio personality Howard Stern from the April 1994 issue.

35 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 19, 2012

Reviews

[LaDonna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think I actually read this interview when it was first published over 20 years ago. It's a great interview with him, but most interviews I have ever read with him are. It clearly shows its age, but that is kind of the point of republishing these, I suppose. The older I get, the further I get from Howard politically, but I do enjoy his on air persona when I get a chance to catch him these days, and I have always had a lot of respect for him. He is one hell of a businessman, and a very enigmatic figure. I guess the funniest thing about this interview was the references to interactive tv. I suppose the compuserve mussage boards were around at the time of publication, but no one couls have dreamed what the internet would become 20 years down the road. It was a bit jarring to note him talking about everyone not actually talking to each other, just communicating through their tvs. Close enough. Anyway, I gave it 5 stars mostly for the nostalgia of it, not particularly for the writing or even the content in general.