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OFFICIAL: Rolling Stone will not be putting Kevin Rudd on the cover.

Sex, drugs and the ETS: Chris Deal's Kevin cover.

His interview will only run on the inside of the magazine, meaning the Ruddster will miss the same honour as the Rayban-clad Paul Keating in 1995 and Barack Obama in the US last year. “The way it was reported out of Canberra this morning you’d think he’s running on the front,” sources at the magazine told The Punch just now. “But there’s no way that will happen, for the simple reason that politicians don’t sell. The Keating edition tanked.”

The Rolling Stone story - broken by our own Leo Shanahan yesterday - was used by Tony Abbott on Punch TV this morning as evidence that Kevin Rudd won’t do “hard interviews” with serious political programs and newspapers. There might be something in that, but we thought this one was just a bit of fun.

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  • Peter says:

    01:17pm | 23/10/09

    Instead of being at the bottom right, “GARBAGE” should be on the top left. That’s what it is. Leftist garbage social marketing. Read more »

  • Grant says:

    11:14am | 23/10/09

    You gotta hand it to Rudd he knows how to work the media. I think the Libs and Nats have generally no idea. They are still trying to fight in the trenches where Rudd isnt even there.  I have been increasingly suprised and critical of pollies on such things as… Read more »

 

“We take all kinda pills to give us all kinda thrills, but the thrill we’ve never known, is the thrill that’ll getcha, when you getcha picture, on the cover of the Rolling Stone” – Dr Hook, Cover of the Rolling Stone

If there were such a thing as a periodic table of cool and uncool things in the universe Rolling Stone magazine and Kevin Rudd would no doubt be at opposing ends.

Paul Keating on the cover in 1993.

But now The Punch can reveal that Kevin Rudd will throw that order of things into chaos by becoming the feature story in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone.

The rock bible has interviewed and photographed Prime Minister Rudd as part of a major piece, and possible cover story, for the magazine’s December issue.

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  • A Long says:

    09:35pm | 22/10/09

    Good on ya Kevin - I’ll be buying a copy Read more »

  • Machina says:

    12:03pm | 22/10/09

    @bella starkey.. Precisely. Couldn’t have said it any better. Read more »

 

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