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Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire
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From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game. When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985 we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown he - and many others of his generation - were just getting started. This was the time when live performance took over from records. The big names of the 60s and 70s exploited the age of spectacle that Live Aid had ushered in to enjoy the longest lap of honour in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else had retired. Hence this is a story without precedent, a story in which Elton John plays a royal funeral, Mick Jagger gets a knighthood, Bob Dylan picks up the Nobel Prize, the Beatles become, if anything, bigger than the Beatles and it's beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks to the march of technology, be playing Las Vegas for ever.
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"Discrete, though cunningly interwoven ..."
"Snappy … Fascinating … [Hepworth's] books read less like histories than arguments being entertainingly advanced over a pub table, and as with a lot of pub arguments, they're big on rather sweeping statements … They also have a tendency to mix fascinating details…with rash claims that don't bear close scrutiny … Never boring, largely because Hepworth is a genuinely great writer with a winning turn of phrase…and a dry wit … He can also write movingly … It's hard not to be entertained—and occasionally infuriated—by what he does."
"Hepworth devotes a fascinating chapter to the curious half-life of the Grateful Dead ..."
"The short chapters make this a fast read, and the variety of musicians reckoning with their legacy means that this should have appeal for a broad selection of readers and fans."
"Worst of all, though, is Hepworth's apparent lack of interest in how modern rock 'n' roll discriminates against the very demographic without which it would never have been born."
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