Hope I Get Old before I Die cover art

Hope I Get Old before I Die

Why rock stars never retire

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Hope I Get Old before I Die

By: David Hepworth
Narrated by: David Hepworth
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

From the author of Abbey Road: 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 forever.

©2024 David Hepworth (P)2024 Penguin Audio 20th Century 21st Century History & Criticism Modern Music

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Fabulous Creation cover art
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There cover art
Nothing Is Real cover art
Too Late to Stop Now cover art
Can't Stand Up for Falling Down cover art
The McCartney Legacy cover art
The Closest Thing to Crazy cover art
Uncommon People cover art
I Was There cover art
Blitz cover art
One Train Later cover art
Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 cover art
Dip My Brain in Joy: A Life with Neil Innes cover art
Hotel California cover art
A New Day Yesterday cover art
What Have I Done? cover art
All stars
Most relevant
just because we get around……another work of genius from Mr Hepworth……so much new information to absorb with every new release!

People Try To Put Us Down

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
When David Hepworth wrote 1971: Never A DullMoment, it chronicled the year that much of the best rock music albums were released. Many of the same artists from that year are still around today as septegenrians still plying their trade, such is the longevity of their popularity.

The fact that these same artists; Stones, McCartney, Elton John et al have created music which spans generations vindicates the points made in the book about 1971. I personally never get tired of reading about them or in this case hearing the ever-reliable David Hepworth reading these aloud.

Long May It Continue

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Having worked in the music biz it was a great summary of how things have changed since the 1950’s. Well done David.

A great listen and many good memories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
David Hepworth’s books just get better and better. The way he tells a story pulling on cultural references from the whole of the rock universe is unparalleled. Every chapter is fascinating and funny. His narration is also excellent. He’s one of only a few authors whose books I will go back to many times. Fantastic!

Absolutely fantastic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This rumination of all things musical and the acceptance of lifes inevitable changes, endings and hopefully beginnings is a written prose-track somewhat related to my own thus far........to be continued.

To 're-tyre' is to roll on.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews