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Hope I Get Old Before I Die

Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road

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Hope I Get Old Before I Die

Yazan: David Hepworth
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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.

©2024 David Hepworth (P)2024 Penguin Audio

 20th Century 21st Century History & Criticism Modern Music
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Fascinating stuff with great anecdotes
Hepworth is a genuinely great writer, with a winning turn of phrase
Reads like a series of rich, fast-paced and immensely funny short stories
Offers solid insights into the compulsions and drives that keep bands reforming
Another triumph... Part whizz-bang storytelling, part social history, part forensic examination of an understudied phenomenon, the book is destined to become the go-to text on a subject we never thought we'd have to survey
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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

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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

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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.

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Another superb book in the series but my first Audiobook version so shall likely revisit the earlier ones this way. Salutary lessons here even for us lesser mortals!

Great insight, great voice

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A great listen. I particularly liked that last chapter and his more general personal reflections along with a curated playlist.

a whitty writer that knows his stuff

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