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Hope I Get Old before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
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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.
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- C R Griffin
- 04-10-24
A great listen and many good memories
Having worked in the music biz it was a great summary of how things have changed since the 1950’s. Well done David.
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- Mr C Butcher
- 08-10-24
Outstanding
Another incredible book from David Hepworth, a master of popular music commentary and analysis. He expresses passion for the subject in a dispassionate way and navigates avoiding mere nostalgia effortlessly
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- alan ball
- 28-10-24
People Try To Put Us Down
just because we get around……another work of genius from Mr Hepworth……so much new information to absorb with every new release!
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- P. Hannon
- 13-09-24
a whitty writer that knows his stuff
A great listen. I particularly liked that last chapter and his more general personal reflections along with a curated playlist.
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- Michael McDermott
- 01-10-24
Long May It Continue
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.
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- Tom O'Rourke
- 10-09-24
To 're-tyre' is to roll on.
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.
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