Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 - Hardcover

Hepworth, David

 
9780593077627: Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593077628 ISBN 13: 9780593077627
Verlag: Bantam Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

As heard on Radcliffe and Maconie, Danny Baker and Simon Mayo

‘Fascinating from start to finish’ Simon Mayo, Radio 2

The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.

What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had.

What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn’t stay the course.

In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more.

As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn’t just their story. It’s ours as well.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies. He was involved in the launch and editing of magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word, among many others.

He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. He has won the Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer award from the British Society of Magazine Editors.

He lives in London, dividing his time between writing for a variety of newspaper and magazines, speaking at events, broadcasting work, podcasting at www.wordpodcast.co.uk and blogging at www.whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk.

He says Chuck Berry’s ‘You Never Can Tell’ is the best record ever made. ‘This is not an opinion,’ he says. ‘It’s a matter of fact.’

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Verlag
Bantam Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593077628
ISBN 13 
9780593077627
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Anzahl der Seiten
368
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