David Hepworth Hope I Get Old Before I Die : Why rock stars never retire Hardback

From the bestselling author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the everchanging music game. May be his best yet...recommended to anyone for whom pop music means anything at all Daily MailHepworth is a genuinely great writer, with a winning turn of phrase GuardianWhen Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985, we thought he was rocks Grand Old Man. He was fortythree 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. 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 its beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks to the march of technology, be playing Las Vegas for ever. Offers solid insights into the compulsions and drives that keep bands reforming Sunday TimesThe book is destined to become the goto text on a subject we never thought wed have to survey Literary ReviewReads like a series of rich, fastpaced and immensely funny short stories The OldiePraise for David HepworthSuch... | David Hepworth Hope I Get Old Before I Die : Why rock stars never retire Hardback