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.Hepworth is a genuinely great writer GuardianOffers solid insights into the compulsions and drives that keep bands reforming Sunday TimesMay be his best yetrecommended to anyone for whom pop music means anything at all Daily MailWhen 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.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 its beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks to the march of technology, be playing Las Vegas for ever.Praise for David HepworthSuch a clever writer SpectatorHepworths writing is sublime Daily MailA refreshingly independent thinker Daily TelegraphReads like a series of rich, fastpaced and immensely funny short stories The OldieHepworths knowledge and understanding...

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