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Book Title:
Uncommon People : the Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars
Author:
David Hepworth
Narrative Type:
Nonfiction
Publisher:
Holt & Company, Henry
Genre:
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Topic:
Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
ISBN:
9781250124128
Item Length:
9.6in.
Publication Year:
2017
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Item Height:
1.1in.
Item Width:
6.4in.
Item Weight:
18.7 Oz
Number of Pages:
320 Pages
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Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture Recklessness, thy name is rock. 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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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1250124123
ISBN-13
9781250124128
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234184162
Product Key Features
Book Title
Uncommon People : the Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
6.4in.
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml394.H48 2017
Reviews
Praise for Never a Dull Moment : "Wonderful storytelling."- Forbes " Never a Dull Moment makes you want to be twenty-five in the '70s again." - Associated Press "[An] expansive overview of the high-water mark of rock's album-oriented maturity... .[Hepworth is] sharp and zingy... .his mix of garrulousness and dry wit makes Never a Dull Moment a zip to read." -NPR, Praise for Uncommon People "[A] wonderful portrait of rock stardom . . . Hepworth's writing is sublime." -- Daily Mail "The effect is that of faded, evocative, partisan Polaroids scattered from the memory of one obsessive music fan . . . Uncommon People emerges as part of the drive to capture, analyse and archive key moments in musical history that might otherwise vanish from popular memory before we know it." -- Observer "David Hepworth [is] one of the best music writers around . . . Thoughtful and stylishly told tales." --David Lister, iNews "The research in Uncommon People is fantastic and its fascinating detail will entertain even those who think they've read it all before . . . Hepworth's knowledge and enthusiasm for music makes it a hugely enjoyable and informative reflection on the days when rock ruled the world . . . It feels like one of those evenings when you sit with your friends and talk about the music you love. Uncommon People leaves you with the same companionable glow." -- Express (UK) "[A] zippily entertaining portrait of the men and women with flawed outsized personalities who . . . belong to a fallen age of rock stardom." --Will Hodgkinson, The Times (London) "[A] colourful, richly marinated survey of the phenomenon of the rock star between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s . . . Hepworth is, in many ways, a dream author. Not only does he know his stuff . . . but he is alert to broader social and cultural trends . . . [His] chapters yield something of the satisfaction of a sharply observed, neatly shaped short story." --David Kynaston, The Guardian "Marvellous . . . The age of the rock star is over, and Hepworth's never-less-than fascinating book is a more than fitting farewell." --Dylan Jones, GQ "David Hepworth is such a clever writer . . . Uncommon People is a gorgeous read, celebratory and bittersweet, both pep rally and memorial, throbbing with insight and incident." --Julie Burchill, Spectator "This book is a kind of elegy for a glorious but passing phase in entertainment history . . . brims with insight, humour and a certain genial astringency." --Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday "The effect is that of faded, evocative, partisan Polaroids scattered from the memory of one obsessive music fan . . . Uncommon People emerges as part of the drive to capture, analyse and archive key moments in musical history that might otherwise vanish from popular memory before we know it." --Barbara Ellen, The Guardian
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-036561
Dewey Decimal
782.421660922
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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