Fire and Rain, David Browne
Fire and Rain, David Browne
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Fire and Rain
The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost - Story of 1970

Author: David Browne

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/19/2011


Synopsis

January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter who's just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives—and the world around them—will change irrevocably.

Fire and Rain tells the story of four iconic albums of 1970 and the lives, times, and constantly intertwining personal ties of the remarkable artists who made them. Acclaimed journalist David Browne sets these stories against an increasingly chaotic backdrop of events that sent the world spinning throughout that tumultuous year: Kent State, the Apollo 13 debacle, ongoing bombings by radical left-wing groups, the diffusion of the antiwar movement, and much more.

Featuring candid interviews with more than one hundred luminaries, including some of the artists themselves, Browne's vivid narrative tells the incredible story of how—over the course of twelve turbulent months—the '60s effectively ended and the '70s began.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thelma

Full confession: I had a decade-long crush on Graham Nash. The song "Our House," his love song to his ex Joni Mitchell (Her Blue was my favorite cry album through high school and college), has a prominent place in my novel Playdate, along with The Beatles' Octopus's Garden. But, given all my love fo......more

Goodreads review by Sid

I thought Fire And Rain was excellent. It’s an extremely thorough, well researched account of the events and people surrounding the making of four seminal albums from 1970: Let It Be, Deja Vu, Bridge Over Troubled Water and Fire And Rain. (It’s worth saying that if you don’t know the albums and the......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

Years ago I read that, while they were recording the 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' album, Simon and Garfunkel hardly saw each other. Simon would go to the studio and record his tracks, and Garfunkel would go some other time and record his tracks, etc. I was crushed to learn this. I had always thought......more