Uncommon People, David Hepworth
Uncommon People, David Hepworth
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Uncommon People
The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars

Author: David Hepworth

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/21/2017


Synopsis

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.

About David Hepworth

David Hepworth is a music journalist, writer, and publishing industry analyst who has launched several successful British magazines. He presented the definitive BBC rock music program Whistle Test and anchored the coverage of Live Aid in '85. He has won Editor and Writer of the Year awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer Award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He is the radio columnist for the Guardian and a media correspondent for the newspaper, and the author of Never a Dull Moment.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike

This fun and informative book depicts rock history from the rise of Little Richard in 1955 up until the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994. Hepworth dedicates one chapter to every year in this time span, highlighting the most influential artists in the English speaking world and the most important and out......more

Goodreads review by Peter

The age of the rock star is long gone, according to David Hepworth. It began with the first bars of Little Richard's Tutti Frutti and ended with Kurt Cobain's untimely passing in 1994. The demise has been caused by "the rise of automated percussion, the domination of the committee approach to hit-ma......more