Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

A rollicking look at 1971, rockÆs golden year, the year that saw the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Who, Rod Stewart, Carole King, the Rolling Stones, and others and produced more classics than any other year in rock history The Sixties ended a year late. On New YearÆs Eve 1970 Paul McCartney instructed his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London that effectively ended the Beatles. You might say this was the last day of the pop era. 1971 started the following day and with it the rock era. The new releases of that hectic yearùDon McLeanÆs ôAmerican Pie,ö Sly StoneÆs ôFamily Affair,ö Marvin GayeÆs ôWhatÆs Going On,ö Joni MitchellÆs ôBlue,ö Led ZeppelinÆs ôStairway To Heaven,ö the WhoÆs ôBaba OÆRiley,ö and many othersùare the standards of today. David Hepworth was twenty-one in 1971, and has been writing and broadcasting about music ever since. In this entertaining and provocative book, he argues that 1971 saw an unrepeatable surge of musical creativity, technological innovation, naked ambition and outrageous good fortune that combined to produce music that still crackles with relevance today. ThereÆs a story behind every note of that music. From the electric blue fur coat David Bowie wore when he first arrived in America in February to BiancaÆs neckline when she married Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez in May, from the death of Jim Morrison in Paris in July to the reemergence of Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in August, from the soft launch of Carole KingÆs Tapestry in California in February to the sensational arrival of Led ZeppelinÆs ôStairway To Heavenö in London in November, HepworthÆs forensic sweep takes in all the people, places and events that helped make 1971 rockÆs unrepeatable year.

• | Author: David Hepworth
• | Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• | Publication Date: May 16, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Music
• | ISBN-10: 1250130913
• | ISBN-13: 9781250130914