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Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire

Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire

Hepworth, David

Paperback

Pop/RockMusic Reference

ISBN13: 9798895150061
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
From the author of Abbey Road and Never a Dull Moment, the basis for AppleTV's 1971 documentary, come the stories of how rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, and more have survived, thrived, and remained the most powerful forces in music.

When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July of 1985, we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was forty-three 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 honor in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else in the business had retired.

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 a Nobel Prize, The Beatles become, if anything, bigger than The Beatles, and it's beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks in a large part to technology, be playing in Las Vegas forever.

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