Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire by David Hepworth
From the author of Abbey Road and Never a Dull Moment, the basis for AppleTV’s 1971 documentary, comes Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire by David Hepworth (Diversion Books; Paperback; $19.99; 3/4/24), the story 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, he was thought of as rock’s Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. Now, Bruce Springsteen is still filling stadiums at the age of 75 with no signs of slowing down, and 81-year-old Mick Jagger is still showing off his moves in arenas worldwide.
As a music journalism veteran with 50 years of experience writing for outlets such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, The Word, the Saturday Guardian—as well as anchoring for Live Aid in 1985—no one is in a better position than David Hepworth to explore the evolution of rock and roll from the ’60s and ’70s to the present day, highlighting the longevity and adaptability of these music legends.
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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