Uncommon people : the rise and fall of the rock stars by Hepworth, David, 1950- author instant download

Uncommon people : the rise and fall of the rock stars by Hepworth, David, 1950- author instant download

xviii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, 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, Includes bibliographical references and index, Machine generated contents note: 14 September 1955: The first rock star -- 26 September 1956: The first rock idol -- 6 July 1957: The first rock fans start a group -- 22 May 1958: A bad boy flies in -- 3 February 1959: A good boy flies out -- 1 July 1960: Enter the guitar hero -- 25 September 1961: A boy invents himself -- 28 September 1962: The man who fit in -- 1 May 1963: The man who didn't fit in -- 23 December 1964: The rock star as tragic genius -- 26 September 1965: The rock band as ongoing drama -- 1 October 1966: A new sheriff in town -- 18 June 1967: The first female rock star -- 15 May 1968: The view from Olympus -- 9 August 1969: The devil's business -- 24 June 1970: Rock god embraces the occult -- 16 May 1971: The comeback -- 26 July 1972: Rock goes high society -- 3 July 1973: A `rock star' retires -- 6 August 1974: Rock in a complicated world -- 18 July 1975: The best rock isn't always rock -- 4 July 1976: The X factor, Note continued: 16 August 1977:…