{"product_id":"never-a-dull-moment-1971-the-year-that-rock-exploded-9781627793995","title":"Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Amazons Best Books of 2016: Top 100 Editors Picks  A rollicking look at 1971  rocks 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 Years 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 yearDon McLeans American Pie  Sly Stones Family Affair  Marvin Gayes Whats Going On  Joni Mitchells Blue  Led Zeppelins Stairway To Heaven  the Whos Baba ORiley  and many othersare 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. Theres 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 Biancas neckline when she married Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez in May  from the death of Jim Morrison in Paris in July to the re-emergence of Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in August  from the soft launch of Carole Kings Tapestry in California in February to the sensational arrival of Led Zeppelins Stairway To Heaven in London in November  Hepworths forensic sweep takes in all the people  places and events that helped make 1971 rocks unrepeatable year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279947882549,"sku":"ByrdShop_1627793992","price":26.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781627793995.jpg?v=1780616479","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/never-a-dull-moment-1971-the-year-that-rock-exploded-9781627793995","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}