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From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game.

When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 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 honour in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else had retired.

Hence 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 the Nobel Prize, the Beatles become, if anything, bigger than the Beatles and it''s beginning to look as though all of the above will, tha

Hope I Get Old Before I Die

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    Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
    Publication Date: 1/5/2024
    ISBN13: 9781787632783, 978-1787632783
    ISBN10: 1787632784

    Non Fiction , Entertainment

    Description

    From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game.

    When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 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 honour in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else had retired.

    Hence 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 the Nobel Prize, the Beatles become, if anything, bigger than the Beatles and it''s beginning to look as though all of the above will, tha

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