{"product_id":"the-eighties-9780099559085","title":"The Eighties","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne Day: \u003c\/b\u003eSaturday 13 July  1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending: Live Aid. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne Decade: \u003c\/b\u003eBritain in the Eighties was different. The culture was different, the politics were different, and our engagement with the world was different. And it was just one day in 1985 that showed how different it was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eOne Day, One Decade\u003c\/b\u003e Dylan Jones tells the story of the Eighties through that day at Wembley, sweeping backwards to the end of the Seventies, and forward to the start of the Nineties. It draws on his personal reminiscences and perspective of music, media, fashion, politics and all forms of pop culture to frame the decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a big book but not a exhaustive and dry social history. Live Aid was the decade's pinch point, when a nation''s attitudes and expectations were somehow captured and changed forever. The author suggests \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating ... a unique insight into the day, and the decade.\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLive Aid was such an utterly humungous phenomenon\u003c\/b\u003e that, in many ways, it came to define our memories of an entire decade ... \u003cb\u003eDylan Jones [is] perfectly poised at the heart of it all\u003c\/b\u003e to give us \u003cb\u003ean electric and sometimes eye-opening account\u003c\/b\u003e. * Star magazine *\u003cbr\u003eHugely pleasing ... Dylan Jones looks at the Eighties through the prism of Live Aid. * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThis is\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ea\u003cb\u003e bumper Live Aid book containing a wealth of backstage anecdotes\u003c\/b\u003e which \u003cb\u003epaint a candid view of the 1980s pop aristocracy.\u003c\/b\u003e * Herald *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732297822551,"sku":"9780099559085","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099559085.jpg?v=1719996312","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-eighties-9780099559085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}