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Uncommon People

The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars

by David Hepworth
Matthew Lloyd Davies
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Recklessness, thy name is rock.
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.

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  • Release date

    November 21, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781541491700
      • File size: 303839 KB
      • Duration: 10:32:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Everything about this project is ideal for audiobook fans. The format--40 chapters, each highlighting a day in rock history between 1955 and 1995--allows for episodic listening. Narrator Matthew Lloyd Davies's no-frills reading is the ideal counterbalance to the exuberance, recklessness, and tragedy portrayed in each story. And the content, written by rock journalist David Hepworth, is well researched and well written. This eulogy to rock stars--and to the music business, as well--will make some listeners feel their own mortality while others will be fascinated by these extinct near-mythical creatures who were obsessed with sex, hair, shoes, and music. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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