David Hepworth
Autor(a) de Never a Dull Moment: 1971 - The Year That Rock Exploded
About the Author
David Hepworth is a music journalist, writer, broadcaster, and publishing industry analyst who has launched several legendary British magazines, including Q, Mojo, and The Word, among many others. He was a presenter of the BBC's rock music program Whistle Test and anchored the BBC's coverage of mostrar mais Live Aid in 1985. He has won Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer Award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He writes about radio for The Guardian, comments on cultural and media issues for many magazines and newspapers, and blogs at whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.com. mostrar menos
Obras por David Hepworth
Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop (2018) 41 exemplares
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America (2020) 20 exemplares
Abbey Road: The authorised biography of the world's most famous music recording studio, written by bestselling… (2022) 20 exemplares
Rock & Roll A Level: a very hard pop quiz: The only quiz book you need this Christmas (2019) 10 exemplares
Smash Hits Yearbook 1983 1 exemplar
Uncommon People 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1950-07-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- England, UK
- Educação
- Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, England, UK
Trent Park College of Education - Ocupações
- music journalist
publisher
editor
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 568
- Popularidade
- #44,051
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 36
- ISBN
- 48
- Línguas
- 3
I mention this as it’s pertinent to something touched on in David Hepworth’s history of the rise and fall of the 12 inch LP: the pleasure of not being able to hear a record because it had been deleted, or was perhaps just unavailable in your local store, and having to doggedly seek it out. The chase being almost as pleasurable, possibly more so, as actual possession. This is, of course, now an unknown pleasure in a world where pretty much all music ever recorded is permanently available at our very fingertips.
As told by Hepworth the glory years of the vinyl LP ran from 1967 to 1982. As this happens to coincide with the heyday of what is now known as ‘classic rock’ this book is as much a celebration of that genre as the LP itself. He also looks at the way changes in technology changed the sound and nature of the music that was made and how it was consumed.
A Fabulous Creation is part memoir and there are lots of autobiographical reminiscences of Hepworth’s life as a vinyl junky. Pure nostalgia, of course, but he recreates with wit and a certain poignancy an age in which the physical LP was at the centre of millions of young people’s lives. He recalls hanging around in record shops for hours at a time as an impoverished student just to be close to records, gaze at the often astonishing artwork on the sleeves, marvel at the names of bands unknown to him and imagine what sort of music they could possibly make, and hold the records in his hand. It reminded me that listening to music used to be as much a visual and tactile pleasure as an aural one.
This is an amiable evocation of an era when record buying was a hugely lucrative mass market rather than a niche one with an uncertain future. It wasn’t that long ago but in many ways it reads like an account of a lost civilisation. It was a time when many of us music obsessives said, with our latest album held proudly under our arm, ‘it’s only the music that matters’. When we arrived in the digital age and only the music remained, in an infinite virtual library of recorded music beyond the wildest dreams of even the most avaricious 1970s teenage audiophile, we were shocked to realise that the music certainly wasn’t all that had mattered to us after all.… (mais)