David Hepworth

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

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Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Simon Mayo and Matt Williams welcome music journalist David Hepworth to the studio. His new book - Hope I Get Old Before I Die - looks at how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game. They discuss Mick Jagger, Elton John, Paul McCartney and many other rock icons, and just how and why they are still so relevant today. The book is full of great anecdotes, which are endlessly quotable, and is a must read for any music fan. We hope you enjoy the chat ! (here's a little more on the book) 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, thanks to the march of technology, be playing Las Vegas for ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome
0:13.2	it's another Books of the Year podcast we are very regular these days and we're
0:18.1	going to talk to David Hepworth in this show which is always an interesting thing
0:22.2	a cry for help from Val, first of all.
0:24.4	Matt's here of course. Yes, here I am.
0:27.2	Yeah. Simon and Matt. I last wrote to you at the end of December asking if you could
0:31.0	suggest a few duff books so I could save both my bookshelves bank balance and reading power.
0:36.0	To be honest it's not gone that well what with you recommending you are here by David Nichols Mark Billingham's books and then there's The Restless Republic too after listening to the
0:44.4	anarchy episode I had to go and buy that book the next day it is so fantastic.
0:49.7	Just recently I heard your chat with Chris Brookmeyer and the cracked mirror. My excellent local library
0:54.8	let me know that the copy I ordered was available for collection. I read it in three days
0:58.9	over the recent bank holiday. Wow you must have been going so it's a big book book barely putting it down which was a
1:04.0	tri-ful awkward as I had family visiting. So in the spirit of retaliatory
1:09.2	recommendation can I suggest you read North Woods by Daniel Mason. This is without doubt my book of
1:15.8	2024 so far. It's the story of a piece of land in rural Massachusetts told over
1:21.0	centuries and the things that live on it trees animals people and the houses
1:25.4	that are built on it told by individual voices it weaves the stories together and is in turn
1:29.8	very funny dramatically shocking and at times heartbreakingly sad.
1:34.0	It's about history and nature and our connection with it.
1:36.6	I'm sure your listeners would love it.
1:38.5	Love the podcast, even though you keep adding to my,
1:41.3	to be red pile. Looking forward to all future episodes okay so
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