'A compelling love letter to a year of timeless music' - Q
The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again.
The next day would see the dawning of a new era. 1971 saw the release of more monumental albums than any year before or since and the establishment of a pantheon of stars to dominate the next forty years - Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Rod Stewart, the solo Beatles and more.
January that year fired the gun on an unrepeatable surge of creativity, technological innovation, blissful ignorance, naked ambition and outrageous good fortune. By December rock had exploded into the mainstream.
How did it happen? This book tells you. It's the story of 1971, rock's golden year.
'Thoroughly absorbing and appropriately rollicking, expertly guiding us through one miraculous year in all its breathless tumble of creation' - Danny Baker
'A dry-eyed but deeply felt love note to the date when rock was still busy inventing itself' - Mail on Sunday
'A good mix of entertainment, insight and odd facts' - Mojo
'A clever and entertaining book... Hepworth proves a refreshingly independent thinker' - Daily Telegraph
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