A rollicking look at 1971, rock’s golden year, the year that saw
the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie,
the Who, Rod Stewart, Carole King, the Rolling Stones, and others and
produced more classics than any other year in rock history
The
Sixties ended a year late. On New Year’s Eve 1970 Paul McCartney
instructed his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London
that effectively ended the Beatles. You might say this was the last day
of the pop era.
1971 started the following day and with it the
rock era. The new releases of that hectic year―Don McLean’s “American
Pie,” Sly Stone’s “Family Affair,” Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Joni
Mitchell’s “Blue,” Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven,” the Who’s “Baba
O’Riley,” and many others―are the standards of today.
David
Hepworth was twenty-one in 1971, and has been writing and broadcasting
about music ever since. In this entertaining and provocative book, he
argues that 1971 saw an unrepeatable surge of musical creativity,
technological innovation, naked ambition and outrageous good fortune
that combined to produce music that still crackles with relevance today.
There’s a story behind every note of that music. From the electric blue
fur coat David Bowie wore when he first arrived in America in February
to Bianca’s neckline when she married Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez in
May, from the death of Jim Morrison in Paris in July to the reemergence
of Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in August, from the soft launch of
Carole King’s Tapestry in
California in February to the sensational arrival of Led Zeppelin’s
“Stairway To Heaven” in London in November, Hepworth’s forensic sweep
takes in all the people, places and events that helped make 1971 rock’s
unrepeatable year.
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