NOTHING IS REAL

Following a lifetime of witnessing the music industry at close quarters, author of the bestselling '1971' David Hepworth has been a journalist and TV presenter and has a towering stack of anecdotes. Pop music is catchy. Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer? What's fascinating about pop music is our relationship with it, and popular modern historian Hepworth is interested in the human side, how people make the stuff and more importantly what it means to us. From the legacy of the Beatles to the dramatic decline of the record shop via the bewildering nomenclature of musical genres, with his characteristic insights and humour Hepworth asks the essential questions of music and life ? is it all about the drummer? Are band managers misunderstood? Is it appropriate to play Angels at funerals? He ponders 'A Hard Day's Night' 50 years on, Rubber Soul 50 years on (2015), pop?s greatest decade the 60s, Satisfaction, catching up with Bob Dylan in 2013, why Sixties rock stars never give up, what use are DJs?, and everything Hepworth knows about the blues, rock TV, why some acts don't make it, when novelists write about rock, why everything must be dark and edgy. Plus how he has measured out his life in record shops and why nobody has ever asked a girl back to listen to their iTunes! His Rock List makes great reading with 2 great songs, 15 memorable gigs, seven things he would tell a young band, 20 songs about Americans on the move and five records that always work at weddings (Dancing Queen, Open Your Heart by Madonna, Dancing In the Dark by Bruce Springsteen, the Jean Genie by David Bowie and Jump Around by House of Pain (because blokes can put their fists in the air and join in the 'Jump, jump, jump, jump' bit!) 222 page paperback.