David Hepworth
Host at A Word in Your Ear
Columnist at Radio Times
Book writer (https://t.co/q432G03jtd), podcaster (@wiyelondon) and columnist for Radio Times.
Articles
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2 months ago |
airmail.news | David Hepworth
Most books about the history of rock music are written by people who weren’t there when that history was made. It’s something they have in common with books about World War II: the authors may know all the facts, but they don’t feel the chronology in their bones the way they would if they had actually been there. I know lots of young people who know more than I do about the Beatles because they’ve grown up reading about them. On the other hand, I grew up living them.
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Jan 2, 2025 |
flashesandflames.com | David Hepworth
They say 'A Golden Age' is a time when things work in such a way as to make you believe they will work that way forever. It was like that with the British magazine FHM. Beforehand, it had been unimagi...
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Nov 18, 2024 |
radiotimes.com | David Hepworth
Forty years later, Geldof admits his second career might never have started had the first not foundered so badly. Their 1984 album had not troubled the chart. At the close of a gloomy October day spent trying unsuccessfully to interest anyone in their new single and, "thinking the best part of my life might be over", he slunk home early to his girlfriend Paula Yates and their young child. "That's how I saw Michael Buerk's report about the Ethiopian famine on the six o'clock news," he explains.
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Aug 31, 2024 |
literaryreview.co.uk | David Hepworth
The arrival of each new David Hepworth book is not unlike the release of the albums about which he writes with such precision and rigour. Hotly anticipated by the nostalgic ageing and the inquisitive young alike, it comes in its familiar jacket, the black-and-white photo redolent of the golden age of the British music press, the orange livery mirroring that worn by Penguin Classics. It’s a formula that has seen him enjoy critical and commercial success.
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Aug 30, 2024 |
thetimes.com | David Hepworth
The announcement this week that next year the feuding brothers of Oasis will reunite to play for more people paying more money than would have been possible back in their Britpop pomp is proof, if proof were needed, that in pop music these days, the greatest glory is often bestowed in retrospect and the biggest paydays can arrive a quarter of a century after the last proper hit record. It was not always this way.
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