Zum Hauptinhalt springen Zur Suche springen Zur Hauptnavigation springen
Beschreibung

'Across 21 albums, Jones smartly covers the songs and music as well as the geo-cultural milieu that nurtured and enveloped them. An excellent book' Irish Times

'Makes one crave a follow-up undertaking for 1976!' Record Collector


'Enormously entertaining . . . Never has pop history been so elegantly told' London Standard


1975 was the apotheosis of music. Rich with masterpieces, it's the most important year in the narrative arc of the music of the twentieth-century: Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan, The Who by Numbers by the Who, Young Americans by David Bowie, A Night at the Opera by Queen and the eponymous Fleetwood Mac, to name just a few.

The records of 1975 were magisterial; records that couldn't be bettered. Who could realistically make a more sophisticated album than The Hissing of Summer Lawns? Or a more complex hard-rock album than Physical Graffiti? Or a record as unimpeachable and as prescient as Horses?

It was a year filled with an unparalleled sense of ambition, where the album was venerated as much as the modern novel, where everyone was trying to make a masterpiece.

Setting the music against the social, political and artistic context of the time, Dylan Jones brilliantly unravels the cultural fragments that made 1975 the greatest year of them all.

'Across 21 albums, Jones smartly covers the songs and music as well as the geo-cultural milieu that nurtured and enveloped them. An excellent book' Irish Times

'Makes one crave a follow-up undertaking for 1976!' Record Collector


'Enormously entertaining . . . Never has pop history been so elegantly told' London Standard


1975 was the apotheosis of music. Rich with masterpieces, it's the most important year in the narrative arc of the music of the twentieth-century: Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan, The Who by Numbers by the Who, Young Americans by David Bowie, A Night at the Opera by Queen and the eponymous Fleetwood Mac, to name just a few.

The records of 1975 were magisterial; records that couldn't be bettered. Who could realistically make a more sophisticated album than The Hissing of Summer Lawns? Or a more complex hard-rock album than Physical Graffiti? Or a record as unimpeachable and as prescient as Horses?

It was a year filled with an unparalleled sense of ambition, where the album was venerated as much as the modern novel, where everyone was trying to make a masterpiece.

Setting the music against the social, political and artistic context of the time, Dylan Jones brilliantly unravels the cultural fragments that made 1975 the greatest year of them all.

Über den Autor
Dylan Jones
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781408722015
ISBN-10: 1408722011
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jones, Dylan
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 16pp. colour and b&w
Maße: 191 x 128 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Dylan Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.06.2026
Gewicht: 0,302 kg
Artikel-ID: 135611654

Ähnliche Produkte