{"product_id":"1975-by-dylan-jones-9781408722015","title":"1975","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Makes one crave a follow-up undertaking for 1976!' \u003ci\u003eRecord Collector\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Enormously entertaining . . . Never has pop history been so elegantly told' \u003ci\u003eLondon Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e1975\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e by Bob Dylan, \u003ci\u003eThe Who by Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e by the Who, \u003ci\u003eYoung Americans\u003c\/i\u003e by David Bowie, \u003ci\u003eA Night at the Opera\u003c\/i\u003e by Queen, and the eponymous \u003ci\u003eFleetwood Mac\u003c\/i\u003e, to name just a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe records of 1975 were magisterial; records that couldn't be bettered. Who could realistically make a more sophisticated album than \u003ci\u003eThe Hissing of Summer Lawns\u003c\/i\u003e? Or a more complex hard-rock album than \u003ci\u003ePhysical Graffiti\u003c\/i\u003e? Or a record as unimpeachable and as prescient as \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSetting the music against the social, political and artistic context of the time, Dylan Jones brilliantly unravels the cultural fragments that made \u003ci\u003e1975\u003c\/i\u003e the greatest year of them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47734203973868,"sku":"9781408722015","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781408722015-1975.jpg?v=1781216080","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/1975-by-dylan-jones-9781408722015","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}