David Hepworth > Quotes

“Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.”
― David Hepworth

“All records are moments. But the great records are for moments to which we wish to return.”
― David Hepworth, Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio

“It’s only when something has slipped away that we venerate it.”
― David Hepworth, Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop

“that in fact Who’s Next is way better than “Lifehouse” could ever have hoped to be and that it continues to be played, enjoyed, and pilfered from long after the likes of Tommy and Quadrophenia have grown tiresome. This is largely because of one tune, which may well be the best recording of the best year in the history of recording, the five-minute opening cut, “Baba O’Riley.”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“There was a time when a handful of musicians could stay at home and live off the revenue stream from record sales. That hasn’t been the case for more than ten years, since the market for so-called physical product died. This is why everybody from the newest acts to the most venerable ones, is now on the road all the time.”
― David Hepworth, Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop

“Steel Mill were playing in the deceptively idyllic surroundings of the Clearwater Swim Club.”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“Nick Drake’s”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“name I can’t remember” was Ray Jackson. He got a twelve-pound session fee for playing the intro without which “Mandolin Wind”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“While writing this I got my record deck out and played [The Beatles’s] original 45s and mono LPs. The whole house was energized by the sounds, teenagers and all. This is music aimed at simply making people happy. Sadly, for rock critics, it’s not complicated. In the early cover versions the headlong dash to delirium was signaled by the yowl of joy announcing every guitar break.”
― David Hepworth, Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop

“In October in New Orleans he got a call from Chris Hillman, in the midst of a tour with the Flying Burrito Brothers, during which they recorded the ragged but appealing Last of the Red Hot Burritos. Hillman suggested Parsons come out and”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“Pink Moon, which came out in 1972. That was the end of Drake’s recording career. He died in 1974 at his parents’ home in Tanworth-in-Arden, apparently after an overdose of antidepressants. He was twenty-six.”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“gloriously all over the place, from a raging medley of two Howlin’ Wolf tunes, featuring George and Ry Cooder locking antlers on the glass finger guitar, through “Brides of Jesus,” which proposed”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“I’ve still got the copy of Ry Cooder’s Boomer’s Story that I brought”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“gloriously all over the place, from a raging medley of two Howlin’ Wolf tunes, featuring George and Ry Cooder locking antlers on the glass finger guitar, through “Brides of Jesus,” which proposed a previously unmapped connection between Procol Harum and the Band, to the almost Brechtian knockabout of their own “Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie.”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“The main reason why the Beatles remain, if anything, underrated is because their songs were primarily expressions of their delight in being alive.”
― David Hepworth, Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop

“Lou Reed liked the way the guitarist Steve Hunter played and subsequently invited him to”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“783 Bel Air Road in that time, “pounds of cocaine.”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“Dylan tried to do something similar by moving back to New York, taking a town house at 94 Macdougal Street,”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“According to Ben Fong-Torres’s book about Little Feat, that”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“Even though Johns had moved on to other projects, Geffen called him up and asked him to have another go at producing the band’s version of the Jackson Browne song “Nightingale.” They argued”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“And like Elvis, they are relying on the one commodity that endures after the voice is no longer quite the same, the moves have grown rusty, and the inspiration no longer flows quite as readily. That is the audience’s deep, surprising love for the music they made in the past.”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded

“Crazy Horse, whose first album had been released in February. This featured the first version of Danny Whitten’s song “I Don’t Want to Talk About It.” Almost ten years later this would be an enormous hit for Rod Stewart”
― David Hepworth, Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded