Young Hearts Run Free (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780007146406)

The 1970s is a decade frequently miscast; a parade of fashion disasters backed by a soundtrack of glam rock or frothy, mainstream disco. The generation who grew up in the 1970s remember the decade differently: inflation, strikes, and power cuts; the rise of the National Front; IRA terror campaigns on the British mainland; women's liberation; 'Mean Streets'; 'Taxi Driver' and 'Apocalypse Now'. 'Young Hearts Run Free' tells the story of the 1970s, celebrating the musicians and songs that illuminated the ideas, fashions and sexual revolutions of the decade including: the politicised soul and funk of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, the Punk explosion, New Wave, David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, gay disco, the Stooges, Patti Smith, the Raincoats, Cabaret Voltaire, the Specials, and black British reggae. 'Young Hearts Run Free' uses in-depth research, drawing not only on interviews with musicians, writers, and artists but also a wide range of representatives of the 70s generation. They introduce us to life and music away from the mainstream: nothing bland, nothing obvious, definitely not Abba.

Author: Dave Haslam
ISBN-10: 000714640X
ISBN-13: 9780007146406
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2007
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.92d

About the Author

Dave Haslam has written for 'NME', 'Face', 'Observer' and 'London Review of Books'. He DJ-ed over four hundred times at the Hacienda through the 'madchester' years. As well as various successful Manchester residencies, he has since played regularly worldwide; from Cream in Liverpool and Home in London, to Detroit, Paris, Ibiza and Berlin.

He is the author of two previous books: 'Manchester, England', which was named The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year in 1999, and 'Adventures on the Wheels of Steel.'