{"product_id":"1975-the-year-the-world-forgot-pb","title":"1975: The Year the World Forgot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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' Irish Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Makes one crave a follow-up undertaking for 1976!' Record Collector\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Enormously entertaining . . . Never has pop history been so elegantly told' London Standard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1975 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003eSetting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constable","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54856997077260,"sku":"9781408722015","price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4105\/4988\/files\/9781408722015.jpg?v=1783364396","url":"https:\/\/sonicbookshop.co.uk\/products\/1975-the-year-the-world-forgot-pb","provider":"Sonic Music Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}