The Eighties by Dylan Jones - ISBN: 9780099559085
Paperback
Live Aid defined the 80s: Culture, politics, and personal revolution.

The Eighties

One Day, One Decade

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    15 September 2014

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Summary

Multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine and former ‘Blitz Kid’ Dylan Jones writes his personal history of the 1980s.

One Day – Saturday 13 July 1985. Nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending – Live Aid.

One Decade – Britain in the Eighties was different. The culture was different, the politics were different, and our en…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099559085
ISBN-10:0099559080
Author:Dylan Jones
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Windmill Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:15 September 2014
Weight:420g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 37mm
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Critics Review

Fascinating … a unique insight into the day, and the decade.

Fascinating … a unique insight into the day, and the decade. * Observer *Live Aid was such an utterly humungous phenomenon that, in many ways, it came to define our memories of an entire decade … Dylan Jones [is] perfectly poised at the heart of it all to give us an electric and sometimes eye-opening account. * Star magazine *Hugely pleasing … Dylan Jones looks at the Eighties through the prism of Live Aid. * Evening Standard *This is a bumper Live Aid book containing a wealth of backstage anecdotes which paint a candid view of the 1980s pop aristocracy. * Herald *

About The Author

Dylan Jones

Dylan Jones is the multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine. He has been an editor at i-D magazine, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, is a Vice President of the Hay Festival and a board member of the Norman Mailer Foundation. He has written eleven books including the critically aclaimed When Ziggy Played Guitar and From the Ground Up, U2’s celebration of their record-breaking 360 tour.

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