{"product_id":"9781408721988-1975","title":"1975","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Year the World Forgot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA definitive retelling of the greatest year for music - 1975 - told fifty years on.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a myth that the long, dark days before punk were full of legions of British prog rock groups; that the likes of Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson Lake \u0026amp; Palmer and Jethro Tull roamed the land, soiling the culture like university-educated Orcs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mid-seventies were dense with extraordinarily sophisticated, mature rock music made by singers, songwriters and musicians who had no problem calling themselves artists. And the records they made aspired to artistic status: everyone was trying to make their own masterpiece, and the sense of competitiveness was like something not seen since the mid-sixties. Three-minute pop singles had given way to concept albums and pop-package tours had been supplanted by rock festivals, and rock in general had a renewed sense of ambition.\u003cbr\u003e1975 was the apotheosis of the adult pop, the most important year in the narrative arc of post-war music, and a year that was rich with masterpieces: \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\u003eAnother Green World \u003c\/i\u003eby Brian Eno, \u003ci\u003eThe Hissing of Summer Lawns\u003c\/i\u003e by Joni Mitchell and \u003ci\u003eA Night at the Opera\u003c\/i\u003e by Queen, amongst countless other legendary albums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese records 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 indeed a record as unimpeachable and as prescient as \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1975, as Dylan Jones expertly illustrates, was the greatest year of them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55125710963062,"sku":"9781408721988","price":18.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34340592_0c9547ba-88b6-4230-b58b-c725a7d8909c.jpg?v=1747275304","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408721988-1975","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}