Name: Rock and Roll is Life: Part I: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One who was there
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Rock and Roll is Life: Part I: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One who was there

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Rock and Roll is Life pays homage to a formative period in music history, at the height of the Helium Kids’ popularity. Three decades after their heyday in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the band’s publicist Nick Du Pont looks back on the turbulent trajectory of the supergroup, traversing the bacchanalian excesses and tragedies of a golden age in British music.

ISBN: 9781912914524 (1912914522)

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Hugely entertaining . . . perceptive and sardonic . . . a dazzling rollercoaster homage to an era both bacchanalian and oddly innocent. -- Dermot Bolger

A literary version of Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, tragically narrated by a provincial depressive. -- Lewis Jones

This tale of pop group excess cleverly slips fact into fiction . . . Taylor's wry, detached style and eye for detail is a pleasure to read. -- Will Hodgkinson

D. J. Taylor has a gift for rendering the defining details of a world . . . It might be said that the book depicts a world that comes with the satire built in, but for good or ill rock music and its successors have taken on a cultural and economic importance that no one could have predicted. The subject requires a powerful imaginative chronicler. In D. J. Taylor it finds a writer closer to Balzac than it may even deserve. -- Sean O'Brien

Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of rock's golden age. Beautifully written and consistently funny, it is also a poignant account of one man's search for his own identity

A highly entertaining riff on the music business in the 1960s and 1970s . . . an immensely satisfying portrait of a creative and occasionally monstrous industry. -- Ian Critchley

An affectionate homage to a sub-genre of music journalism that has lost much of its cultural cachet in the internet age. Taylor skillfully combines nostalgic reverence and ironic distance in this genial romp, puncturing the mythology of the era while never quite repudiating its charms. -- Houman Barekat

Entertaining . . . By the end, you'll almost be humming the music. -- Suzi Feay

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