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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
Da Capo Press
June 2011
On Sale: May 31, 2011
392 pages ISBN: 0306818507 EAN: 9780306818509 Hardcover
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January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the
finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling
Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart
singer-songwriter who’s just completed Sweet Baby James.
Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives--and
the world around them--will change irrevocably. Fire and
Rain tells the story of four iconic albums of 1970 and the
lives, times, and constantly intertwining personal ties of
the remarkable artists who made them. Acclaimed journalist
David Browne sets these stories against an increasingly
chaotic backdrop of events that sent the world spinning
throughout that tumultuous year: Kent State, the Apollo 13
debacle, ongoing bombings by radical left-wing groups, the
diffusion of the antiwar movement, and much more. Featuring candid interviews with more than 100 luminaries,
including some of the artists themselves, Browne's vivid
narrative tells the incredible story of how--over the course
of twelve turbulent months--the '60s effectively ended and
the '70s began.
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