1975: The Year the World Forgot
About this ebook
'Makes one crave a follow-up undertaking for 1976!' Record Collector
'Enormously entertaining . . . Never has pop history been so elegantly told' London Standard
1975 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.
The 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?
It 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.
Setting 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.
About the author
New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Dylan Jones has written or edited over thirty books. In the eighties, he was one of the first editors of i-D, before becoming a contributing editor of The Face and editor of Arena. He spent the next decade working in newspapers - principally the Observer and the Sunday Times - before embarking on a multi-award-winning tenure at GQ. During his editorship, Condé Nast's flagship magazine won more awards than any other title. A former columnist for the Guardian, Independent and Mail On Sunday, he is a Hay Festival Advisor and an independent BBC television producer. In 2012 he was awarded an OBE for services to publishing. He was the editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard from 2023 to 2025.
