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Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There

How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

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Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There

By: David Hepworth
Narrated by: David Hepworth
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The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times.

The resulting fusion of American can-do and British fuck-you didn't just lead to rock and roll's most resonant music. It ushered in a golden era when a generation of kids born in ration card Britain, who had grown up with their nose pressed against the window of America's plenty, were invited to wallow in their big neighbour's largesse.

It deals with a time when everything that was being done - from the Beatles playing Shea Stadium to the Rolling Stones at Altamont, from the Who performing their rock opera at the Metropolitan Opera House to David Bowie touching down in the USA for the first time with a couple of gowns in his luggage - was being done for the very first time.

Rock and roll would never be quite so exciting again.

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Think you know about the sixties, and the Beatles and the Stones etc taking over the USA? Forget it and listen to this! Another large slice of info about popular music from Mr Hepworth……you can only marvel at his insight…….

So much insight

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This is a comprehensive history of British Pop music and its impact on the US public.
Very well written and narrated.
Insightful and interesting.

Hepworth nails it again

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Thoroughly enjoyed this and will be listening to the albums listed at the end that I don’t know already.

Informative, enjoyable and wonderfully nostalgic

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I purchased this after enjoying '1971'; which I've subsequently played again after I got through 'Overpaid, Oversexed...'.

Again, it's a thoroughly enjoyable canter through music's 'Golden Age' with the usual Hepworth enthusiasm for the subject. As always, it's as much about the social history of the time as the bands that heavily influenced the period, which focuses very much on the '64-77' period. The early 80s MTV inspired era is given less comment.

In summary, DH is great and knowledgable company, especially for winter/lockdown walks and I'm moving straight on to 'A Fabulous Creation'.

Hepworth is always good company

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David Hepworth delivers another fantastic book to add to his growing collection. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Another Fantastic Book

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