Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 Audiobook (Free)

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Uncommon People, written and read by David Hepworth.

The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Just like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.

What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A particular way of having themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we’d.

What did we want of them? To become larger than lifestyle but also like us. To live out their tunes. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn’t stay the course.

In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of forty rock famous actors from 1955 to 1995, taking us on the trip to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more.

As this tribe of exclusively motivated nobodies went about turning themselves in to the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our true lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn’t only their tale. It’s ours as well.