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Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s (Paperback)

by Dave Haslam (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial (18 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 000714640X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007146406
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 223,102 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'For Dave Haslam, Candi Stanton's song "Young Hearts Run Free" provides the theme for 1976. Political strife, race riots and the battle for gay liberation provide the gritty background for a grim survey of the decade's popular culture. Haslam has every right to look back in anger.' Mark Sanderson, Sunday Telegraph 'Haslam is determined to set the record straight and offers an exhaustive survey of the 1970's the revival merchants want to avoid.' Gary Lachman (founding member of Blondie), Guardian 'Haslam tells the story with an enthusiastic and discriminating eye.' Sunday Telegraph 'His book mounts a blistering, sometimes blustering attack on the nostalgic sanitisation of a troubled decade and offers a good-taste guide to its music.' Robert Sandall, Sunday Times 'As in "Manchester, England", his admirable cultural history of his adopted home city, Haslam cuts his subject into free-flowing chapters that move at speed between politics, music and personally rendered social history!The pace is breathless.' John Harris, New Statesman 'Haslam's book does more than redress the way recent history has been rewritten to define the decade as an era of bad hair and great telly and ill-clad musical kitch. The real life experiences of his cast of characters bear out Haslam's point.' Metro


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'Young Hearts Run Free' is an antidote to 'I Love the 1970s'; it is the real story of the 1970s from the critically acclaimed author of 'Manchester, England'. The 1970s is a decade frequently miscast; a parade of fashion disasters backed by a soundtrack of glam rock or frothy, mainstream disco. The generation who grew up in the 1970s remember the decade differently: inflation, strikes, and power cuts; the rise of the National Front; IRA terror campaigns on the British mainland; women's liberation; 'Mean Streets'; 'Taxi Driver' and 'Apocalypse Now'. 'Young Hearts Run Free' tells the story of the 1970s, celebrating the musicians and songs that illuminated the ideas, fashions and sexual revolutions of the decade including: the politicised soul and funk of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, the Punk explosion, New Wave, David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, gay disco, the Stooges, Patti Smith, the Raincoats, Cabaret Voltaire, the Specials, and black British reggae. 'Young Hearts Run Free' uses in-depth research, drawing not only on interviews with musicians, writers, and artists but also a wide range of representatives of the 70s generation. They introduce us to life and music away from the mainstream: nothing bland, nothing obvious, definitely not Abba. CHAPTERS Intro: Boogie Wonderland (Earth, Wind & Fire, 1979) One: Lolo (The Kinks, 1970) Two: Riders on the Storm (The Doors, 1971) Three: Freddie's Dead (Curtis Mayfield, 1972) Four: All the Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople, 1972) Five: Raw Power (The Stooges, 1973) Six: Sad Sweet Dreamer (Sweet Sensation, 1974) Seven: Turn the Beat Around (Vicki Sue Robinson, 1976) Eight: God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols, 1977) Nine: Handsome Revolution (Steel Pulse, 1978) Outro: Everyone's Happy Nowadays (Buzzcocks, 1979)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The true story of the decade taste forgot!!, 18 Mar 2008
By Mr. M. Broad "Matt Broad" (WEYMOUTH, Dorset United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Up until the turn of the "noughties" as we call the new millenium the Seventies always used to be referred to as "The Decade taste forgot".THen they were reinvented.TV Programmes such as "I love the 1970s" were broadcast filled with Talking Heads such as Peter Kay telling us how wonderful the decade was.Many of these people were born in the latter part of the decade so have a rose tinted view.I turned 3 in 1970 and was going to secondary school in 1979 so have mixed memories.Decades tend to be remembered through Telly,Music & fashion which is why large parts of them tend to be forgotten.So if your 70s memory bank is filled with flares,Abba,Glam rock ,Crackerjack this book tips the balance in the opposite direction.If you are expecting the book to take on a subject such as Abba and reshape your memories with "The Truth" then you will be disappointed.In fairness you may be expecting this as the cover of the book definitely trades on the retro images of the 70s(button badges,Haversack etc).What this book does tell you is that all of the above applied to the 70s PLUS THe Yorkshire Ripper,Terrorism,IRA,Industrial unrest,3 day week,Racism,Tribal Violence the arrival of Thatcher at the end,plus many other sometime forgotten realities of the 70s.
So,if you want a social history of the 70s with the grit included this book is for you.If you want the Generation Game,Space Hoppers,Chopper Bikes and Bay City Rollers then look elsewhere.
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4.0 out of 5 stars NOT ALL GLAM ROCK AND FLARES, 5 Jul 2009
By Mrs. A. Hunt (Bolton, England) - See all my reviews
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I grew up in the 1970's, and to see it portrayed on TV as mostly music and glam rock annoys me. There was so much going on which would colour the future not only for England but for the world. The strikes, power cuts, IRA terror attacks, the Yorkshire Ripper, and other things which are mostly glossed over as practically irrelevant when talking about the 1970's.
I started secondary school in 1973, so I remember these things, but trying to explain the 1970's to my 15 year old son is sometimes a total contrast to what he reads on the internet.
The thing which fascinated me most was the tribalism. This was the time when particular "gangs" and organisations started coming to the fore, something which I had forgotten over the years. How these gangs caused so much unrest and violence. I had completely forgotten that the root of these were grounded in the 1970's. Groups such as the National Front
and skinheads were always thought to be connected, but this book explains the difference between these 2 groups of people. You see that things are not always as they seem on the surface
This book covers these things and more. The music is mainly remembered as Abba and Glam Rock, The Bee Gees, but it was far more than that. There were some cracking songs and groups/singers around in the 1970's which never get a mention, including the Candi Staton song which is the title of the book.
This has to be the best book I've read for many years. Dave Haslam covers not only the things everybody remembers, but things which we have maybe forgot. He doesn't overwhelm the reader with his own particular remmbrances, he covers everything as a whole. Another thing I liked about this book is he doesn't patronise the reader. I have read books about the 1960's for a university project, and the way it was written made me feel pretty stupid at times, as if I were a small child and the writer was the teacher who has me standing in the corner of the room.
If you are looking for a book which explains what happened here in England, or for that matter, worldwide in the '70's you can't find a better book than this. He deals indepth too with the music of the times, and it is very very informative. For example I found out that the Kinks song Lola is about a transvestite. The demise of the Beatles is a feature which is covered, showing how their musical legacy coloured the musical future throughout the '70's.
It is an easy book to get through, and every page has things which have been forgotten covered in detail. It is definitely NOT a boring retrospective, far from it. It is written by someone who has a love of the time, someone who lived through it, who understands what happened, why it happened, and explains how it has coloured our futures.
It is NOT a book written by an author who sees everything through rose coloured glasses. It is a true account of the "decade time forgot".
It is NOT a book though which you can dip in and out of. It is a book which you will want to read all the way through again and again.
My 15 year old is eager to read it.
It is a cracking book. Buy a couple of copies because you'll read it so many times, you'll need to replace it over and over.
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