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The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
Dylan Jones
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Description for The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
Paperback. One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. This book tells the story of the Eighties through that day at Wembley, sweeping backwards to the end of the Seventies, and forward to the start of the Nineties. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 123 x 35. Weight in Grams: 458.
One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending: Live Aid.
One Decade: Britain in the Eighties was different. The culture was different, the politics were different, and our engagement with the world was different. And it was just one day in 1985 that showed how different it was.
In One Day, One Decade Dylan Jones tells the story of the Eighties through that day at Wembley, sweeping backwards to the end of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099559085
SKU
V9780099559085
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones is the multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine.He has been an editor at i-D magazine, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, is a Vice President of the Hay Festival and a board member of the Norman Mailer Foundation. He has written eleven books including the critically aclaimed When ... Read more
Reviews for The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
Fascinating ... a unique insight into the day, and the decade.
Observer
Live Aid was such an utterly humungous phenomenon that, in many ways, it came to define our memories of an entire decade ... Dylan Jones [is] perfectly poised at the heart of it all to give us an electric and sometimes eye-opening account.
Star magazine ... Read more
Observer
Live Aid was such an utterly humungous phenomenon that, in many ways, it came to define our memories of an entire decade ... Dylan Jones [is] perfectly poised at the heart of it all to give us an electric and sometimes eye-opening account.
Star magazine ... Read more