The Sixties ended a year past due – on New Year’s Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again.

The next day would start to see the dawning of a new era. 1971 noticed the discharge of even more monumental albums than any calendar year before or since as well as the establishment of a pantheon of superstars to dominate the next forty years – Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Moving Stones, Red Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Carole Ruler, Joni Mitchell, Fishing rod Stewart, the single Beatles and more.

January that 12 months fired the weapon on an unrepeatable surge of imagination, technological innovation, blissful ignorance, nude ambition and outrageous fortune. By Dec rock had exploded into the mainstream.

How achieved it happen? This book tells you how. It is the story of 1971, rock’s golden year.