The author of the critically acclaimed YOUR PREFERRED Band is Eliminating Me provides an eye-opening and frank assessment of the state of classic rock, assessing its past and future, the impact it has already established, and what it’s loss means to a business, a culture, and a means of life.

Since the late 1960s, a legendary cadre of artists-including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, as well as the Who-has revolutionized popular culture and the about Twilight from the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock sounds of our lives. While their music still get airtime plus some of these bands continue steadily to tour, its idols are departing the stage permanently. Can classic rock and roll stay relevant as these legends pass away off, or will this major musical subculture fade away as many have before, Steven Hyden asks.

In this mixture of personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Hyden stands witness as common rock gets to the precipice. Traveling to the eclectic areas where geriatric rockers remain making music, he talks to the artists and fans who have aged with them, explores the ways that classic rock offers changed the lifestyle, investigates the rise and fall of classic rock and roll radio, and turns to live bootlegs, tell-all rock biographies, as well as the liner notes of rock’s best masterpieces to inform the story of what this music supposed, and how it’ll be remembered, for supporters like himself.

Twilight from the Gods is also Hyden’s story. Celebrating his like of this incredible music which has used him from adolescence to fatherhood, he ponders two essential questions: Could it be time to stop on his years as a child heroes, or can this music train him about growing old with his expectations and dreams intact? And what can most of us learn from rock and roll gods and their music-are they ephemeral or eternal?