A band that bills itself as “1971 — The Greatest Year in Music” played Saturday night at the Alhambra Theatre in a fundraiser to benefit the Pennyroyal Arts Council and the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County.
“One of the points I make in the book is that social media has made it impossible for bands nowadays to have the mystique that Led Zeppelin had in 1971.
“You never saw them on the television, you hardly ever saw a photograph of them, you had very little idea what they looked like or how they stood onstage or how they behaved. You couldn’t go to YouTube and look up loads of clips of them. So Led Zeppelin very cunningly exploited this.”
– David Hepworth
Music journalist and author of the book, “Never a Dull Moment: 1971 — The Year That Rock Exploded.”
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
