David Hepworth co-presented Live Aid on the BBC in 1985. He was also one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test. David launched and edited magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, Just Seventeen, Heat and The Word, among many others. He has won the Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He’s written books about the recording studio Abbey Road, with a foreword by Paul McCartney, the British Invasion of the US charts called Overpaid, Over sexed and Over There, how the LP saved our lives, A Fabulous Creation and his latest book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die, why rock stars never retire, is out now, It looks at the time since Live Aid, when, according to David, live performance took over from record sales .

David Hepworth is our guest in episode 489 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

But David’s new book, Hope I Get Old Before I Die, here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-David-Hepworth/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADavid%2BHepworth .

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