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Twilight of the Gods is a wise meditation on why classic rock stars keep trucking, both on the road and in our dreams. As Steven Hyden brilliantly (and hilariously) argues, rock stars play weird roles in our lives: sages, surrogate dads, imaginary drug buddies, bad examples. Hyden explores why the world remains fascinated by the jukebox heroes of yesteryear-and as with everything he writes, every page is an irresistible argument starter. -- Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles In this poignant tribute to the experience of being rescued by rock and roll, Hyden manages to both celebrate and mourn the inherently ephemeral magic of his heroes: the original class of rock and roll stars. His impassioned but wry prose does his saviors justice. -- Lizzy Goodman, author of Meet Me in the Bathroom Hyden is an effortless writer, and he draws clever connections between artists and cultural phenomena spanning decades. -- Pitchfork Part memoir, part criticism, and part pondering both funny and fraught, Hyden's insightful writing about the genre and its giants makes for compelling and freewheeling page-turning. -- Houston Press [An] engaging (even loving) deflation of boomer rock heroes and traditions. -- Newsweek Warm and witty scholarship...a fleet-footed quest to understand the fascination-his and ours-with the boomer heroes who still hold an outsized place in the culture even as they're once again dying like it's 1969. -- Washington Post A wise meditation on why classic rock stars keep trucking, both on the road and in our dreams. Every page is an irresistible argument starter. -- Rolling Stone

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Steven Hyden is the author of Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Billboard, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Grantland, The A.V. Club, Slate and Salon. He is currently the cultural critic at UPROXX, and the host of the Celebration Rock podcast. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children. Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

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