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Rock and Roll is Life: Part I: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One who was there
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Rock and Roll is Life pays homage to a formative period in music history, at the height of the Helium Kids' popularity. Three decades after their heyday in the late '60s and early '70s, the band's publicist Nick Du Pont looks back on the turbulent trajectory of the supergroup, traversing the bacchanalian excesses and tragedies of a golden age in British music.
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D. J. Taylor is a novelist, critic, and acclaimed biographer of William Thackeray and George Orwell. His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Award in 2003. Married with three children, he lives in Norwich, England.
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