Introduction: rock's third act -- The age of spectacle begins -- Rock enters its middle years -- What a long strange dip it's been -- The feuding families of rock -- The tour that changed everything -- You can't take it with you -- No goin' back for the byrds -- Eric Clapton's tragic hit -- Nick Lowe's indian summer -- The rock generation takes power -- The only act bigger than the Beatles -- Even the Sex Pistols kiss and make up -- Elton in the Abbey -- Madonna makes new hits from old flops -- Eternal life on the internet -- Social media put an end to rock star mystique -- Classic rock as costume drama -- The not entirely lonesome death of John Entwistle -- Rock goes to Las Vegas again -- Led Zepplin's hot ticket -- Glen Campbell forgets -- Wilko in the valley of the shadow -- Billy Joel's Saturday night -- All the old dudes -- That difficult last album -- Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize -- Toto and the human jukebox -- If anybody can save the guitar -- Liz Phair is still in the game -- Christine McVie's last hurrah -- The bitter years of John Fogerty -- Goodbye goodbye yellow brick road -- The old boys of summer -- Sound investments -- The immortality business -- In the end

"Legends Never Die: How rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Bob Dylan, and more have remained in the ever-changing music game. When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July of 1985, we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown, he--and many others of his generation--were just getting started. This was the time when live performance took over from records. The big names of the '60s and '70s exploited the Age of Spectacle that Live Aid had ushered in to enjoy the longest lap of honor in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else in the business had retired. This is a story without precedent, a story in which Elton John plays a royal funeral, Mick Jagger gets a knighthood, Bob Dylan picks up a Nobel Prize, The Beatles become, if anything, bigger than The Beatles, and it's beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks in a large part to technology, be playing in Las Vegas forever."--Publisher