New York: Grove Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this songwriter and composer, who, among other things has toured and recorded with Fats Domino. B. B. King and others. "Set inside the music and record business in the late fifties and early sixties, [this] chronicles the private lives and public careers of a cluster of people caught up in the shifting storms created by the advent of rock music. An insider's story of the singers, muscians, producers, agents, D. J.'s, and corporate moguls, of all those whose lives joined in the exhilaration and the struggle that went into creating the new music. As the story cuts between the recording centers of Nashville, Chicago, Hollywood, and New York, the history of the early years of rock'n roll dramaticallly unfolds." 446 pp. ISBN: 0-802102085.