It's 1978 and Nick Du Pont, one-time PR man to Sixties rock behemoths the Helium Kids, is back in London and bent on founding his own record label. A new kind of music - sharp, hard and dangerous - is bursting onto the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic and Nick wants a slice of the action - in particular, the work of The Flame Throwers, the most provocative assemblage of street-smart desperadoes ever to hail from downtown Los Angeles. Picking up from where the highly-praised Rock and Roll is Life (2018) left off, this is the story of Resurgam Records and the personal traumas and tragedies that attended its coruscating rise - until the time when, as so invariably happens, the dancers shuffle to a halt and the music stops. 'Taylor's 1,000-watt satire is set half in the real rockbiz,' Philip Norman has observed, and 'half in an imaginary one whose monsters are just as believable - and unbelievable. A near-narcotic treat.
| ISBN: | 9781912914548 |
| Publication date: | 14th September 2023 |
| Author: | D J Taylor |
| Publisher: | Mensch Publishing an imprint of Mensch Publishing COMMIS |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Genres: |
Fiction based on or inspired by true events |
It's 1978 and Nick Du Pont, one-time PR man to Sixties rock behemoths the Helium Kids, is back in London and bent on founding his own record label. A new kind of music - sharp, hard and dangerous - is bursting onto the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic and Nick wants a slice of the action - in particular, the work of The Flame Throwers, the most provocative assemblage of street-smart desperadoes ever to hail from downtown Los Angeles. Picking up from where the highly-praised Rock and Roll is Life (2018) left off, this is the story of Resurgam Records and the personal traumas and tragedies that attended its coruscating rise - until the time when, as so invariably happens, the dancers shuffle to a halt and the music stops. 'Taylor's 1,000-watt satire is set half in the real rockbiz,' Philip Norman has observed, and 'half in an imaginary one whose monsters are just as believable - and unbelievable. A near-narcotic treat.
Rock and Roll Is Life. Part II The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There features in the following genres: Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Rock and Roll Is Life. Part II The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There is available in Paperback
Rock and Roll Is Life. Part II The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There was written by D J Taylor and published by Mensch Publishing an imprint of Mensch Publishing COMMIS
Rock and Roll Is Life. Part II The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There has 416 pages
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