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Sold-out concerts, screaming fans, TV shows, Number Ones. This is the rock and roll dream, and the Wonderkids are living it. But somethings wrong. The gigs are sold out, sure, but the halls are packed with little kidsnot sexy hipsters. And that screaming? It sounds more wailing, actually. The TV appearances are PBS on Saturday morning, rather than Saturday Night Live, and as for Number Ones . . . you dont want to know. Exposed in his impressionable youth to the absurdist literature of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, the Wonderkids lead singer, songwriter, and resident mad genius Blake Lear has always written lyrics as silly as they are infectious. Why make sense, he says, when nonsense is so much more fun? Rock and roll has always been for the kids, right? This is why Blake has no objection when the band is offered a deal with the devil: the Wonderkids will be rock stars, adored and revered. The catch? Their audience will be children. They will be a kindie band avant la lettre , before the Wiggles and Dan Zanes were a twinkle in Raffis eye. The band takes America by storm, and things go very rightuntil they go very wrong. The temptations of the road are many, and the Wonderkids are

Author

Wesley Stace

Publisher

New York, NY: The Overlook Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468309829

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Music, Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14