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<p><P>There is a light and it never goes out . . . or is there?<P>Welcome to the big Reagan &#8217;80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one or more of the following&#58; a rainbow assortment of Polo shirts worn with the collar flipped up, K-Swiss tennis shoes, a new cable channel called MTV, and Top 40 radio. Stuck in the suburban haze of Long Island, New York, Joe Green knows there has got to be more to life. <P>However, salvation is on the way, in the form of a quiffed-up quartet from Manchester, England, who take over the airways of a local radio station. Hearing the Smiths for the first time jerks Joe awake&#58; Morrissey&#8217;s wry and witty lyrics speak to him, and Johnny Marr&#8217;s driven guitar chords get under his skin. He destroys his Phil Collins cassettes, pomades his hair into New Wave submission, studies up on his Oscar Wilde, and falls in love. He even shows up for dinner on time. That is, until his favorite band breaks up and then breaks his heart.<P>Fast-forward some fifteen years. Joe Green is making a living as a rock journalist, stil

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Author

Marc Spitz

Publisher

Crown

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307531162

Category

music

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (838 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14