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The consummate novel of the never-to-be-replicated story of rock.
Simon & Schuster
January 2010
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Featuring: Jack Flynn
656 pages
ISBN: 1439148457
EAN: 9781439148457
Hardcover
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The Year Is 1967. In England, and around the world, rock
music is exploding — the Beatles have gone psychedelic, the
Stones are singing "Ruby Tuesday," and the summer of love is
approaching. For Jack Flynn, a newly minted young solicitor
at a conservative firm, the rock world is of little interest
— until he is asked to handle the legal affairs of Emerson
Cutler, the seductive front man for an up-and-coming group
of British boys with a sound that could take them all the
way. Thus begins Jack Flynn's career with the Ravons,
a forty-year journey through London in the sixties, Los
Angeles in the seventies, New York in the eighties, into
Eastern Europe, Africa, and across America, as Flynn tries
to manage his clients through the highs of stardom, the
has-been doldrums, sellouts, reunions, drug busts, bad
marriages, good affairs, and all the temptations, triumphs,
and vanities that complicate the businesses of music and
friendship. Spanning the decades and their shifting
ideologies, from the wild abandon of the sixties to the cold
realities of the twenty-first century, Evening's
Empire is filled with surprising, sharply funny, and
perceptive riffs on fame, culture, and world events. A
firsthand observer and remarkable storyteller, author Bill
Flanagan has created an epic of rock-and-roll history that
is also the life story of a generation.
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