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Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance (In One Volume)
Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance (In One Volume)
Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance (In One Volume)
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Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance (In One Volume)

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A band evolves with a gangster’s guitar, a favorite song, a friend, an amp, and a rusty drum set. A tour comes later after a dodgy bar, a murky fire, and a nervous promoter. Add a song, a night with a star, and a tragedy. Include screams and fans. Breathless lyrics and bum notes. Love and marriage. British invasions and California blues.....

Meet the Sparrows...and Bo Diddley, the Cookies, Patsy Cline, Bob Dylan, Ed Sullivan, the Beatles and more as they navigate through their Sidereal Days in the early ‘60s, writing, recording and performing their rock and roll music.

The moral of the story: It’s not the quiet ones you have to watch out for.

Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance. Books 1-2-3-4 now complete in one volume.

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Release dateSep 10, 2012
ISBN9781885294432
Sidereal Days The History of Rock and Roll A Romance (In One Volume)
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Earl B. McElfresh

Earl B. McElfresh (St. Lawrence University) is the author of Sidereal Days, The History of Rock & Roll, A Romance (Tammy Norie Press e-book 2012,) Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams, 1999) and contributing editor to Company Commander by Charles B. MacDonald (History Book Club, 2007.) He is a regular contributor of Civil War articles to Civil War Times Magazine. He has spoken on Civil War mapping at The Smithsonian, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Boston Public Library, The Newberry Library, The Harvard Map Collection, The Warburg Institute in London, National Geographic and on C-Span Book TV. His plays Marvels of Modern Man and Amid Planetary Music were performed at St. Lawrence University. His play Honor Luck received a reading at the New Phoenix Theater in Buffalo. His screenplay Lazy Eye was filmed and premiered at the New School in New York. Cartographer for McElfresh Map Company LLC, he has prepared twenty-three maps. Twenty of the maps have been main or featured selections of History Book Club. He is currently preparing endpaper maps for the four volume Civil War set being being published by Library of America and entitled The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It. He served two years in Olean (NY) city government on the Common Council—a great experience—and he played rhythm guitar with the band The Fabtones. The cabaret laws of New York City pretty much restricted their playing to the wonderfully hospitable streets of New York City. He and his wife Michiko have three children and a cat. Like Roger Miller’s King of the Road, they have no pool.

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