Table of Contents
Timeline viii
Prologue: Of Hot Wings and Fast Cars 1
Introduction: A Room Full of Strangers 5
Book 1 The Darkness/English Rog
Chapter 1 Amber Waves of … Rain 13
Chapter 2 Spaghetti Scarlet Letter 23
Chapter 3 Bullshit Baffles Brains 31
Chapter 4 Feathered Hair Fantasies 41
Chapter 5 "Just Locker Room Talk" 49
Chapter 6 Think Once, Think Twice … Duck 61
Chapter 7 The Other American Revolution 67
Chapter 8 Bar Mitzvah Disco 73
Chapter 9 The Pepsi Choice 87
Book 2 The Half-Light/Transatlantic Rog
Chapter 10 The King Takes America 101
Chapter 11 Fat Knacker's Words of Wisdom 107
Chapter 12 The Funky Chicken 113
Chapter 13 Like a Roiling Stone 123
Chapter 14 Crockett's Theme 135
Chapter 15 My American Twin 147
Chapter 16 Super Bowl Shuffle 159
Chapter 17 The Goers Go 163
Book 3 The Light/American Rog
Chapter 18 Beef, Democracy, and Freedom 175
Chapter 19 Game Show Winner 179
Chapter 20 On Glencoe Beach 185
Chapter 21 Don't You … Forget About Me 191
Chapter 22 Midnight with the Fridge 195
Chapter 23 The End Is the Beginning 203
Chapter 24 New Rog in Town 209
Chapter 25 The Transformation of Titty Thomson 217
Chapter 26 Leveling Up 223
Chapter 27 Bigmouth Strikes 231
Chapter 28 Liverpool College Breaking Crew 243
Chapter 29 The Big Show 257
Chapter 30 The Wake-up Bell 269
Chapter 31 The Beastie Boys and the Liverpool Welcome 279
Chapter 32 We've Got to Make a Decision 291
Epilogue 301
Afterword 312
Acknowledgments 317
About the Author 323