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Steam: a rock 'n' rail tale
A blend of sixties songs and steam locomotion, with a touch of humour.
It´s the start of the sixties and the steam engine is being consigned to the scrap heap of history, along with Victorian attitudes to sex and young peoples place in society. From London to Liverpool, teenagers are forming their own bands. Rock music is big money - and money attracts hustlers: predatory managers.
Into these shark infested waters plunges Ricky, fresh from the village and working as a fireman on a steam locomotive, but determined to make it as a guitarman, as he struggles to learn how to fire up an engine, build up a rock band and cope with a new phenomenon: the liberated woman.
It´s the start of the sixties and the steam engine is being consigned to the scrap heap of history, along with Victorian attitudes to sex and young peoples place in society. From London to Liverpool, teenagers are forming their own bands. Rock music is big money - and money attracts hustlers: predatory managers.
Into these shark infested waters plunges Ricky, fresh from the village and working as a fireman on a steam locomotive, but determined to make it as a guitarman, as he struggles to learn how to fire up an engine, build up a rock band and cope with a new phenomenon: the liberated woman.
282 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 2, 2012
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