I realized just how much pressure there’d be on nailing this part of the book, about what had gone wrong at Rivington Showcase. Through these interviews I was searching for my father, of course, but for all the Aural History readers, the faithful Mercurials and Phil-level skeptics alike, I had promised to deliver more. To squeeze out the juicy, page-turning details of the riot, and to get at why Opal & Nev—as a singular musical duo, not just as an empty image or the precursor to a solo superstar in Nev—deserved such rigorous attention in its wake.
