Joe Esposito first met Elvis Presley in the Army in Germany where they would play football together and travel to Paris for the Holidays.
"Shake it, baby, shake it!" "Go, cat, go!" "We're gonna rock..." This is where rock 'n' roll was born-the record company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins.
Inventive, unpredictable and written with an original eye, here are tales of ordinary people who find themselves caught up in sometimes desperate, sometimes comic, but always extraordinary situations.
By the time Cody Hunter's parents rescued their son from the honky-tonk life, the boy had gained such insight into the human condition there was very little reason to believe he would ever be satisfied with singing "Hail to Rockford High" ...
Rebellious Miriam, who dreams of being a rock star, joins a band and learns to question her own goals and values.