The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers: A Novel
For “fans of Daisy Jones and the Six,” what the cover copy suggested.
The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers: A Novel
As an astrologer, one of the first bits I that was ground into my head? “Saturn Return,” and along with it, the famous deaths of rocks stars around age 27 or 28.
The book is about a ghost writer who is tasked with a memoir, as told through the eyes of the wife/girlfriend of the dead lead singer, and it all harkens back to a time of myth and mystery, more just drug and ego-addled musicians, from the beginning of the 1970s.
The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers: A Novel
In part, ghostwriting.
“And yet the urge to exist beyond her work was too strong to resist.” Page 137.
The urge to be more than transcriptionist.
Towards the end, I was thinking this was more of a murder-mystery wrapped up to look like a ghostwriter’s tale. Or an ode to stadium-selling rock anthems from days gone by.
Sprinkle in perfidious hanger-ons, European guitar gods and rock stars, and it could fit just about any legacy band.
The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers: A Novel
Rock on.
