![]() ![]() Her life is changed when she sees hears of Terry Hunt, Dürt Würk’s ex-singer, planning a reunion-farewell tour of the band he created after Dürt Würk. Now twenty years on, Kris, having given up on the big dream, spends her time working as a receptionist at a Best Western in a small backward hometown and generally being abused by the local clientele. ![]() The story is told through Kris Pulaski, founding member and guitarist of Dürt Würk, a rock band brought up by learning Black Sabbath guitar riffs, who almost made it big in the ‘90’s, and then broke up for reasons that will be explained through the novel. ![]() I’m sure that the name of his latest novel is no coincidence, a story where the rise and fall of a rock and roll band meets Stranger Things, where corporate sell-out and backroom shenanigans are part of the deal. Why this is relevant here? Well, author Grady Hendrix clearly knows this. Allegedly, the first the band knew of the album was when fans brought them to concerts to be signed. The problem? It was released without the band or their manager’s knowledge, part of a deal between their new record label and their last. Called We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll, it cherry-picked the tracks that fans counted as favourites. In 1975 Black Sabbath, the band that many believe originated ‘heavy metal’, had released what we would probably call a ‘greatest hits album’ these days, with tracks from their previous six albums. ![]()
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