Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: The Book Service Ltd
Publication Date: 1971
Drummer is currently out of print, but Richard is looking for a publisher.
Fictional Artist: Satiety Incorporated
Genre: Rock
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: I was able to contact Richard's wife, Jenny. "Dick," she told me, "Has broken his arm rather badly" so couldn't type a reply at the moment but told me, "Satiety Incorporated is not based directly on any one band. It's meant more as an expression of the novel's attitude to the society it portrays."
Jacket Blurb:
A novel more sensational than 'Groupie'.
A wild neon-lit, stereophonic experience, too out-of-this-world to be fact, too true to life to be fiction.
...at the first moment of their appearance in the stadium the screaming of the fans swelled to a chaos of sound. Malk held up his arms and appealed for quiet, shouting into his mike in a futile attempt to make himself heard. He gave a shrug and turned to the others.
- Okay, here we go. A-four, a-three, a-two, a-one!
They launched into the act. No one heard them. Like figures in a silent movie they plucked their guitars, mouthed and gaped, stamped, shook, gesticulated. The pace grew wilder and wilder and when Sonny smashed his instrument to pieces and hurled away the bits, began to tear off his clothes and scratch his face, the audience took it all as part of the performance. They smelled blood, and howled for more ...
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