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Overture (Introduction)

1. Overture: If You’re Already Working on a Playlist to Go with This Book, You’ve Come to the Right Place

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2. Dear Boy: How Paul McCartney Rescued Me from a Rock-Starved Childhood (excerpt)

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7. Murmurs from Left of the Dial: Holed Up Underground at the Campus Radio Station (excerpt)

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8. How My Pleasure Tends: A Brief Tangent in Which I Try to Rationalize My Late-Blooming Love of The Grateful Dead Without Sounding Overly Defensive (excerpt)

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Chapter 2 (excerpt)

Chapter 7 (excerpt)

Chapter 8 (excerpt)