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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword, by Charles Aaron
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part One: Dirty Back Roads
Chapter 1 The Founding Fathers Crash a Party—A School Is Started—The Parable of the Iron Horse—Keith Strickland Meets Fred Schneider
Chapter 2 Fred Meets Ort—Keith and Ricky—Ricky’s Little Sister Cindy—Kate Comes to Town—They All Get Drunk at a Chinese Restaurant—They Start a Band—They Give It a Name: The B-52’s
Chapter 3 The B-52’s Play Their First Party—Fake Fur Shag Carpet Muff Wigs—The B-52’s Play Their Second Party
Chapter 4 Mike Green Goes to a Party—The Fans, Atlanta’s Premiere Art Rock Band—Athens Still Latent Hip
Chapter 5 Curtis Knapp Comes to Athens—The B-52’s Go to New York— Danny Beard Rides Along
Chapter 6 January 1978, The Sex Pistols Play Atlanta—The First Atlanta Punk Festival—The B-52’s Outpunk Atlanta
Chapter 7 Danny Does The B-52’s First Single—The B-52’s Play the Georgia Theater—The Incomparable Phyllis—The Tone Tones, Athens’ Second Band
Chapter 8 The B-52’s Are Blessed—Mike Green Disappears—The Fans Blow Their Chance—Athens Dominates
Part Two: Speakers in the Window; Sprinklers in the Yard
Chapter 9 Michael Lachowski Bloodies an Arm—The Scrapes Clean Downtown—Curtis Crowe Gets a Loft—The Very First 40 Watt Club
Chapter 10 Michael Lachowski Rents a Studio—Randy and Michael Buy Guitars—Curtis Plays the Drums—Vanessa Sure Can Sing—Pylon Plays
Chapter 11 The B-52’s Have Manager Trouble—They Settle It—They Sign a Record Deal—Their First Album Comes Out
Chapter 12 Kathleen O’Brien Meets Bill Berry—The Story of Bill and Mike— The Girls in the Subbasement—The Scene Heats Up
Chapter 13 Pylon Goes out of Town—Pylon Seals the Deal with New York City
Chapter 14 The Church—Peter Buck and Michael Stipe—The Punk Girls of Lexington Highway
Chapter 15 Life at the Church—The Method Actors
Chapter 16 DB Recs—Pylon Does a Single
Part Three: The Street of Stars
Chapter 17 Peter Buck and Michael Stipe Meet Bill Berry and Mike Mills— R.E.M. Debuts—Bill Drops out of School
Chapter 18 Athens Gets Its First New Music Club, the 40 Watt East
Chapter 19 R.E.M. Plays Their First Show in Atlanta—Mike Mills Is Late for an Interview—R.E.M. Goes to North Carolina—A Rock-and-Roll Sick Thing
Chapter 20 “Something Is Happening in Athens”—The Post-Bouffant Bop— Pylon Park—Love Tractor Debuts
Chapter 21 The Make Me Dance House—Berber Street—R.E.M. Headquarters—The Street of Stars
Chapter 22 The Men’s Club—A Fresh Season in Athens—R.E.M. Raids the Countryside—R.E.M. Records a Single
Chapter 23 The New Coffee Club—Oh-OK—The B-52’s Crisis
Chapter 24 R.E.M. Records Chronic Town—R.E.M. Signs with I.R.S.— R.E.M. Rules
Chapter 25 Love Tractor—The Side Effects—Oh-OK—The Method Actors— None Can Compare to R.E.M.—Back at Home, the Girls Wait
Chapter 26 A Photograph Is Taken—R.E.M. Releases Murmur, Their First Album—A Cold Wind Blows through Athens
Chapter 27 The Athens Show—The Whole World Is Watching
Chapter 28 Fade Out
Epilogue: . . . And Then What Happened?
Afterword: Why Athens? by David Barbe
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