THE BACK LINE GETS OUT FRONT

In a smoky cutting-room on Sunset Boulevard, the entire history of rock ’n’ roll flashed before my eyes: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Haley, Vincent, Cochran; and the high school heroes, all the Bobbys, Spector’s girl groups and the beginnings of Motown; and the British Invasion, the Beatles and the Stones.