Seconding "Storming Heaven." Make sure it's Jay Stevens' "Storming Heaven" though - there are a couple of other books out there with that title.

Because I'm easily amused and couldn't come up with anything for Huntz Hall.

Her boyfriend's real name is Mister Earl.

Ob La Di too.

Potential Opportunity
I have an idea for a sequel involving one of Charlemagne's sons that I'd like to pitch to Mr. Lee.

Let me change directions slightly and say the complaint as I interpreted it at the time was that although the programming was marketed as cutting edge, the real "new music" wasn't getting heard. Someone in another thread quoted "The Unheard Music" as saying the same basic thing and I think that's correct. If that's…

So your point is that the premise of the song was incorrect and commercial radio was playing American punk rock in 1983? I don't think there's any evidence for that.

Elvis Is A Punk Rocker
"Elvis Costello was too much a square peg for anyone to categorize as punk or new wave when he first started recording in the late '70s." I don't think that's accurate. Just about *everybody* who emerged as a rock and roll square peg in 1976 - 1979 got categorized as punk or new wave. …

I think you may have missed the point. "I hear the radio is finally gonna play, *new music*, you know, "the British Invasion. But what about the Minutemen, Flesh Eaters, DOA, Big Boys. and Black Flag?" As I understood it at the time, X weren't complaining there was no American music on the radio, they were saying…