Larry J Dunlap

Night People, Book 1 - Things We Lost in the Night: a Memoir of Love and Music in the 60s with Stark Naked and the Car Thieves, Book 1: Night People Larry J Dunlap

Publisher Marketing: NIGHT PEOPLE, an intimate, literary memoir, follows the first three, of six, years in the life of a young singer and three vocalist friends as they strive for success in a coming-of-age music- and romance-filled journey in 1960-era California and Las Vegas. The most important things in Larry's life in 1965 Indianapolis are his suddenly endangered marriage to his high school sweetheart and their two little boys, and his scattered-to-the-winds singing group. Improbably reunited with his Midwestern vocalist friends in distant San Francisco, they barely survive their own clumsy transformation into a working nightclub band. As their fortunes begin to change, Larry and his band are plunged headfirst into an adventure that will lure them into mob-run nightclubs, Las Vegas showrooms and backrooms, famous Hollywood night spots and recording studios, celebrity managers, unforgettable characters, and passionate romance-and the sacrifices it demands. It's the West Coast in the mid-60s: a historic era of tectonic cultural, political, musical, and sexual upheaval-and the draft. The band scrambles to overcome, or at least endure every obstacle in its path. But in the tumultuous nights the band inhabits, where things and people are too easily found and lost, Larry finds everything he thought he knew about life, love, and himself being challenged.