The One After 9: 09: A Mystery with a Backbeat

Rebel Without A Cause meets A Hard Days Night A DISAFFECTED LIVERPOOL TEENAGER BECOMES INVOLVED WITH THE BEATLES WHEN HES HIRED TO HELP PREVENT THE MURDER OF THE GROUPS MANAGER BRIAN EPSTEIN. Liverpool 1961. A city about to explode with the sound of raw-edged rock n roll-reborn. Beat groups outnumber street gangs. Gangs of Teddy Boys terrorise dance halls and clubs with flick-knives and bicycle-chains. Gangsters demand protection money and firebomb clubs that dont pay. But nothing can stop the beat. The beat goes on. The demand for drink cigarettes sex drugs and rock n roll just keeps growing. But The Beatles are going nowhere fast-and they know it. Liverpools grown much too small. Hamburg has become a drag. Its the same old grind-day in night out. The big question: Who can get them a recording contract down in London-get them to the toppermost of the poppermost? Only two men have vision enough to do it. Sam Leach-a pushy local rock n roll mad promoter with towering dreams way beyond his means. And Brian Epstein-the sophisticated urbane owner of a local record store. A group of rival promoters are plotting to push Sam Leach out of the business for good. The man convicted of beating robbing and blackmailing Brian Epstein has not only vowed to kill him but is about to be released from prison. Everyone it seems wants to spoil the party. Into the swelling scene steps art student Raymond Jones an angry young man desperate to find something-someone-to believe in after the death of his dad in a road accident. Picasso Pollock and de Kooning dont have the answers. Neither do Kerouac Camus or Sartre. So just maybe hell find his salvation in rock n roll.