In
the fall of 1966, Billy Turner and the
Lightning crashed out of Southwest Texas
into Rock and Roll legend with their classic hit song Pedal to the Metal. In March of the following year Billy Turner was
murdered in Los Angeles
Forty
years later, an anonymous British music journalist intent on solving the
mystery of Billy’s death tracks down Turner's longtime girlfriend from El Paso Hollywood music business
that took his life.
7 comments:
this book is amazing!
Hey Fin -- some of us at Authonomy were wondering what happened to you - even in your absence, Pamela's Song continues to climb (up 86 spots since last week).
Best wishes,
Pete
(Small Fish)
Fin, some of us at Authonomy were wonder what happened to you. Pamela's Song continues to do well, even in your absence!
Best wishes,
Pete
(Small Fish)
Because I grew up in El Paso, TX, and the teen club was always on my to-do list, I was drawn to read this.
It is fast read since you just can't stop--whipping through one chapter to get to the next.
My question to the author: Just how much of this 'story' is 'in fiction'? Who told Pamela 'the end of the story'? And why, even all these years later, hasn't anyone with the 'facts' taken this to the media to 'encourage' a cold case investigation?
Nancy, I'm glad that you enjoyed Pamela's Song. I tried to capture the spirit of SW Texas rock and roll.
Pamela knew the end of the story from what Melodie told her that night in Arizona plus what she gathered from the other people in the band. The story is fictional based on some of the facts and a lot of speculation.
When I started this novel six years ago I made up the Pamela as Bobby's girlfriend, so I was completely surprised to read a just month ago that weeks before Bobby died he actually did go to El Paso to see his old girlfriend, Pamela.
At the time of Bobby Fuller's death the LAPD did only a cursory investigation and has since disposed of the related files which makes further investigation very difficult, if not impossible.
The story jumps around alot based on Pamela's location and what she was doing in her life. Did you actually interview her and write this story around her biography and her life with Bobby Fuller after she met him in the bowling alley? Is she still living?
When I was researching Bobby Fuller's life before writing this story I read that he wrote a song called Pamela and recorded it several times over a few years. I decided to create a character Pamela who would be Bobby's girlfriend and when he got the song just right he would marry her. This may sound strange but when I actually started writing it was if I was taking dictation as Pamela told her story. So I was completely astounded when just a few weeks ago I was reading The Oracle of DelFi, the autobiography by Bob Keane who was Bobby's manager. Near the end he mentions that just weeks prior to his death Bobby went to El Paso to see his old girlfriend Pamela. Once again truth is stranger than fiction.
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