TEN YEARS

 

Contemporary comedy, drama

68,500 words approx

 

SYNOPSIS

Ladies and gentlemen, My name's Jimmy Connor. Some of you may know me. I've been here before - many times, in fact. You see I've been with this band for ten years. In the beginning I thought that being in a rock and roll band was all about making records, but now I'm ten years older and I know better. Recording isn't the achievement, it's just a way of proving to others what you already know. The achievement is doing it, living it, loving what you do for a year or ten years or the rest of your life. It's about making memories. It's listening to a great song on the radio and smiling to yourself, remembering when you didn't want to be alive at twenty five and rock and roll suicide was the only credible way out. It's about the people you've loved and fought with, the people here tonight as well as absent friends. It's about the lights, the show, the crowd, the music. It's about being so proud of what you've achieved that you can't begin to tell anyone. It's about moving on. It's about bringing it back and letting it go, and it's about reaching a point in your life where things have run their course, and there's nothing left to do but say you've had fun, say you're proud, say you'll never forget and never regret a single moment, then say thankyou, goodnight, and sing one last song for the road, repeat chorus and fade away.

So ends rock and roll's greatest untold story. Untold until now that is, because Jimmy Connor is about to reveal the secret of his failure. After a decade of triumph and tragedy Flamboyant Gesture are finally calling it a day…but the story is only just beginning

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