The Outer Edge of Fame

How did a boy too shy to speak to girls at school grow up to be invited home by exotic women after a casual chat? What’s a teacher from the suburbs doing rocking out the audience of In Melbourne Tonight, hobnobbing at the opening of Richard Branson’s studio, or talking the cops out of raiding the Aunty Jack tour bus? How did he nearly meet Bette Midler? What is the son of a Jehovah’s Witness supposed to do in the Vietnam War, and how does the son of a World War II veteran take to the world of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll?