This rude comedy provided one of the most brilliant debuts of a new British playwright in the 1990s. Jez Butterworth seizes his place as latest and possibly brashest of the "word-jockey" playwrights--folks like David Mamet and Eric Overmyer who use slang and standard English language with olympic virtuosity. This brutally comic tale drags audiences by the ear through the chaotic backstages of British rock in the pre-Beatles late 1950s. The dialogue is muscular, shocking, and constantly surprising.