A Pennylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with ...
A Pennylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Recounts a fable of a pop rock band formed a year after the Beatles took America by storm in early 1964. Jazz aficionado Guy Patteron, unhappily toiling in the family appliance store, is recruited into the band the Oneder (later renamed the Wonder) after regular drummer Chad breaks his arm. After Guy injects a four/four rock beat into lead singer Jimmy's ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the Wonder into a brief whirlwind of success, telling the tale of many American bands who attempted to grab the brass ring of rock and roll in the wake of the British Invasion.