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Stories We Could Tell (novel)Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons, published in 2005, is set on a single night in August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died. It focuses on the adventures of three men, Terry, Ray, and Leon, all writers for the fictional musical magazine The Paper in pre-Thatcherite punk-ridden London. Parsons covers topics that deal with the role of music for young people, youth gangs and music culture in this time.

Plot
The three main characters work at a music paper called The Paper and in the one night the story takes place they all grow up in one way or another. Terry Warboys returns from an interview with veteran musician Dag Wood in Berlin who is coming for a visit to London to meet Terry and his girlfriend Misty. She disappears with Dag Wood for the night and because of that Terry does lots of drugs, sleeps with another woman and wants to kill himself. In the end it turns out that Misty and Dag just talked and Misty is pregnant from Terry. They are engaged at the end of the novel. Ray Keeley is a young music lover who does not like the new punk music, but sticks to 1960s music. After the editor tell him that his only chance to keep his job on The Paper is to find and interview his idol John Lennon, who is in town for one night he starts searching for him, falls in love with a woman and in the end finds Lennon after a long, sleepless night. The interview turns out great and he can keep his job. The experience of the Battle of Lewisham the week before have made a huge impact on promising student turned squat resident Leon Peck. His political idealism, he is the editor of left-wing mag Red Mist, leads to insulting reviews which eventually get him into trouble with the Dagenham Dogs, a gang of skinhead thugs. To escape them he runs into a disco to hide and meets the girl of his dreams. They spend the night together in his squat which gets shut down this very night. After running away he writes an article about a concert he was supposed to be at. In the end it turns out the concert did not take place and Leon loses his job. He moves back in with his parents.

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