If you want to get to heaven

the long version

"It's 1973 and Rick Harrington has just earned a degree in music. His teachers tell him he's got golden ears. Play a jazz chord and he'd whistle the inside voicings-if he could only whistle. Hard to do when you've got cerebral palsy. Hard to get anything going when the world won't cut you a break. But his break finally comes when his brother Kid, a notorious rock-and-roller, needs a soundman and Rick is swept into a rip-roaring rock-and-roll circus of sex, drugs, and ambition. 'Not because of your condition or anything, ' a mysterious beauty says to him in the midst of a post-concert bash, 'but this doesn't seem like your scene.' Yet what other scene does he have? Kid Chrysler and the Cruisers are his shot at life in the real world. Brothers in harmony and discord, the travails of a rock-and-roll band on the road, and one very special man you won't forget."--Publisher description.