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If you didnrsquo;t experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s; this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes; up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big. It was a brief; heady moment for the musicians who found themselves on a national stage; enjoying a level of success most bands only dream of.In Everybodyrsquo;s Heard about the Bird; Rick Shefchik writes of that time in vivid detail. Interviews with many of the key musicians; combined with extensive research and a phenomenal cache of rare photographs; reveal how this monumental era of Minnesota rock music evolved. The chronicle begins with musicians from the 1950s and early 1960s; including Augie Garcia; Bobby Vee; the Fendermen; and Mike Waggoner and the Bops. Shefchik looks at how a local recording studio and record label; along with Minnesota radio stations; helped make their achievements possible and prepared the way for later bands to break out nationally. Shefchik delves deeply into the Trashmenrsquo;s emblematic rise to fame. A Minneapolis band that recorded a fluke novelty hit called ldquo;Surfinrsquo; Birdrdquo; at Kay Bank Studios; the Trashmen signed with Soma Records; topped the local charts in late 1963; and were poised to top the national charts in early 1964. Hundreds of Minnesota bands took inspiration from the Trashmenrsquo;s success; as teen dances with live bands flourished in clubs; ballrooms; gyms; and halls across the Upper Midwest. Here are the stories of bands like the Gestures; the Castaways; and the Underbeats; and the triumphsmdash;and tragediesmdash;of the most prominent Minnesota-spawned bands of the late 1960s; including Gypsy; Crow; and the Litter.For the baby boomers who remember it and everyone else who has felt its influence; the 1960s rock-and-roll scene in Minnesota was an extraordinary period both in musical history and popular culture; and now itrsquo;s captured fully in print for the first time. Everybodyrsquo;s Heard about the Bird celebrates how these bands found their singular sound and played for their elated audiences from the golden era to today.