Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...
...thumps "into the black" in a rousing encore of "My My." As the album ends, however, the name on Young's lips is not Johnny Rotton, but Bruce Berry, a man whose only claim to fame was picking up after Crazy Horse on the road and overdosing on smack. Young brings the audience full circle by ending with Berry's tragic story, "Tonight's the Night...