[EP 410] “What If You Woke Up a Rock Star?” with Charles Harvey

[EP 410] “What If You Woke Up a Rock Star?” with Charles Harvey

Published: September 3, 2026

Duration: 34:57

What if you woke up one day as a rock star—but couldn’t play guitar? Author Charles Harvey joins Booked On Rock to discuss his novel Xylene X Band: A Fictionalized Chapter in the History of X Band, a story that mixes rock and roll, identity, ambition, relationships, and the pressures that come with success. The novel follows brilliant but troubled guitarist Joe Ecks, whose life takes an extraordinary turn when he wakes up believing he is Mike Smith—a Harvard graduate who knows nothing about being a rock star and, most importantly, doesn’t know how to play guitar.<...