In the summer of 1981, in the basement of a house on Long Island Sound, dedicated, ardent fans of one of the most important groups in the history of music gather to form a fan club. What happens there that day changes all of their lives forever. Over the next twenty odd years their lives merge together and mix with the arts, with politics, with marriage and divorce, with birth and death, with war and peace, with the eternal structures of human endeavor. In this brief introduction to a very long story the glimpses of an open ended world of light and shadow begin to be revealed.