Riding House Street

Alderson Lupton, celebrated pop musician. Born into obscurity in a poor corner of England, Alderson heads for London as a young ambitious man to find his fortune. He finds the big city dangerous and cruel and exciting and the crucible of his music. Meeting the beautiful and mysterious Calliope Wix they form a band that takes them to the very heights of global success as the sound of the Nineties. But in his hungry and grimly sad desperate days of poverty in London, Alderson has betrayed deep trusts. He has stolen with impunity and sinned in ways that further tarnish his torn-up conscience. No matter how great his success and celebrity and wealth become, he is tormented by how far short of his youthful dreams the reality of fame truly is. Yet his music rings through the world and he honors the truth of where he came from and the harshness of the hard struggle he endured to rise in one of the most treacherous and fickle of all businesses, the music industry. Ultimately his remorse and guilt and increasing paranoia lead him to lose everything he loved and valued. He pays the awesome price of superstardom, eluded by the one thing he craves: redemption.