Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star
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Authors: Heather Lynn Rigaud
Tags: #Romance, #Music, #Contemporary
| Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star | |
| Heather Lynn Rigaud | |
| Sourcebooks Landmark (2011) | |
| Rating: | **** |
| Tags: | Romance, Music, Contemporary |
Heather Lynn Rigaud is a debut author coming out of the fandom for Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice. Her novel,
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star
was Internet phenomenon, inspiring tee shirts, CD's and thousands of loving fans. Available for the first time in print, this sexy, adult romance is ready for a wider audience.
Fast music, powerful beats and wild reputations on stage and off have made Slurry the band of the year--and the media's newest bad boys. Described as temperamental by their kindest critics, they've just lost their latest opening act and their red-hot summer tour is on the fast track to disaster.
Fitzwilliam Darcy
, Slurry's tall, dark, and enigmatic virtuoso guitarist, knows that this is no time to be picky, but he never expected what was waiting when he, Charles Bingley and Richard Fitzwilliam crashed the Meryton Public House.
Elizabeth Bennet
, the fiercely independent and talented lead singer of Long Borne Suffering has serious reservations about joining such a trouble laden tour with the bad boys of Rock and Roll, but the opportunity is just too good to pass up!
On the Slurry tour, the music's hot, but backstage is an inferno.
Heather Lynn Rigaud
spends much of her time thinking about how Regency-era characters would exist now, and how a wife and mother would have lived in the past. She is a professional writer with degrees in music therapy and teaching who lives with her husband and two sons in Kingston, New York.
Copyright © 2011 by Heather Lynn Rigaud
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rigaud, Heather Lynn.
Fitzwilliam Darcy, rock star / by Heather Lynn Rigaud.
p. cm.
1. Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Rock musicians—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3618.I39378F58 2011
813’.6—dc23
2011026417
This book was originally written just for fun, and because I didn’t plan on publishing it, I used popular songs for the music the characters performed. This gave the story another element to enjoy and led to some fun discussions about how the songs fit into the story.
Fast forward to now, I find myself with the rare and wonderful opportunity to publish my little book. This is very exciting, but it means the songs have to go away to avoid violating copyright law.
I’ve now written new songs, so everything you read here is 100 percent my work. But I wanted to include a list of the original inspirations, so readers can enjoy them, too.
In general, you will find that Jane sounds a lot like Michelle Branch, and Lizzy bears a striking resemblance to Sheryl Crow. Slurry most closely resembles Puddle of Mudd.
Here is the list:
Chapter 1: Jane is singing “Everything” by Michelle Branch.
Chapter 2: Slurry’s song is “Breathe” by Seven Channels.
Chapter 3: Lizzy sings “Steve McQueen” by Sheryl Crow, and Slurry plays “Drift & Die” by Puddle of Mudd on
TRL
.
Chapter 4: Slurry opens its concert with “Crawling in the Dark” by Hoobastank.
Chapter 6: Lizzy plays “If It Makes You Happy” by Sheryl Crow.
Chapter 8: Jane plays “Everything” by Michelle Branch to Charles.
Chapter 9: Jane dances to Slurry playing “Control” by Puddle of Mudd.
Chapter 10: Lizzy plays “Soak Up the Sun” by Sheryl Crow.
Chapter 11: Lizzy’s video was made to “Steve McQueen” by Sheryl Crow.
Chapter 12: Long Borne Suffering and Slurry play “The Game of Love” by Michelle Branch and Carlos Santana.
Chapter 13: Slurry plays “She Hates Me” by Puddle of Mudd.
Chapter 14: LBS plays “Good-bye to You” by Michelle Branch, and Slurry plays “Blurry” by Puddle of Mudd.
Chapter 15: Lizzy plays “I Shall Believe” by Sheryl Crow.
Chapters 16 and 17: Darcy’s classical playing sounds very much like John Williams.
Chapter 19: Richard sings “Somewhere Out There” by Our Lady Peace.
Chapter 20: Lizzy sings “I Shall Believe” again by Sheryl Crow.
Chapter 21: Darcy sings “Hanging by a Moment” by Lifehouse.
Narrator: “This week, on
Inside the Music
: Slurry was the brainchild of enigmatic virtuoso guitarist Fitzwilliam Darcy, but it wasn’t until he teamed up with outgoing front man Charles Bingley that the group began their meteoric rise to fame. Tonight we will learn the story of one of the most successful rock bands on the road today. We will look at the band’s history, at the tragedies that spawned it, and the curious blend of personalities that make up the group.”
Cut to each band member in turn.
Charles Bingley (smiling happily): “This is better than any dream I have ever had. I have a great life. I get to do something I love, every day, and I’m getting paid to do it. It’s incredible.”
Richard Fitzwilliam (looking rumpled, like he just rolled out of bed): “Will’s gonna tell you it is all about the music, and he’s right, on one level. But you know, everyone has a story, and everyone has a song. It takes something more to be interesting, to be a success. I don’t know what it is, but we seem to have it.”
Fitzwilliam Darcy (staring at the camera): “You have this audience of millions of people and you want to ask me questions about my
hair
?”
Cue theme music.
Narrator: “The story of Slurry begins with the story of Fitzwilliam Darcy.”
Photo of Darcy, looking broody
.
“In 1982, world-famous classical guitarist and artist Anne Fitzwilliam married business mogul Walter Darcy.”
Wedding picture.
Stephen Fitzwilliam, uncle: “When they got married, everyone believed it would never last. There was a general feeling that this relationship was doomed. They came from different worlds. Walter was very serious, very conservative, very committed to his work, and Anne was this wild free spirit and people said that she would never fit in.”
He pauses.
“And in a sense, she never did, but that didn’t matter to Walter. They loved each other so deeply that they felt the rest of the world, and the world’s opinion, didn’t matter.”
Narrator: “In March of 1983, the couple had their first child.”
Fitzwilliam Darcy (looking thoughtful): “My parents had a relationship of equals. They believed very firmly in this. It was the foundation of their marriage. This belief was so strong that they named me, a product of their joining, by joining their two names, Fitzwilliam and Darcy.”
Narrator: “Fitzwilliam Darcy had a golden childhood. He was raised in the family’s elegant SoHo apartment and was exposed to a wide range of cultures and people. However, not everything was perfect.”
Richard Fitzwilliam: “My aunt was very focused on her career for as long as I knew her. When Will was born, she continued to tour and record, relying on nannies to care for him. And his father, he was always gone. He was very, very committed to his work. I always felt that Will was very lonely as a child. We would spend summers together, he and me and George, but he was always a very solitary person.”
Narrator: “Things changed for the family in 1993, when the Darcys had their second child, a daughter named Georgiana.”
Stephen Fitzwilliam: “When Georgiana was born it was like a new beginning for the family. She was such a beautiful child, and indeed, she has become a beautiful woman, but back then everyone immediately fell in love with her, and Walter and Anne found a new focus. It was like a second marriage with each other.”