THE BOYS NEXT DOOR is the story of Alan Levy, a Columbia undergrad in 1960 who takes a semester abroad in Hamburg, Germany. There, he has the bad fortune to rent a room next door to an up-and-coming rock and roll band from the North of England. They call themselves the Beatles.
They are loud, rambunctious, and high-spirited. They are wildly unconventional (at least compared to Alan’s Ivy League polish) and play horrible, jarring music at all hours of the night. They are friends, however, with a young woman whom Alan has fallen hopelessly in love with—a beautiful German photographer named Astrid.
The Boys Next Door is a bittersweet love story and a tall tale; a fast-paced, comic what-if, and a true fantasy-fulfillment for Beatle fans everywhere. It’s a loving evocation of a time when rock and roll was new and dangerous, and when the lads from Liverpool were taking their first baby steps toward conquering the world.