The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco

“[A] superbly written, wildly entertaining, frequently hilarious, and finally bittersweet saga.”
—Time Out New York

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And everyone, finally, was welcome—to come as themselves. This is not a fairy tale. This was real, mighty real, and disco-sensation Sylvester was the piper.

Yale-trained sociologist Joshua...