Somebody Else’s Dream: Dakota, the Buoys, and “Timothy”

Somebody Else’s Dream: Dakota, the Buoys, and “Timothy”, written and signed by Maxim Furek.

Furek’s book celebrates the song “Timothy,” Luzerne County’s most controversial song, which eerily paralleled the 1963 Sheppton mining disaster. Written by Broadway playwright Rupert Holmes, “Timothy” was banned by numerous radio stations because of “inappropriate content” but became a hit by The Buoys from Wilkes-Barre.

Somebody Else’s Dream depicts a cautionary tale of substance abuse, the pitfalls of censorship, and the actual price of the rock and roll fantasy. Furek also wrote, Sheppton: The Myth, Miracle, & Music.