Jim Maclaine is a product of the Fifties. When boys were spotty and girls were out of reach - and nobody could play rock music like the Americans. On the day that he's supposed to begin his A Levels, Jim opts out of the academic rat-race and lives out his fantasies working for a holiday camp and at a fair. But the humdrum realities of life don't seem to have much to do with James Dean, Marlon Brando or Chuck Berry....
That'll Be the Day is Ray Connolly's novelisation of his screenplay for the hit 1973 film starring David Essex and Ringo Starr.
