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"Some records aren't just music. They're doors." Ray Webb is twenty-two, sells sneakers in Detroit, and has perfected the art of nodding along while his Uncle Darnell talks about music. The bucket list. The notebook. The stories Ray has heard so many times he could recite them in his sleep. But when a road trip to Paisley Park leads to a door that shouldn't exist, Ray steps through—and lands in 1985. Guided by the mysterious Selector Seven, Ray embarks on a quest to collect four legendary records from the year that changed everything. His journey takes him from the turntables of Harlem to the stages of Philadelphia, from the hallowed ground of Howard University's Yard to the streets of Atlanta—a world where Run-DMC is rewriting the rules, Prince is building an empire in purple, and Live Aid is about to bring ninety thousand people together in a stadium with no Wi-Fi. Along the way, he meets Simone Carter—a music journalism student who walks through 1985 like she's already written the definitive article about it. Together, they witness history being made: the birth of hip-hop's golden age, the electric rise of New Jack Swing, and the moment when Bruce Springsteen made an entire arena believe they were all born to run. Run That Back is a time-travel novel for anyone who has ever pressed rewind on a song because they weren't ready for it to end. It's about the records that built a culture, the people who carried the sound forward, and the extraordinary power of what gets remembered. For everyone who made the music. It mattered. It still matters. Don't forget.
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