Spencer John, Quartet Books Limited, 1975
Jericho tumbled when the trumpets blared... Nero fiddled while Rome burned... and now muzak threatens to enslave the whole world! Piped into every home, the sooting strains of the electronic lullaby have addicted the human race. Brainwashing possibilities are endless, and megalomaniac pop stars realize that the world is going for a song. Only Gros Fynn can save it, and from the womb-like comfort of his 365th-floor apartment he pluges into action against such villains as the epicene pop star Moby Williams, a blind, blonde, Amazonian assassin, the nauseating impresario H.M.H.M., and David Harleyson, a dwarfish composer in a cowboy hat. Aided only by his good looks, nerves of steel and some erratic android super-heroes, Fynn soon makes the bad guys change their tune... With this wild, ribald and highly improbable fantasy John Spencer does for science fiction what Ian Fleming did for spy novel, Stan "The Man" Lee did for comics and Beatles did for pop music.