When Elvis Presley dies, he joins the ghosts of Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent "in a bar underneath heaven". The bartender is Karl Marx, who knows that back on Earth, Marc Bolan is only four weeks away death.

Marx notes that three dead rock and roll stars in his bar all had working class backgrounds and no interest whatsoever in "class struggle". Maybe Marc Bolan, if saved from his early death, could effect massive political change that would benefit the masses!

And so Cochran and Vincent hop in a speed boat and zip up the Styx to the Thames in an effort to find Bolan and launch his political career.