Worley Harper is born, except that isn’t his name at birth. His parents named him Harley Williamson.
Personal history of Worley Harper
From when he was born and most of his life he went by the name that his parents gave him, Harley Williamson.
Worley Harper is born, except that isn’t his name at birth. His parents named him Harley Williamson.
Harley’s forearm tattoo appeared with a burning sensation in the early morning hours, on the hour 15 years after he was born. The pain of the tattoo appearing woke him up, but it didn’t bother him further, instead, he grinned and celebrated by rubbing one out just so he could have his first holographic fireworks display when he came.
As soon as school was out for the day, Harley took the tram to the Slice of Aphrodite, where he found a hot Marine Corporal who took his virginity and spent most of the night in a hotel room until the early morning hours, the next day.
On nights when there weren’t many tricks to go around Harley would sing, to entertain passerby, pass the time and even get some trick to chose him. He wrote the songs himself, and used the holographic interface in his forearm tattoo to record music to play as he sang. Eric would have a spot just a few meters away. After a few nights he joined in on the second chorus of Harley’s newest song, and Harley let Eric see the napkin on which he’d written the lyrics. Soon both of their forearm tattoos glowed and when the song was over they had sex.
Harley’s trick for the night, Humphrey Boswell, works for Euterpe Recording Company. He takes Harley to a hotel. After they have sex Harley showers and improvise lyrics for his next duet with Eric Morton. Humphrey hears him and suggests that he should come up to the studio some day. Harley drags the Humphrey back down to his spot and finds Eric there. They perform together and Humphrey gets the idea to create a boy band.
Executives at Euterpe Recording Company talked five boys into forming a boy band, which they named Crushed Velvet. Worley Harper was the first one to be discovered by one executive, Humphrey Boswell. Harley – which was Worley’s original name – introduced Humphrey to Eric Morton and showed the two of them performed well together. Humphrey arranged auditions, through which they found Charlie Nash, Lewis Carter and Elliot Waters and together with Harley and Eric they became Crushed Velvet.
They went into the studio just a few days after the public announcement that the group existed. The main reason it took so long to record was the constant power struggle between the band members, lead by Harley, and their manager, Humphrey Boswell. Harley, Eric and Elliot wanted to record the songs that Harley wrote while Humphrey wanted to record the ones by a freelance songwriter that he’d hired, and Charlie pretended to side with his uncle, Humphrey. Lewis tried to stay out of the drama, but almost every day there would be a moment when Charlie and Lewis disappeared, and fifteen minutes later the bathroom would light up with holographic fireworks and then they would come out and the band would record one of Harley’s songs.
After a short period of mixing the album, Euterpe Recording Company released First Album of Crushed Velvet: Titanomachy at the Summer Solstice Festival that year.
On the same day as the release of the album they crossed the equator to Boulder Island for the annual Winter Solstice Festival concert at the Plaza in the center of the island. Humphrey tried to limit it to the band mouthing along with the recording of the three songs that he bought from an outside songwriter. They got a chilly reception from the audience. Then Harley pulled one of his stunts, revealing an orchestra that played a handful of his songs, which they sung live, and the crowd loved it.
To promote their first album, Titanomachy, Crushed Velvet went on tour throughout The Trident Coalition plus a few sovereign Hellenistic worlds. They performed songs from the album, stayed at hotels, partied and had lots of sex, both with each other and with groupies. Sex between band members often occurred on stage during concerts, especially during one of Harley’s songs, which had sexually explicit lyrics.
The band’s manager, Humphrey Boswell, joined Crushed Velvet on Dionysos for their concert on the stage outside Hotel Silenus. Humphrey claimed it was because the gig there was “such an important part of the tour.” The real reason was so that he could trash the hotel suite and blame it on Harley. He wasn’t very smart about it, since he did it while the band was on stage, so they all had alibis.
The wrap party for the third album of Crushed Velvet soon turned into an orgy between the band members, while consuming alcohol and sniffing poppers. Their manager, Humphrey Boswell, was guilty of putting the Ear Worm Virus on the second and third albums of the band. Hoping to cover his tracks, Humphrey murdered four out of five band members. Worley Harper was supposed to have died too, but survived and was briefly suspected of the murder.
Four years after leaving showbiz Harley returned under a new name, Worley Harper, with a new singing career as a crooner instead of pop singer. At first he tried denying that he was Harley, but soon realized that he was the only one who blamed him for what happened, and that he was wrong in doing so.
Worley Harper, formerly Harley Williamson, comes out of hiding in his home on Dionysos with a concert as his new crooner identity, in Semele City. In other words, he didn’t leave the planet, he just went from his luxury villa on the far side of the planet to the capital city and performed in a hotel run by one of his biggest fans, Crystal Daffodil