Editing Peter Case (section)

===Early career===
Case was born in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], New York and lived in nearby [[Hamburg, New York]]. He wrote his first song "Stay Away," in 1965, at the age of eleven.  A veteran of several rock bands and the local bar scene as a teenager, Case dropped out of high school when he was fifteen (he would later earn a GED), and after several years of traveling arrived in 1973 in [[San Francisco]], where he performed as a street musician. During this period a documentary about the local music scene, ''Nightshift,'' directed by Bert Deivert, captured the young Case on film. In 1976, he teamed up with [[Jack Lee (musician)|Jack Lee]] and [[Paul Collins (musician)|Paul Collins]] to form the early punk-era band [[The Nerves]] in San Francisco. The group's 1976 EP track, "[[Hanging on the Telephone]]", was later recorded by [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]].

The Nerves moved to [[Los Angeles]] on January 1, 1977, and played and promoted some of the first punk-era shows in that city, performing at [[The Masque]], and the [[Whisky a Go Go]], among other venues. They toured nationally in 1977, the first independent band of their era to do a national tour, as they opened shows for the [[Ramones]], and [[Mink DeVille]], and performed on co-bills with [[The Nuns]], [[Devo]], and [[Pere Ubu]].

After the Nerves broke up in 1978, Case formed the rock n' roll band [[The Plimsouls]] in 1979. The Plimsouls became one of the top drawing live bands in [[California]] soon after the release of their debut EP "Zero Hour" on the [[Beat Records]] label in 1979. They grew in popularity and had two major label albums, the first on [[Planet Records|Planet]]/[[Elektra Records|Elektra]] in 1981, and the next on [[Geffen Records]], in 1983. In 1982, "A Million Miles Away"  was released as a 12" single, on the Shaky City/[[Bomp! Records|Bomp!]] label, and became the band's signature song. It was a radio hit in California, and some other regions of the U.S. It eventually charted at number 82 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. Their songs "A Million Miles Away," "The Oldest Story in the World," and "Everywhere At Once" were included in the movie ''[[Valley Girl (1983 film)|Valley Girl]]'' (1983), but by the time that movie had become a cult favorite, the group had broken up.

Case briefly performed with [[Gurf Morlix]], [[Victoria Williams]] (Case's first wife), and [[Warren Tornado Klein]] as the Incredibly Strung Out Band, but their collaboration never resulted in a record. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.marinij.com/2023/10/19/singer-songwriter-peter-case-returns-to-marin-from-a-million-miles-away/| title=Singer-songwriter Peter Case returns to Marin from 'A Million Miles Away' | date=October 19, 2023 |publisher=Marin.com|accessdate=2023-12-29}}</ref>