Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.
it’s not rebellion unless there’s an old curmudgeon scolding them. It’s dialectical
Unfortunately the left doesn’t have a monopoly on the concept of rebellion. Plenty of young people end up right wing with old leftists scolding them