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In this tale of sex, violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, "Cadillac Records" follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Keywords: 1950s, african-american, african-american-music, arson, band, bankruptcy, bathtub, bigotry, billboard-magazine, blues-music
If you take the ride, you must pay the price.
Follow the beat to its source.
Willie Dixon: [as a narrator] When you lose that cat that gave you the sound that nobody else could, it hurts. Hurts more than losing your woman.
[from trailer]::Leonard Chess: That's a record!
Mick Jagger: [From trailer] Mr. Waters. We're big fans. We named our band after one of your songs.::Muddy Waters: Yeah?::Mick Jagger: Rolling Stone.
Etta James: Don't be looking at me like I ain't got no draws on.
Muddy Waters: You alright? Damn it.::Little Walter: I had no business being that pretty anyway.
Muddy Waters: You and me not gonna wake up every morning and get everything we want. Mostly we got to take what come. And half the time, that's gonna be a bunch of bullshit.
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On his way to a Make Poverty History gig in Scotland, Bob Geldof is accidentally stranded by an incompetent chauffeur in a run-down motel in Northern England. To his horror, he discovers a lookalike contest is taking place, and no-one will believe he is the real Bob Geldof. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, he discovers he may not be the only Bob Geldof in the room...
Keywords: character-name-in-title, elvis-presley, impersonation, look-alike, madonna, michael-jackson, mick-jagger, mother-teresa, osama-bin-laden, pope-john-paul-ii
Sir. Saint. Sinner.
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'Achim Bornhak' (qv)'s movie focuses on the restless life of 'Uschi Obermaier' (qv), the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation...
Keywords: bare-breasts, based-on-true-story, drugs, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, female-pubic-hair, male-frontal-nudity, male-genitalia, orange-panties, panties
[first lines]::Uschi Obermaier: In Paris that summer, the students wrote "Power to the imagination" on the walls. In San Francisco they danced in the streets, and fought for what had become their way of life. And I was at home in Sendling, a suburb of Munich. I felt I died a slow and never-ending death that day. The only thing that kept me alive was the music. Without that, I would have died. Or worse, I would have turned into my parents. But music alone wouldn't get me out of Senling. That much was clear to me. What I needed was a man. The wilder, the better.
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Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones, that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones, particularly Keith Richards, that show they had a great respect for him and tried to bring him back into the band as he drifted away. Mixed into the destruction of Jones is a common builder, Frank Thorogood, who is given the unenviable task of trying to please Jones by rebuilding his estate and to watch him per Jones' manager's instructions. Thorogood's life is so far removed from all of the sex and drugs that he sees, that he envies and desires the tawdry life as well, but never quite fits in. Unfortunately, at least according to this film and according to a supposed death bed confessional of Thorogood in 1993, it led to Thorogood's murder of Jones in a swimming pool "accident".
Keywords: 1960s, accountant, acid-the-drug, american-flag, anita-pallenberg, antichrist, archive-footage, asthma, attempt-to-save-life, band
the wild and wicked world of Brian Jones
Before Jimi and Janis there was Brian. The Original Rolling Stone.
Brian Jones: Thanks for making a marytr of me. If it wasn't for you i'd still be alive and, no one would care.::Tom Keylock: You know that isn't true. It was you screwing with Frank's head what did it, because you had nothing better to do. But you did know her...::Brian Jones: Anita.::Tom Keylock: You just had to go and screw it up, didn't ya? Your problem is, you were never happy - even Frank was happy.::Brian Jones: You're wrong you know Tom. I was happy, somewhere in the middle there. The thing with happiness was... It was boring.
Brian Jones: Thanks for making a marytr of me. If it wasn't for you I'd still be alive and, no one would care.::Tom Keylock: You know that isn't true. It was you screwing with Frank's head what did it, because you had nothing better to do. But you did know her...::Brian Jones: Anita.::Tom Keylock: You just had to go and screw it up, didn't ya? Your problem is, you were never happy - even Frank was happy.::Brian Jones: You're wrong you know Tom. I was happy, somewhere in the middle there. The thing with happiness was... It was boring.
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A satirical glimpse at the early 21st century in which impressionists Phil Cornwell and John Sessions send up celebrity culture, including: Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, who run a corner shop; Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, who rub shoulders in a leafy lane in suburbia; and David Bowie, who has his underpants starched and ironed by an uptight cockney charlady named Mrs. Huggett. Megastars come and go, but nothing escapes the watchful eye of their long-suffering neighbor, Michael Caine.
Keywords: alternative-comedy, madonna, mick-jagger, place-name-in-title, street-in-title
Linda McCartney: Mick Jagger said he'd never have his old lady on stage.::Paul McCartney: Yeah, well screw him!::Linda McCartney: I already have.
It's a marathon, not a sprint
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Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the many serious documentaries made about the Beatles.
Keywords: fake-documentary, fictional-band, imaginary-band, joke, mock-documentary, mockumentary, musical-number, musician, parody, rock-music
Comedy spoof of Beatlemania from Monty Python's Eric Idle...
The Rutles, a living legend that will live long after other living legends have died.
All You Need Is Cash
Stanley J. Krammerhead: Listen, looking at it very simply musicology and ethnically, the Rutles were essentially imperical malengistes of a rhythmically radical yet verbally passé and temporally transcended lyrically content welded with historically innovative melodical material transposed and transmogrified by the angst of the Rutland ethic experience which elevated them from essentially alpha exponents of in essence merely beta potential harmonic material into the prime cultural exponents of Aeolian cadencic comic stanza form
[answers to reporter's question, "What's your ambition?"]::Barry Wom: I'd like to be a hairdresser. Or two. I'd like to be two hairdressers.::Ron Nasty: [sullenly] I'd like to own a squadron of tanks.::Dirk McQuickly: What Ron and I'll do is probably to write some songs, you know, and sell them to people.
[on manager Leggy Mountbatten's discovery of the Rutles]::Iris Mountbatten: Well, he told me that he'd been to see these young men in a dark cellar.::Narrator: Yes.::Iris Mountbatten: He was always very interested in young men.::Narrator: Oh, yes.::Iris Mountbatten: Youth clubs, Boy Scouts, that sort of thing.::Narrator: Yes.::Iris Mountbatten: But these, he said, were different.::Narrator: In what way?::Iris Mountbatten: Their hair, and... their presence... and their music...::Narrator: He liked it?::Iris Mountbatten: No, he hated it.::Narrator: What did he like?::Iris Mountbatten: Well, em... the trousers.::Narrator: What about their trousers?::Iris Mountbatten: Well, they were, eh, they were very, em... tight.
Reporter: It must have been a great honor, meeting the queen.::Ron Nasty: Yes, it must have been.::Reporter: What did she ask you?::Barry Wom: She asked us who we were. And then to get out.::Reporter: What did you say?::Dirk McQuickly: [pointing at Ron Nasty] I said I was him.
[on manager Leggy Mountbatten's emigration to Australia]::Narrator: It was a bombshell for the Rutles. They were shocked... and stunned.::Dirk McQuickly: Well, we're shocked.::Ron Nasty: Yeah, shocked.::Barry Wom: Shocked.::Dirk McQuickly: And stunned.::Ron Nasty: Yeah, stunned.::Barry Wom: Very stunned.::Reporter: Did Arthur Sultan have any words of encouragement for you?::Ron Nasty: No.::Dirk McQuickly: Well, yeah.::Ron Nasty: Well, yeah and no... he said, uh, that it took all sorts to make a world, and that we shouldn't worry unduly about where he'd gone.::Dirk McQuickly: You know, we shouldn't become covered with grief at thoughts of Australia, because ...::Ron Nasty: He did say that we could still keep in touch with him by tapping the table.::Dirk McQuickly: And postcards.::Ron Nasty: Yeah.::Barry Wom: Very stunned.
[Ron Nasty and wife Chastity are giving a press conference in Nasty's shower]::Ron Nasty: We're doing this for peace, and basically to show that the world is, you know, going astray in its thinking.::Reporter: What are you doing?::Ron Nasty: We're getting wet. In a shower. Because, basically, we talked it over, Chastity and myself, and we came to the conclusion that civilization is nothing more than an effective sewage system. And so by the use of plumbing we hope to demonstrate this to the world.
Narrator: Mick, why do you think the Rutles broke up?::Mick Jagger: Why do I think they did? Why did the Rutles break up? Women. Just women. Getting in the way. Cherchez la femme, you know.::Narrator: Do you think they'll ever get back together again?::Mick Jagger: I hope not.
Narrator: Stig, meanwhile, had hidden in the background so much that in 1969, a rumor went around that he was dead. He was supposed to have been killed in a flash fire at a waterbed shop and replaced by a plastic and wax replica from Madame Tusseaud's. Several so-called "facts" helped the emergence of this rumor. One: he never said anything publicly. Even as the "quiet one," he'd not said a word since 1966. Two: on the cover of their latest album, "Shabby Road," he is wearing no trousers, an Italian way of indicating death. Three: Nasty supposedly sings "I buried Stig" on "I Am The Waitress." In fact, he sings, "E burres stigano," which is very bad Spanish for "Have you a water buffalo?" Four: On the cover of the "Sergeant Rutter" album, Stig is leaning in the exact position of a dying Yeti, from the Rutland Book of the Dead. Five: If you sing the title of "Sergeant Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" backwards, it's supposed to sound very like "Stig has been dead for ages, honestly." In fact, it sounds uncannily like "Dnab Bulc Ylno S'rettur Tnaegres." Palpable nonsense.
Narrator: In the midst of all this public bickering, "Let it Rot" was released as a film, an album, and a lawsuit. In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty, and Barry; Barry sued Dirk, Nasty, and Stig; Nasty sued Barry, Dirk, and Stig; and Stig sued himself accidentally. It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers, but for the Rutles, live on a London rooftop, it was the beginning of the end.
Narrator: And you turned down the Rutles.::Brian Thigh: Yeah, yeah.::[beat]::Narrator: What's it like being an asshole?
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. Allmusic has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of The Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Rolling Stones.
Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Jagger was born into a middle class family at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was raised to follow in his father's career path.