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Post by diskojoe on Mar 31, 2021 13:29:42 GMT
I picked up a DVD copy of Jailhouse Rock @ my local thrift store last week. I always wanted to see it, which I did this past weekend. The character that Elvis portrayed was rough around the edges. In fact he even kills someone w/his bare hands to start the movie, which sends him to the can. When he gets out he begins a singing career & gets rejected by a big record company. When he finds out that the said company stole his song to give to another singer, he comes back & beats up the head of the record company! He then decides to start his own record company w/his gal pal. Does this make Elvis the proto-Martin? Anyway, it was a good movie, especially w/the famous choreographed scene of the title song.
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ageingted
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Post by ageingted on Apr 2, 2021 21:16:55 GMT
14 months for manslaughter? Those were the days. Martin may disdain the music industry but I doubt he would hurt a fly, so that's a no-go on the proto!
Did you ever see the Slade movie "Slade In Flame"? I haven't - probably hard to get in the US. Apparently shows the underbelly of the music biz.
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Post by diskojoe on Apr 2, 2021 22:14:57 GMT
I have seen Slade in Flame & it did come out here in the States in the 2000s by Shout! Factory. I got my copy for $3.99 @ my local Newbury Comics (Boston-based pop culture store chain). It's a pretty decent movie which is basically about a band that started at the bottom went to the top & went back down again. It had Tom Conti of Local Hero fame & Ken Colley, who not only later starred in Ray Davies' Return to Waterloo, but also appeared in one of the Star Wars movies. The thing about Slade in Flame is that there is none of the expected farce. It's a relatively serious movie, which probably disappointed Slade's fans. The band themselves were pretty decent. Noddy Holder speaks just like he sings & the drummer impressed me. It also had a great scene involving one of the pirate radio stations which was more realistic than the whole of The Ship That Rocked.
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