Later this year, cinemagoers will have the opportunity to watch Meryl Streep play Ricki Rendazzo, the ageing singer and guitarist with Ricki And The Flash, in Jonathan Demme's latest film. The Flash are the latest in a long line of fictional bands to appear in films. Accordingly, after the trailer ...
4: THE LENINGRAD COWBOYS, various
Ostensibly the creation of film director Aki Kaurismäki and two members of Finnish rock band Sleepy Sleepers, the Leningrad Cowboys and their extraordinary hair have taken on a life of their own beyond the three films directed by Kaurismäki. There are eight studio albums, no less, including last year’s Bueva Vodka Social Club, and they’ve become something of a Finnish institution.
5: WYLD STALLYNS, Bill & Ted
The only band on our list to feature in their ‘classic’ line-up two medieval princesses, a pair of robots and – on bass – Death himself.
6: CITIZEN DICK, Singles
More Cameron Crowe. This time, its grunge era shenanigans with assorted members of Pearl Jam as Matt Dillon’s group, Citizen Dick, with lyrics from Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-j31YoEeRU
7: THE ONEDERS, That Thing You Do
Personal project from Tom Hanks – his only film as writer and director – about a one-hit wonder group it in the early Sixties. The band’s one hit – “That Thing You Do” – was written by Adam Schlesinger, bassist for Fountains Of Wayne.