Welcome to My Nightmare

Alice Cooper and the Muppets on The Muppet Show (1978).

Who Killed Bambi?

This song must be played at my funeral as loud as possible.
Murder murder murder
Someone should be angry
The crime of the century
Who shot little Bambi
Never trust a hippie
'Cause I love punky Bambi
I'll kill to find the killer
In that rotten roll army
All the spikey punkers
Believers in the ruins
With one big shout
They all cry out
Who killed Bambi?


Tenpole Tudor, The Sex Pistols & cast in The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (1980).

Sweet Transvestite

Sweet Transvestite from memo alo on Vimeo.

Tim Curry and cast in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

House of Fun

Madness & cast in The Young Ones episode Boring (1982).

It's Getting Harder All The Time

The Mindbenders, Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson and cast in To Sir, With Love (1967).

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

The Beatles in Yellow Submarine (1968).

Acid Queen

Tina Turner, Roger Daltrey & cast in Tommy (1975).

Ace of Spades

Motörhead performing Ace of Spades on the Young Ones (1984) The Young Ones incorporated musical numbers into the show in a very cool way, so that it was part of the story. The show introduced me to Motorhead & the Damned! How about that?

Lust For Life

Musicals are one thing, but the way they used music in the 94 minute long advertisement for being a Scottish f*ck up called Trainspotting was very MUSICAL. As in, the soundtrack told the story. The movie would be a very different movie without the music. It was a great soundtrack as well, i listened to it many times. The book is quite good too. Iggy & the Stooges performing Lust for Life from the movie Trainspotting (1996)

I Love Being a Boy

The Banana Splits on the Banana Splits (1969)

Angry Inch (Long Story Short)

John Cameron Mitchell & Miriam Shor in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, (2001).

Steph and I might never have seen this if it weren't for a group of London tour bus drivers we drank with in a pub one night.

Gimme Some Money

Michael McKean, Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer in This is Spinal Tap (1984)

School's Out

Alice Cooper & the Muppets gang on the Muppet Show (1978) The Muppet Show introduced me to Alice Cooper & insured his status as cool in my book. This is a great argument for sitting on the fence between shock & show business, Alice Cooper keeps it all just nice enough to be able to go on a show that has a 50% kids audience like the Muppet Show, but is also creepy & rock & roll enough to be cool. You couldn't say that about someone like Marilyn Manson who just goes too far, even though he's probably more commercial than Alice Cooper was (weird!).

Rock & Roll All Nite

Kiss in Kiss Meet the Phantom of the Park (1978) One of the greatest Bubblegum groups of all time, the kids love 'em, good clean family fun.

Nowhere Man

The Beatles & a terrifying transvestite creature in Yellow Submarine (1968)

The Time Warp

Richard O'Brien & Cast from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Almost ruined by the cult movie phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture show is a great capsulization of Rock & Roll with a Glam focus disguised as a shlocko horror movie. It's a fantastic piece of work, & it's a shame about its following. Richard O'Brien as the hunchback Riff Raff is also fantastic in the 80s BBC series Robin of Sherwood, which if you haven't seen, you HAVE to.

Pinball Wizard

Elton John & the Who in Tommy (1975)
Not a big fan of Elton John, but gotta love him as this glam skinhead character with giant Doc Martens. I wish i had those.