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Yep it's time to put right some of those rock n roll myths that have circulated for years & the violetz are happy to dispel the rumours & give you the whole truth about rock n roll. For all of you sad old gits who love trivia and love to bore the pants off your boozing partners in crime, this is the part of the site you have been waiting for. Trivia 1 - first hits for artists Trivia 2 - songs and bands about numbers Trivia 3 - songs about actors & fans & places Trivia 4 - what bands did for a living / bands named after animals Trivia 5 - misheard lyrics Trivia 6 - true or false rock facts Trivia 7 - Fictional Bands - made up bands, pseudonyms, alter egos, Trivia 8 - Songs & Bands about colours Rock trivia 7 is about those Bands from record, TV, Video, DVD who used nom de plumes etc Autobahn
– film - Kraftwerk spoof band in The Big Lebowski - some priests in an episode
of Father Ted also did a splendid Kraftwerk impersonation once Bad News –
TV - Comic Strip
heavy metal spoof band featuring Vim Fuego, Spider Webb, Den Dennis and Colin
Griggson - they actually played at Reading and got canned off Barking
Spiders – Record – Alias for Aussie band Cold Chisel Barry Jive
& The Uptown Five – film
- originally Sonic Death Monkey and nearly called Kathleen Turner Overdrive.
Featured in High Fidelity as did The Kinky Wizards Benny &
The Jets – record
- legendary band from an Elton John song Breaking
Glass – film -
band from film of same name featuring singer Hazel O'Connor and sax player
Jonathan Pryce Carl &
The Passions – record
- early name of the Beach Boys which they later resurrected for an album title Creme Brulee
– TV - 70s band
featured in League Of Gentlemen Crucial
Taunt – film -
terrible 80s style band that Wayne's girlfriend plays bass for in the Wayne's
World films Dingo Ate My
Baby – TV - band
featured in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Oz the werewolf played bass for them Disaster
Area – radio book
& TV - from Douglas Adams' The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe - the
best place to hear them is from a concrete bunker 37 miles from the stage Earl Vince
& The Valiants – record
- (early) Fleetwood Mac pseudonym used for a b side track called Someone's Gonna
Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight Figrin
D'an and the Modal Nodes – film - that weird band playing in a bar in the
original Star Wars film Flame – film
-Slade as they appeared in the film Slade In Flame Frozen Gold
– book - Ian
Banks' invented band for his novel Espedair Street Glen Ponder
and Chalet – TV
Alan Partridge's house band - Aha! Heaven
17 – book - & film -
originally the name of a fictional band in A Clockwork Orange as were The Blow
Goes, Comic Strips, The Mixers, The Sharks, The Humpers, The Legend, Bread
Brothers, Johnny Zhivago, Cyclops and Goggly Gogol Jim
MacClaine & The Stray Cats – Film - David Essex's band in Stardust with
Keith moon , dave edmunds. Jocks Wa-Hey
– TV - Glasgow band featured in the appalling TV show The Young Person's Guide
To Being A Rock Star Josie &
The Pussycats – film
- all-girl group from film of same name Keelhaul –
computer game-
feature in Escape From Monkey Island computer game Kipper – film
- band featuring Robin Asquith and Duffy out of Please Sir in an odd afro wig in
the film Confessions Of A Pop Performer Maxwell
Demon & The Venus In Furs – film
- Brian Slade's creation in Velvet Goldmine, which also featured the Iggy Pop-esque
Curt Wild
& The Wylde Ratttz – Mayhem – TV
- punk rock band featured in an episode of Quincy - hooray! Naz
Nomad & The Nightmares -
Record - The Damned pseudonym for their 60s style album Give Daddy The
Knife Cindy Otis
Day & The Knights – film - band featured in the film Animal House PJ And
Duncan - record/TV -
Ant and Dec's characters in the kids TV show Byker Grove. they had a couple of
hits under that name apparently Rock
Follies – TV – Record – 1970’s show featuring Julie covington Ruben &
The Jets – record
- Frank Zappa and The Mothers doo-wop spin-off Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – record - The Beatles, of course. John Lennon mentions Charles Hawtrey & The Deaf-Aids from the roof of Apple on the Let It Be album. There was an awful film made of the Sgt. Pepper album featuring the Bee Gees etc. Todd Rundgren's Utopia made a fine if slightly odd spoof Beatles album called Deface The Music, and of course we can't forget... Shelley Maze
- TV - 70's tv show featuring charlotte cornwall Smeg
& The Heads – TV - band once featured in Red Dwarf Soggy Bottom
Boys – film - Bluegrass band in Brother Where are't Thou Spinal Tap – film - David St Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, Derek Smalls Tufnel-St. Hubbins Group plus their support act The Folksmen (who were played by the same actors). SPOTS – live
- pseudonym for The Sex Pistols (Sex Pistols On Tour) when they kept getting
banned everywhere Stillwater
– film - from the film Almost Famous Strange
Fruit – film -
band from the excellent film Still Crazy. Main members were Jimmy Nail, Stephen
Rea, Bruce Robinson, Timothy Spall and Bill Nighy Stryker – TV
- Armstrong & Miller's Scandinavian rock spoof band Sweet Sue
And Her Society Syncopators – film
- the jazz band in the film Some Like It Hot featuring singer Sugar Kane (played
by Marilyn Monroe) plus Josephine and Daphne (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) The
Archies – TV - & record - cartoon band created by Don Kirshner when he
started losing control of The Monkees The Banana
Splits – TV -
Fleegle, Dropper, Snorky and Bingo "na-na-na, na-nana-na" The BC-52s
– film - the B-52s
as they appeared in the film of The Flintstones The Be
Sharps – TV -
barbershop quartet in The Simpsons featuring Homer Simpson, Apu, Principal
Skinner and Barney Gumbel, who replaced Police Chief Wiggam The Black
Knight – record -
Cliff Richard (eek!) used this pseudonym for disco track The Blues
Brothers – film -
Jake and Elwood. Other bands featured in the film were: Murph And The Magictones
and The Good Ol' Boys The Boyds
– TV - puppet
birds that sang the theme tune on H R Pufnstuf The Carrie
Nations – film -
all-female band featured in the film Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls The
Commitments – film
- r'n'b band from Irish film of same name some members were previously in a band
called And And And The
Corduroys, Ye Gods – TV
Bands led by Eric Daley - a Peter Cook invention from an interview on Clive
Anderson Talks Back. Other band members included Jez, Reg and eight-year-old
Blind Tony Tin Tin. Eric retired to create his own anchovy farm The Dukes Of
Stratosphear - XTC alter
egos for their psychedelic homage albums. They also recorded under the names The
Three Wise Men, Terry & The Lovemen, The Colonel and Arch
Marble & The Hallmarks The Electrocutes – film - They're really the Donnas in the Mellisa Joan Hart film Drive Me Crazy The fabulous
stains - film - Punk film starring Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Ray Winston, Paul
simonon The
Flowerbuds – film
- Played at the fantastic pop festival at the end of Carry On Camping The Glimmer
Twins – record -
Mick and Keef from the Rolling Stones have used this pseudonym for production
duties - The Stones also used the name Nanker Phelge (named after a gurning face
they used to make to each other) when the whole band composed tracks together The Herman
Rodriguez Four – TV
- one of several bands mentioned or featured in Monty Python, others include:
Arthur Ewing & His Musical Mice, The Bolton Choral Society, The Rachel
Toovey Bicycle Choir, The Hunlets, Jackie Charlton & The Tonettes... The Little
Ladies – TV -
Julie Covington, Rula Lenska and Charlotte Cornwall as all girl rock band in the
very poor 1970s ITV show Rock Follies The Lorells
– TV - appeared in
a Dr Who adventure where the doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy at this time) and
his assistant (Bonnie Langford, ugh) visit a 1950s holiday camp The
Majestics – TV -
from BBC show Tutti Frutti that featured 1950s Scottish rock band reforming in
the 1980s. Starred Robbie Coltrane and Richard 'I don't believe it' Wilson The Metal
Gurus – live -
Pseudonym of The Mission when they Glam it up The Monkees
– TV - &
record - originally very much a manufactured group formed by Don Kirshner -
their early records were mostly played by session men, but they gradually
started to take over control until they were writing and playing all their own
stuff The
Muppet Show Band/Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem – TV - The Electric Mayhem
band appeared in The Muppet Movie. The house band in the TV show featured Janis,
Floyd and is worth a mention for Animal, one of the finest drummers in the
history of music and role model for many The Muswell
Hillbillies – record
- The Kinks as they appeared on the album of that name The Nobs –
live - when Led
Zeppelin played in Denmark they had to change their name to The Nobs for a
concert as Count Evan von Zeppelin objected to the use of his family name on a
German tour The
Partridge Family – TV
- horrible horrible family band featured in US TV show of same name. Featured
David Cassidy as the sexily named Keith The
Pinheads – film -
Marty McFly's band in Back To The Future, which also featured Marvin Berry &
The Starlighters The
Rutles – TV - Stig, Barry, Ron and Dirk who were also Sgt. Rutter's Darts Club
Band other bands mentioned or featured in Rutland Weekend Television include Les
Garcons De La Plage, Punk Floyd, Arthur Hodgson & The Kneecaps, The Wretched
Admiral Sphincter, The Grunties, Red Buttocks, The Hot Nadgers (or Nudges?) ,
Vomit, Mantra Robinson, The Splint, Toad The Wet Sprocket, (there was later,
coincidentally a band of this name), The Machismo Brothers, also bluesmen
Ruttling Orange Peel and Blind Lemon Pie The
Turds – magazine
- Private Eye's punk creation featuring singer Spiggy Topes the
Woolpackers - record/TV
- Some of the cast of Emmerdale Farm used this name when they made a country
record together Timmy! &
The Lords Of The Underworld – TV
- from South Park which also featured Fingerbang Tinker's
Rucksack – TV -
folk-singing creation of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer as were the magnificent
Mulligan And O'Hare Willie &
The Poor Boys – record
- album title and alter-ego of Creedence Clearwater Revival Wyld
Stallyns – film - Bill and Ted's heavy metal band in Bill And Ted's Big
Adventure Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars – record - David Bowie
You have been warned that their is loads more to follow !!!!!! Email: Violetz@Rock.com (Click link) Web Design by the Geezer This page was last updated on 02/03/06.
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