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The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star [VHS]

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The is the best parody of the music business. Spinal Tap was true, but kind of depressing - a crap band in decay. This is the opposite - a young band on the way up.

Filled with cliches of the business - stealing your gear back from the manager who reckons you owe him money, starting a fight in the band room to impress the potential manager, the record company trying to sack everyone 'except the songwriters and the one with the big tits', jamming Black Night in a recording studio in an ancient castle... It's all there. And it's so effing funny.

If ever a series cried out to be released on DVD, this is it! Should have been bigger than Spinal Tap & so much more a celebration of music and the c**p you have to go through to make it.

And great songs, to boot. This is a classic, lobby to get it released on DVD... please.


Record Company Exec: You told me he was the best bass player in Scotland.

Singer (under his breath): He's not even the best bass player in our band...

If you're a fan of Simone Lahbib from her great performance as Helen Stewart in "Bad Girls" then this is a must-see, and I'll guarantee you've never seen her like this.

The title says it all. A scottish kid gets a band together and they do what they have to do to make it. It's a farce. It's highly satiric. It's very scottish. It won a major scots tv award.

There are at least 4 cameos by major rock stars.

The male lead went on to play "David Copperfield" of all things in a major adaptation the very next year (in which young David was played by the nascent yet-to-be Harry Potter) and the female lead, the delicious Ms. Lahbib went on to give one of the great complex dramatic and simply unforgettable performances in british tv history as the 'straight' gov'ner of a women's prison who falls romantically in love with one of her inmates.

Seeing both actors in this silly, but entertaining, bit of fluff you'd never expect their next gigs to go the way they did.

It's cute.

And the tag-line, a song by Dr. Hook, will really make you smile if you're a Simone fan. :)