Favorite Movies With Musicians

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I watched the movie scrooged earlier and got me thinking about musicians or singers appearing in movies
So what’s some of your guys favorite movies where a musician either stars or makes a cameo
Or just movies with musicians you have seen
including movies with music as a part of the plot and without anything to do with music

Scrooged - David johansen (New York dolls) as cabby and ghost of Christmas present

Rockula- Bo Diddly- blues guitarist in bar and in rockulas band

Cole miners daughter- Levon Helm - as Ted Webb Loretta Lynn’s father

Crossroads- Steve vai - satan in guitar duel

And of course

Blues Brothers- Steve cropper-himself
Donald “duck” Dunn- himself
Matt “guitar” Murphy- himself
Ray Charles- owner of rays music store
John Lee hooker - blues artist in street
Aretha Franklin- Matt’s wife
Cab Calloway-Mc/brothers mentor

 

[Torren61]

"Let It Be"

 

[getbent]

electra glide in blue
chicago plays bikers believably.

vanishing point
delaney and bonnie are awesome

 

[thunderbyrd]

Cabaret - cause each and every one is a wirgen!

I think I will watch Cabaret tonight, with a vodka kicker.

 

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Oh I forgot a good one
Two lane blacktop- Dennis Wilson

 

[dlew919]

Blues brothers 2000: b b king as Malvern gasperone. Who later turns up as the head of the Louisiana gator boys.


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[richiek65]

Mystery Train, Screamin' Jay Hawkins playing a motel night clerk.. Sheer genius

 

[Chanan]

I always loved the springsteen scene in high fidelity

 

[blowtorch]

All Elvis movies. Obviously

Also these

 

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All Elvis movies. Obviously

Also these

Can’t believe I forgot these I like the one where he is a pilot that ends up at the worlds fair in Seattle

There’s a bunch of surf movies from the 60s with popular bands of the time in them although they aren’t really acting in them
There’s a pretty good one with dick dale playing in it

 

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Jerry reed - Smokey and the bandit

Dang I forgot a bunch of good ones

 

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All Elvis movies. Obviously

Also these

Yesss the KISS movie!

There’s a couple scenes in that where they picked the absolute worst body doubles and is very obvious it’s not certain members of the band

 

[bluzkat]

Oh I forgot a good one
Two lane blacktop- Dennis Wilson

James Taylor was also in that movie.

How about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson.

One of my favorite westerns... "Keep the change Bob."

 

[blowtorch]

Joan Jett in her badass prime

 

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James Taylor was also in that movie.

How about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson.

One of my favorite westerns... "Keep the change Bob."

Ah ha
That reminds me
I can’t think of the name of the movie without looking it up but Mick Jagger was in a western esq movie in the 70s

 

[RodeoTex]

Jeff Beck in a bar band scene in Twins always seemed awkward to me.

 

[richiek65]

Ah ha
That reminds me
I can’t think of the name of the movie without looking it up but Mick Jagger was in a western esq movie in the 70s

Was it Ned Kelly? About a bushranger in Australia

 

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Was it Ned Kelly? About a bushranger in Australia

Yes that’s the one

 

[Steve 78]

And of course

Blues Brothers- Steve cropper-himself
Donald “duck” Dunn- himself
Matt “guitar” Murphy- himself
Ray Charles- owner of rays music store
John Lee hooker - blues artist in street
Aretha Franklin- Matt’s wife
Cab Calloway-Mc/brothers mentor

... and James Brown as the Reverend Cleophus.

When I was younger I went through a Bruce McDonald phase. Highway 61 has Jello Biafra. Roadkill has Joey Ramone. Speaking of which, Rock n Roll Highschool, of course.

Dogma - Alanis Morrisette (as God!)
Heat - Henry Rollins
Dogs in Space - Michael Hutchence (and I think the members of the original band it was based on have cameos)
Wayne's World movies - Aerosmith, Alice Cooper.
Back to the Beach - Dick Dale.
I can think of a few other interesting roles/cameos (Roland Howard in Queen of the Damned, Henry Rollins in Johnny Mnemonic, Migger Jagger in Freejack, Lyle Lovett in The Opposite of Sex, Dwight Yokam in Bandidas, Eminem in 8 Mile...these aren't my favourite movies but I did enjoy them on some level).