David Hemmings stars as the lead in a light-hearted look at the new teen revelation of bands starting up and wanting to taste stardom. You know, the days BEFORE X-Factor and Britain/America's Got Talent, where the realities of trying to get your foot in the door in the music industry involved gigging in backwaters in your beaten-up old van etc., were the norm, before today's 'kids' think they can get automatic stardom themselves via the social media and the erstwhile progs I mentioned. Dave and chums (including a young Steve 'Small Faces' Marriott and the upcoming, but not-really-made-it-big, 'Heinz'(Burt))form a band, have the odd-parent not believing in them, all along holding down the day-job (they're all GPO delivery bike riders, before the minimum waged Eastern Europeans took over). They try their best to get, rather cheesily, contacts by sticking their necks out as best they can by freak introductions with studios bosses and record producers, etc., etc. Nice, fair acting of excitable kids trying to make it big, having to say to 'Dad' : 'We can make it' etc, when 'Dad' would rather promise 'getting Hemmings a 'proper job' at his Hotel!
I have to say, that although many of today's 'kids' would laugh at how awful the music is, this really lets you into a world as it was THEN and in that ilk, it's an eye-opener, or something we had forgotten.
This could, in these days of 'kids' wanting the quick avenue to celeb status, be remade.
As I say, take it for what it is, as one reviewer says a 'time- capsule' and you'll not really want to judge it. Capture and take in its innocence and you'll love the way it comes across, love its atmosphere etc! Got to be seen. Somewhat similar and 'revisited' with Hemmings playing the same character in 'Be my Guest' (Just two years later) where he creates angst with the chums in his band. Worth your time on that wet Saturday or Sunday afternoon!
I have to say, that although many of today's 'kids' would laugh at how awful the music is, this really lets you into a world as it was THEN and in that ilk, it's an eye-opener, or something we had forgotten.
This could, in these days of 'kids' wanting the quick avenue to celeb status, be remade.
As I say, take it for what it is, as one reviewer says a 'time- capsule' and you'll not really want to judge it. Capture and take in its innocence and you'll love the way it comes across, love its atmosphere etc! Got to be seen. Somewhat similar and 'revisited' with Hemmings playing the same character in 'Be my Guest' (Just two years later) where he creates angst with the chums in his band. Worth your time on that wet Saturday or Sunday afternoon!