Musicians who deserve their own movies

Musicians who deserve their own movies

It seems that the musical biopic has really been picking up steam in recent years. From Bob Dylan to the famous B.I.G. fugue at N.W.A. to the Queen, it seems that there is no iconic musician whose rise to fame was not interesting enough to be dramatized by Hollywood. It's a bit logical. It's much easier to write a script when 90 percent of the story is already presented to you, and perhaps more than any other variety of celebrities, the life and relationships of rock stars have always been a source of fascination for regular people, non-Rock Star People.

Consider, however, that some of the most interesting stories in the annals of music history have not yet received widescreen treatment. If all of Hollywood's big-time writers are reading this, we've done half of your work for you by presenting this handy list of musicians who really need to get their own biopics. You are welcome-extravagant gift baskets will be accepted as Thank you.

1 Kings from Queens: The Run-D. M.C. history

Before they became perhaps the most important figures of rap music, Joseph Simmons, Daryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell were just a group of Queens dudes who were in love with New York's nascent hip-hop scene. Simmons and McDaniels had been familiar since kindergarten, but were brought closer by their mutual love of rhyme and the fact that McDaniels had turned up. Resolved to form a band, they thought they would call themselves two dynamic - until Simmons' older brother, Russell, who had agreed to manage them, put a fork in this idea. Speaking with The New York Times, McDaniels said, "He called and said, 'you're going to be Run-D., Mr.C.' he sounded like the worst name in the world.We said," You ruin us. ""

It turned out not to be correct. Recruiting well-known queens, DJ Mizell, the trio flanked a trail with their first three records that changed Forever rap. Their biopic could have a lot of fun focusing on all the seemingly career-killing choices that distinguish them. They avoided blazing, Disco-y suit in favor of jeans and leather jackets, stripped of their music to practically nothing but drums and screamed vocals, and had the nerve to employ rock elements before literally someone another one of the kind. There was enough drugs, drinking and conflict during their heyday to add a second-act drama, a late-career turn to religion for Simmons-the good things are all there. Just for Pete's sake, do not let Aerosmith play.

2 Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath

Music pioneers always make good biopic feed, and you can not pioneer much harder than Black Sabbath did. Formed in 1968 as the Polka Tulk Blues Band (no, really) boys changed their nicknames to a little less ridiculous land, and were Blues-ing around Birmingham when fate intervened. Guitarist Tony Iommi suffered an industrial accident that dismissed the fingers of his fretted hand, an end-of-career injury for any guitarist, but he compensated by tuning his ax down a half-step to provide a little limp, causing a sound person had quite heard before. Then, singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler wrote a black, scary tune titled "Black Sabbath" -and suddenly, Heavy Metal kicks (hard) into the womb.

The group will continue to file the founding documents of metal while baffling the critics, raging anyone with religious tendencies, and doing just about all the drugs. There is almost too much material for a biopic here; The feats of Osbourne alone are legendary, sniffing ants to bite heads off things to be usually a complete fool. His departure from the group for a brilliant solo career, with the tragic death of his guitarist Randy Rhoads, could provide strong dramatic beats, and the mandate of singer Ronnie James Dio in Sabbath deserves the exam as well (more, you know you're dying to see who they had thrown into this role). Osbourne's triumphant return to the 1997 Ozzfest group could stop everything. We do not need a dramatization of the years of Ozzy's reality.

3 Poetry: the story of Boogie Down productions

Lawrence "Kris" Parker, better known as KRS-One, is not exactly a household name-unless your household is really in rap. Among the hip-hoppers, it's an absolute legend. Homeless at age 16, he started around New York as a Graffiti artist before hooking up with Scott Sterling-a social worker in a men's shelter-to train Boogie Down productions, a band that would almost immediately kick off. of one of the biggest oxen in the history of rap. The "Bridge Wars" between BDP and Queens collective Juice team firmly established KRS as a rapper you really do not want to mess with, but the rise of the group was tainted by the tragic murder of Sterling shortly after the release of the first Criminal Minded album.

Regardless of the fact that it actually looks like an oppressed history of scrap that someone has done, the part of the narrative bridge wars alone would make for a thread absolutely fascinating. Parker was also known for casually inventing new styles of rhymes, such as his "hip-hop reggae" style, or the ultra-rhythmic machine bursting with lyrics on the open-minded criminal track "Poetry" - which are still influential today, and he regrouped from Sterling's death to Drop 1987 is by all means necessary, a classic cold-stone. It would be a difficult part to launch. Parker's voice and appearance are quite singular, and at his most agile, very few people can rap like him. But it is a story that begs to dramatize, if only to remind the world of that time that the hottest team in New York was destroyed by a homeless.

4 Nothing else matters

The raucous, alcohol-soaked early years of famous bands always make for good biopic material, and not many groups were more tempered alcoholic and hoarse as Metallica, who earned the nickname "Alcoholica" before most of the world knew even who were the musicians. They invented Thrash metal as lesados, perhaps abandoning the most aggressive musical style that we have seen on the face of the world, and somehow transformed into the largest group on earth. On the way, there were a lot of dramatic beats-because, as the documentary kind of a monster showed us, the personalities in the band tend towards the irascible and dysfunctional.

It was a group full of blatant drunkards who chased the guitarist (and future forward Megadeth) Dave Mustaine for drinking too much. Their steady rise has been threatened by a horrific bus accident that claimed the life of original bassist Cliff Burton, Jason Newsted and the replacement was in constant conflict with others, so that its contribution to 1988 ... And Justice for all was mixed so low as to be almost inaudible. And just when it seemed they had obtained as Mainstream as a Thrash Metal band could get, they hooked up with producer Bob Rock for 1991 Metallica (colloquially known as the Black Album) -which, with its a little more accessible, sold about eleventy-billion copies and made international stars. And we can probably just close the biopic there, because the band got a lot less dramatic once they sobered up.

5 Dance at night: the true story of Van Halen

The story of Van Halen, the ultimate Party-hearty rock band, offers a bus of dramatic possibilities. There are the early years, which saw guitarist Eddie Van Halen develop very unconventional gameplay techniques that would make him a God of the guitar; the cute encounter with singer David Lee Roth, a renowned singer who has absolutely owned the scene; the first demo funded by Gene Simmons from KISS. These are all great biopic Beats, and we could even end our movie with the band reaching world domination with their 1984 Landmark album. Or, if we wanted a four-hour movie, we could sidle through Roth's 1985 fallout with Sammy Hagar's group and mandate, during which things got bizarre-and the band became somehow even bigger.

Despite the Hagar years being the most commercially successful of the group, they were marked by the kind of wickedness and struggle against which, though unhappy, made for the big drama. We could revisit Hagar's dramatic break from the band, the unfortunate and brief tenure of singer Gary Cherone, the subsequent on-new-OFF-Again with Roth, and Eddie on stage freakouts. Of course, after all that, there would be no triumphant finale-for the last 20 years or so, the band just has a sort of soldier on every time they can tolerate each other long enough to do it . Unlike their super-happy-time image, it was a bit depressing.

Yeah, maybe just finish with 1984.

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6 Phil Collins is awesome

Let's get it right now: Phil Collins is a legend. If you only know it to make you wonder what the hell of a "Sussudio" is, then you're Collins-ing all wrong. He is one of the most respected drummers in rock; He lived skins for Genesis, a progressive and inventive rock band with drum parts that would make little drummers put their heads in their traps. Then, when singer Peter Gabriel left and took his uber-distinctive voice with him, Collins stepped up to sing lead-and not only did he kill, but took the genesis of Proggy Weirdos to one of the larger bands POP of the 80s.

Of course, we all know that he then made a solo career probably even more successful. But did you know that he helped invent the Sound Drum snare drum (first used on Gabriel's "intruder") that virtually defined the 80s? He did, and it's part of what makes perhaps the most memorable drum bar ever (on "in the air tonight," of course) so memorable. He was the only artist to play both live aid concerts, performing a solo game in London before jumping on a Concorde to go sing a few more songs and also sitting on drums for damn LED Zeppelin in Philadelphia. . He is a consummate professional, is badass unexpectedly, and has more career highlights than you can shake a stick at-and yet, he gets no respect. A biopic titled Phil Collins is great could remedy this haste.

7 Prince: sign O'The Times

Many biopics fascinate because they dive into the personal lives of their subjects, showing us the sides of our favorite artists we had never seen before. But if the Prince was never to be immortalized on the film, it would not really be the case. Prince did not have a lot of personal life. By all accounts, the man has lived, breathed, and eaten music, composing an average song a day and taking breaks for, well, sex. With Prince, what you saw was what you got-but his career contained a multitude of mature moments for dramatization.

In his early years, there was controversy over his dirty mind, brought on by albums like controversy and dirty mind. This spiral into full-fledged hysteria when the government went to war with music, a conflict fomented by purple's "pornography" lyrics of "Darling Nikki," from its seminal 1984 purple rain release. Once all that Hullabaloo died, there was the battle with his record label, which saw Prince appearing in public with the word "SLAVE" scribbled on his face. He also decided to upset his label by changing his name to an unpublished symbol. A biopic could also touch on the hits he wrote for other artists and his many stellar collaborations, and would virtually end up with George Harrison's posthumous Rock Hall of Fame, to which Prince paid tribute to one of the more blindly amazing guitar solos ever played.

8 Let's Dance: David Bowie's story

The big part about a biopic David Bowie? It would be like six different biopics in one. We could start with his early years playing in local bands under his real name Davy Jones before he changes to avoid confusion with the Monkee of the same name. After a first solo album went nowhere, he spent some time in a Buddhist monastery, then formed his own MIME troupe-and we did not even have the really interesting parts yet.

Throughout the 1970s, Bowie used to completely reshape his image every time fans began to think they had pinned him. The Spacy image of his first three albums has given way to Full-on alienhood in the form of perhaps his most famous character, Ziggy Stardust. It lasted a whole year before he glammed it for his next couple outing. Then, a web in his slick, pragmatic thin white character duke in the late '70s, a period during which he scored his first # 1 hit of the United States ("Fame," co-authored with John Lennon) . Finally, in the early 80s, he decided to "screw," and became a full-fledged pop star, recruiting the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughn to play the lead guitar on the hit Monster Smash album let's Dance-which is a good place to wrap up history, and as good a name for its biopic as anything. It's a bit lighter than the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and March spiders.

9 The ol'Kozmic Blues

Any movie detailing Janis Joplin's life and times will have to start from her childhood because her life was famous short. However, there is a lot to mine for inspiration beats here. She grew up singing in a church choir, and was bullied throughout school for her weight and acne, which of course she overcame to finally Kick about seven different ass types as one of the most powerful singers of his time. After a few unsuccessful stays at the College, she made a name for herself in the early 1960s by sitting down with folk singers and blowing them all out of the water. A performance at the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival proved to be not the big break she needed, and she nearly gave up on music (that would be around the middle of the second act) before being recruited by San Francisco -based big brother and the holding company-right Befo re this music scene exploded totally.

A return to Monterey for the 1967 Pop Festival finally got the attention of record execs, and her appearance on the 1968 big brother Thrills album cheap made her a star of good faith. Of course, the necessary drugs, alcohol and fights became factors, and Joplin will only produce two more (Awesome) solo albums before his untimely death in 1970. It's a classic story of struggle, life lasts , jump quickly, and die young - and Joplin's great personality and even greater voice deserve Hollywood treatment.

10 Alice Unchained

Laprise stubborn grew up wanting to be a musician, and played drums in groups from the age of 12. It seemed that music was his destiny from the beginning, but the first incarnation of his band Alice in Chains was a little different from the outfit we know and love. After guitarist Jerry took the stale singing at a local show, the pair formed "Alice N'chaines" in the late '80s in an attempt to score some of this soft-metal hair cash. As the music scene began to change and become all-grunge in the early 90s, the group corrected the spelling of their name and directed their music in a darker direction, helped by the fact that the stale harmonies and Carneiro sounded really, really scary in a cool like that.

Fadey's biopic would have to focus on the incredibly dazzling rise of the band, as they came to dominate Hard Rock and stale became known as one of the most original and influential singers of the genre. Of course, the third act would turn hard in the tale of caution territory. As early as 1993, Steadfast presented symptoms of intense drug addiction that would have ended up costing him his life in 2002. But he was a singer with an inustive debut who rose to cement a dominant legacy before losing everything to drugs, and if it's not classic rock'n'roll story, what is it?

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