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Movies with rock stars in them [Rock Films Part 2]

Movies with rock stars in them (main character or cameo):


Alice Cooper "Prince of Darkness", "Dark Shadows", "Wayne's World"

Billy Idol "The Wedding Singer"

Rock and Roll High School with The Ramones
Bruce Springsteen "High Fidelity"

Bono "Across the Universe"

David Bowie "Labyrinth", "The Prestige", "The Hunger", "Twin Peaks", "Zoolander", "The Man who fell to Earth", "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", "The Linguini Incident", "Absolute Beginners"

200 Motels with Frank Zappa
Debbie Harry "Videodrome"

Elton John "Tommy"

Eric Clapton "Tommy"

Frank Zappa "200 Motels", "Head"

The Ramones "Rock and Roll High School"

John Lennon "How I Won the War"

John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) "Cop Killer"(also titled as Corrupt) 

Keith Richards "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"

Lemmy Kilmister "Airheads", "Eat the rich"

Rocky Horror Picture Show with Meatloaf
Meatloaf "Fight Club", "Spice World", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "The Pick of Destiny"

The Monkees "The Brady Bunch Movie"

Micky Dolenz "Halloween" (new Rob Zombie version)

Mick Jagger "Free Jack", "Performance"

Paul Williams "Phantom of the Paradise"

Ringo Starr "Caveman", "Litzomania", "The Magic Christian"

Roger Daltrey "Litzomania", "Tommy", "McVicar"

Ronnie James Dio "The Pick of Destiny"

Roy Orbison "Roadie"

The movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) *enough said

Stiv Bators "Polyester"

Sting "Quadrophenia", "The Bride", "Dune"

Tom Petty "The Postman"

Ozzy Osbourne "Little Nicky", "Trick or Treat"

Please note: If you have a question about any of these movies, or would like to add more to the list, feel free to contact me -or- join in the conversation on my facebook page. We love talking about this stuff!

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