Some of the best music movies of all time feature fictional bands and singers that we can only imagine standing in line for.

My basic point would be that it wasn’t unusual for real bands to show up as thinly veiled versions of themselves on TV. But I’m not writing about television today. I’m writing about movies.

Great bands don't have to be real. What does that mean? There are plenty of great bands that exist only on the screen. Sure, some fictional bands have managed to play some real-life gigs ...

Real-life sixties band The Strawberry Alarm Clock star alongside ... in what Mark has called “the Citizen Kane of British pop movies”. The Wolverhampton rockers play Flame – a band who ...