Semi-Autobiographical Films in Which Musicians Play Thinly-Veiled Versions of Themselves: A Poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

A piece in Mojo a few years back suggested that That'll Be The Day (the film before Stardust about the same band) referred to The Beatles story much more than people would assume; all sorts of little 'incidents' that occur are based on the Hamburg years and such like. I think Stardust itself was more a 'generic 70s band' story.

Hard to Hold is not a good movie but "Love Somebody" is a slammin song.

btw Honeysuckle & 1TP were made by actual good filmmakers

Oh, I should have posted in this thread about Jacques Demy's last film, the very weird 'Three Seats for the 26th'. It stars French singer Yves Montand as Yves Montand, a french singer who returns to Marseille to star in a musical based on the life of Yves Montand. The scenes from the play are quite biographical, but then it's mixed with a weird melodrama that ends with Yves Montand having sex with his own daughter. Very very weird last film from Demy, and his eighties music isn't quite as charming as it was in the sixties.

Credible showing by Slade, seeing as they were up against Prince!

Crossroads does not, that doesn't star any prominent musicians playing a version of themselves iirc?

Steve Vai plays a hired gun stunt guitarist (if the devil's), tbf.

Seriously, more than one currently teenaged boy who plays guitar has positively referenced this film ime, which is simultaneously O_O and reassuring.

(1986 Crossroads obv)

still can't figure out what Flame is
surely not this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_(1996_film)

the top result for Slade in Flame

Songwriter starring Willie Nelson (basically playing himself) and Kris Kristofferson m/l playing Waylon is definitely worth your time. also features an excellent Rip Torn as a grizzled seedy promoter. solid B+

i remember watching Hard to Hold on like Betamax at a friend's house when i was about 7. his older sisters (prob in jr high) were out of control. (i think?) it briefly shows Rick's ass and i thought they were going to pass out.

Pete Townshend's White City: The Music Movie might qualify. He plays a musician named "Pete," and is referred to by another character as "yer famous friend." It's basically videos/performances of the White City songs interspersed with dramatic sequences, but it works fairly well. Only released in 1985 on VHS and Laserdisc, never reissued.

https://youtu.be/7iFtg4JFgzE