Who is rock of ages based on

The filmmakers have said they took a relatively straight approach aesthetically to the 80s-rock look. Do you think they captured the right mood—was there anything that seemed out of place? I told you I saw bigger shoulder pads. Many of the bands that came later in the 80s, after you started, sounded a lot like Def Leppard, but added a lot of fashion and big hair and posing—and you guys never did too much of that.

I mean, you did have some hair—. We just got on doing what we did and whatever happens happens. He could have lived with Def Leppard. And that was the problem. There were bands that sounded like G. It was just a weaker version. And the novelty wore off pretty quick. So you think it was a rebellion against the sameness, not the sound? I think it was a bit of both. But I think the new generation—which was the 90s—are always going to come along and [challenge] the previous generation.

Who wrote a letter to the museum asking not to be included in or in any way associated with the induction itself. His response, of course, had as much to do with ongoing feuds with several of his old bandmates as with any ambivalence he might have felt about the Hall of Fame itself. Still, his antics must have seemed nothing but good PR to the makers of "Rock of Ages.

Somewhere somebody was eating this stuff up. It was great. In fact the first tune we hear in "Rock of Ages" is "Paradise City," playing on the headphones of a young woman headed on a bus to the jungle of LA. Hey, somebody's out to get us all, or maybe just to sell us out. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Clifton Spargo, Contributor.

Suggest a correction. That was the '80s. Played by Julianne Hough "Footloose" , this fictional heroine flees Kansas for Los Angeles in the hopes of becoming a singer. Hough bears some similarities to her role -- she left Utah for Los Angeles at 18 and became a country singer -- but needed a physical makeover to play the part.

My booty was a lot bigger! And so was the top half of my body. The role of the lowly bartender with rock-star dreams is played by Diego Boneta, a Mexican pop singer and soap-opera actor all but unknown in America.

But this time, it worked! In the s, Los Angeles was still a treasure trove of post- World War II coffee shops with atomic architecture and Cadillac-style detailing.

Along with the so-called Rock 'n' Roll Denny's at Sunset, the now-. Look quickly for its distinctive sign orange lettering on a white background around the time Drew gets his big break.

Shankman credits L. Played by Catherine Zeta-Jones , Whitmore is the wife of the Los Angeles mayor Bryan Cranston and an ambitious politico in her own right who wants to ban rock music and "take Satan off the streets. Mary J. Blige plays the mother-hen manager of the fictional nudie bar the Venus Club, where a down-and-out Sherrie waits tables.

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