Word: neeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...print media might have been excuseable if the two-hour birthday show had at least amounted to a competent rock history documentary. Instead, the hapless viewer witnessed grating excesses of Felliniesque imagery accompanied by watered-down renditions of Beatle standards. The program featured such rock minor leagues as Ted Neeley (that's right, the Ted Neeley), Patti Labelle and Jeff Holland-and to top it all off, Steve Martin wasn't even funny...
...Just to offer one example, his notion of enhancing a song like When I'm Sixty-Four is to have two doddering floor-to-ceiling puppets paw lewdly at each other. As for plot, he tells a fragmentary tale of a Candide-like rock singer, Billy Shears (Ted Neeley), who meets and marries Strawberry Fields (Kay Cole)-the characters are christened from Beatles' songs. But Billy loses her to death and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack (Allan Nicholls), Sledge (William Parry) and Claw (E.G. Gibson). They are dressed in something resembling chain mail...