filed under disco, musicals, New Wave retrofuture.
Rock & Rule (1983)
director Clive A. Smith
music Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Cheap Trick, Earth Wind and Fire
starring (voice) Catherine O’Hara
Ever get a song stuck in your head? When Debbie Harry supplied her talents for the underwhelming animated musical Rock & Rule, she created a song which, so the plot of the film goes, allows an aging popstar wizard to raise a demon at his farewell concert. Mok, a cross between David Bowie and Mick Jagger, kidnaps Harry’s character Angel and forces her to sing a lovesong so repetitive, so radio-friendly, that the demon must climb up from the netherhell to silence it.
…more about Debbie Harry: Rock & Rule