- Peter Frampton, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1977. With The Bee Gees substituting The Beatles, the musical was over before it began. . At least, baby brother Andy had the grace to follow Paul McCartney’s lead and refused to play Billy Shears in the what critics pounded as a mindless morass of most Pepper and Abbey Road songs – forming, said Newsweek’s David Ansen, “a dangerous resemblance to wallpaper.
- Michael Beck, Xanadu, 1979. After the mess his Bee Gees brothers, Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, made of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Andy Xana-didn’t touch the disastrous filmusical. Nor did John Travolta, even though(or becauae!) his Grease girl, Olivia Newton John, was starring. UK pop idol Cliff Richard supplied Beck’s singing. And ON-J refused to make another filmusical for 30 years!
- Maxwell Caulfield, Grease 2, 1981. Bee Gee Andy, Shaun Cassidy, Greg Evigan, Timothy Hutton, Rick Springfield were in the loop for Cool Rider, the Aussie student at Rydell High school for the totally unnecessary (and awful) sequel. Before the premiere, Caulfield was hailed as a new John Travolta. When it flopped, “nobody would touch me. It felt like a bucket of cold water had been thrown in my face. It took me 10 years to get over Grease.” Londoner Caulfield – in high school at 22! – has been wed to Hayley Mills’ sister, Juliet, since 1980.
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