10 Immersive Songs That Would Make Killer Movies

3. Shooting Star - Bad Company

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kEDa6bXnA8 Cautionary rock n' roll tales are as old as the rock genre itself. All of us can recite at least one of the myriad stories of rockers who lived hard and died young (people like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, etc.). We've also taken in many fictional stories of doomed rockers, including Jan De Bont's 2005 film Last Days and Harlan Ellison's 1961 novel Spider Kiss. Several rock bands have also recorded their own variations on this well-known story. The best of said variations is Bad Company's 1975 story-song "Shooting Star." "Shooting Star" tells the story of Johnny, a boy who falls in love with rock n' roll music after hearing The Beatles' "Love Me Do." Johnny buys a guitar and teaches himself to become a rock guitarist. After becoming proficient with his guitar, he joins a rock band, which begins to have some local success. After a while, Johnny and his band decide to move to a different town and cut a record. Johnny leaves home, much to his mother's dismay. Johnny and the band do cut a record, which shoots to the top of the charts. Johnny and the band are suddenly the hottest commodities in the music industry. Johnny begins to enjoy all the vices that come with being a superstar. Unfortunately, said vices get the better of Johnny. He eventually dies, having overdosed on the deadly combination of sleeping pills and whiskey. As we've mentioned the terrain that "Shooting Star" trods has already been explored on film, but there's no reason it couldn't be explored again. I see this film having the same style as David Chase's 2012 film Not Fade Away: a coming-of-age story with a rough side. Johnny would be a small-town teen with dreams of changing the world with his earth-shattering music. Johnny and his band cut their first record with those ideals, but the huge success of their album sends the group down the path of vice and greed. Such a path ends in tragedy, as Johnny succumbs to the same fate that awaits him in the song.