List of films about bands

Columns: Year | Film/Title | Director ( s ) | Cast/Leads | Notes
1977 | ABBA : The Movie | Lasse Hallström | ABBA Robert Hughes | Largely filmed during ABBA 's 1977 Australian tour , the film is a record of a pop band at the peak of its global chart success . It was the first English-language feature directed by future Academy Award nominee Hallström , who also directed most of the band 's pioneering music videos . He is also credited as writer , though he has admitted that much of the story , involving a radio reporter trying to land an interview with the band , was mostly improvised on the fly . The film features 19 live performances including one song , Get on the Carousel , that has never been officially released on any other medium | 1978 | Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park | Gordon Hessler | Kiss | In this made-for-television film , Kiss use their superpowers to battle an evil inventor and to save a California amusement park from destruction | 1978 | The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | The Band | Arranged by travel-weary Robbie Robertson as a farewell concert for The Band . Containing comments by the bandmembers and a host of notable guest performers associated with The Band , it contains concert footage and interviews taped both upon the occasion and afterward . The film drew controversy in part , as the other bandmates did not share Robertson 's eagerness to part . Other issues , according to Levon Helm , involved the lack of visibility of The Band itself , drug use both on set , ( including by Scorsese and musicians ostensibly affecting the quality of the film ) , and Helm felt the film portrayed Robertson the key player in a star role , minimizing what appeared to him as the importance of the other bandmates and their contributions | 1978 | Sgt . Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Michael Schultz | Peter Frampton The Bee Gees | The film uses the music of The Beatles to tell the story of a band as they wrangle with the music industry and battle evil forces bent on stealing their instruments and corrupting their home town of Heartland | 1979 | Rock ' n ' Roll High School | Allan Arkush | Ramones P.J . Soles | A musical comedy about a high school girl and her quest to meet her rock heroes , The Ramones | 1980 | The Blues Brothers | John Landis | John Belushi Dan Aykroyd | Paroled convict Jake and his brother Elwood , set out on a mission from God to save the Catholic orphanage in which they were raised from foreclosure . To do so , they must reunite their R & B band and organize a performance to earn $ 5,000 needed to pay the orphanage 's property tax bill | 1982 | Ladies and Gentlemen , The Fabulous Stains | Lou Adler | Diane Lane Laura Dern | A cult classic starring about three teenage girls who form a punk rock band

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Answers:
biographical | musical | Andrew Birkin | musical comedy