Question: The inspiration behind the 2001 comedy film "Rock Star", Tim "Ripper" Owens was a tribute band singer who took over when the real lead singer left which band?

Context articles: '98 Live Meltdown
Rock Star (2001 film)
I've Been Good to You
Choke (EP)
Tim &quot;Ripper&quot; Owens
This Beautiful Republic
The Vibrants
Rock Star (TV series)
Erik Whittington
Joe Elliott

'98 Live Meltdown is a concert album by Judas Priest, recorded and released in 1998 and is the first live album to feature new lead singer Tim "Ripper" Owens, recorded during the Jugulator Tour.
 A second live album featuring Owens, "Live in London", was released in 2003.
Rock Star is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek and starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston.
 It tells the story of Chris "Izzy" Cole, a tribute band singer whose ascendance to the position of lead vocalist of his favorite band was inspired by the real-life story of Tim "Ripper" Owens, singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who was chosen to replace singer Rob Halford when he left the band.
"I've Been Good to You" is a 1961 R&B song by The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label.
 It was released as the B-side of their "Billboard" Top 40 hit, "What's So Good About Goodbye", and was included on their album "I'll Try Something New" the following year.
 This sad, melancholy ballad charted #103 on the "Billboard" Pop chart.
 Despite its relatively modest chart placing, this song has been hugely influential, and is noted as Beatle John Lennon's favorite Miracles tune, and was the inspiration behind The Beatles' song, "Sexy Sadie".
 Written by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson, the song begins with the lyric, "Look what you've done...You've made a fool out of someone..." which Lennon later paraphrased in "his" song as, "What have you done...You've made a fool of everyone."
Choke is the final release by hardcore band Kiss It Goodbye, released as a 7-inch single as well as a compact disc on November 2, 1999 through Revelation Records.
 The tracks "Choke", "Cement", and "Watching Hellraiser" were originally recorded in 1998 to be released as an EP through Sub Pop Records, however the band broke-up in September of 1997 after vocalist Tim Singer left the group.
Timothy S. "Ripper" Owens (born September 13, 1967) is an American heavy metal singer who currently performs with Beyond Fear, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Charred Walls of the Damned.
 He first gained attention as the lead singer of Judas Priest, and then Iced Earth.
 He took the nickname "Ripper" from the Judas Priest song "The Ripper" during his time in the tribute band "British Steel".
This Beautiful Republic was an American band signed to ForeFront Records in November 2006.
 They are best known for their song "Right Now".
 The group appeared on the Christian television show "The Logan Show" on December 9, 2006.
 The band ended in 2011 after releasing a three song EP of covers which was recorded before their lead singer left in 2009.
The Vibrants were a mid 1960s Australian pop rock group that emerged from Bobby James and the Vibrants in Adelaide.
 They charted with "Something About You Baby" and "My Prayer" as The Vibrants, after their lead singer left the band to form the Bobby James Syndicate.
 After little further success, they broke up in October 1968, when the group split into two bands, called The Graduate and The New Vibrants.
Rock Star is a television series produced by Mark Burnett, David Goffin, and Lisa Hennessy in which aspiring singers from all around the world competed to become the lead singer of a featured group.
 It debuted on CBS on July 11, 2005, to mediocre ratings.
 The show was hosted by television personality and commercial spokeswoman Brooke Burke and Jane's Addiction & Red Hot Chili Peppers lead guitarist Dave Navarro.
 In Australian band INXS chose J.D. Fortune as their new lead singer.
 For , the band Rock Star Supernova chose Lukas Rossi as the lead singer of their new supergroup.
Erik Whittington was the Lead and Rhythm Guitarist for the Christian Rock band Tragedy Ann, signed to Organic Records.
 Erik recorded with Tragedy Ann for all three of their albums.
 In 1998 he appeared on "Lesser"; in 1999 he appeared on the release "One Nation Under God" and in 2000 he appeared on the final Tragedy Ann release "Viva la Revolucion".
 He is also known for his work as the touring guitarist for Tooth and Nail Records recording artist Sometime Sunday and Star Wars tribute band "Twin Sister".
 The Lead singer for all three of Erik's band was Mikee Bridges known for starting TOMFest where Tragedy Ann played a reunion concert in 2000 and 2009.
 Tragedy Ann gained controversy as they became the front men for an organization known as Rock for Life, a pro-life organization, during their tours.
 Erik would later leave the music industry to run Rock for Life full-time.
 Both Tragedy Ann and Sometime Sunday would appear on Rock for Life CD Compilations.
Joseph Thomas Elliott Jr. (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Def Leppard.
 He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz.
 He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album.