MEMORABLE ROCK MOMENTS' IN MOVIES

1. The use of Rock Around The Clock over the credits of The Blackboard Jungle (1955)

1. The use of Rock Around The Clock over the credits of The Blackboard Jungle (1955). The right song in the right movie at the right time, anticipating rock'n'roll to a sublime degree.

2. Elvis slinging Gotta Lot of Living To Do at the end of Loving You (1957). If one scene spread the gospel of rock'n'roll, this was it.

3. Christ seemingly looking on during party scene in Scorpio Rising (1963) while Kris Jensen sings Torture. Probably the first underground rock movie.

4. James Brown performing Please, Please, Please in Gather No Moss (1964) the first successful `live' rock concert movie.

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5. The Beatles zipping back and forth through a games field as Can't Buy Me Love played in A Hard Day's Night (1964). The scene that launched a thousand rock videos.

6. Frank Sinatra singing Dream as camera traces line from discarded clothes on floor to Ann Margret and Jack Nicholson making love in Carnal Knowledge (1970). Seduction, 20th century style.

7. This Is Spinal Tap (1984). Every scene is memorable in this movie, which just may be the most truthful tale ever told about rock'n'roll.

8. The Bohemian Rhapsody singalong sequence in Wayne's World (1992). Teenage male bonding, and glorious stupidity, defined.

9. Stealers Wheel singing Stuck In The Middle in Pulp Fiction (1994) while cop loses his hearing, and ear, in time with the music.

10. Cross dressed Sadie Benning lip synching Fats Domino's Blueberry Hill in It Wasn't Love (1994). Best of the old and the new, mainstream and underground.