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Detroit Rock City (film)

Index Detroit Rock City (film)

Detroit Rock City is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Adam Rifkin and written by Carl V. Dupré. [1]

102 relations: AC/DC, Ace Frehley, Adam Rifkin, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Atheism, Audio commentary, Black Sabbath, Blu-ray, Box office bomb, Box Office Mojo, British Board of Film Classification, CBS Interactive, Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, Cheap Trick, Chop shop, Cleveland, Cobo Center, Come Sail Away, Comedy film, Coming-of-age story, Cover band, David Bowie, Dazed and Confused (film), Deleted scene, Detroit, Detroit Rock City, Disco, Drain STH, DVD, Edward Furlong, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Everclear (band), FirstOntario Centre, Flixster, Frisbee, Gene Simmons, Giuseppe Andrews, Glam rock, Hamilton, Ontario, Hard rock, Heavy metal music, Highway to Hell (song), I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film), IMDb, Iron Man (song), J. Peter Robinson, Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song), Joe Flaherty, John R. Leonetti, Kiss (band), ..., Kiss Army, Kissology Volume Three: 1992–2000, Lin Shaye, List of American films of 1999, Little Willy (song), Marilyn Manson, Mark Goldblatt, Matthew G. Taylor, Melanie Lynskey, Mercury Records, Metacritic, Michael Barry (actor), Michigan, MTV Classic (U.S. TV network), Natasha Lyonne, New Line Cinema, Nick Scotti, Ohio, Ontario, Pantera, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Power pop, Rebel Rebel, Road rage, Robert Smith (Canadian actor), Rock 'n' Roll High School, Ron Jeremy, Rotten Tomatoes, Runnin' with the Devil, Sam Huntington, Scarborough, Toronto, School Days (song), Shannon Tweed, Shout It Out Loud (Kiss song), Stretch Armstrong, Strutter, Styx (band), Surrender (Cheap Trick song), The Boys Are Back in Town, The Donnas, The Runaways, The Stoned Age, The Sweet, Thin Lizzy, Tribute act, UFO (band), Van Halen, VHS, Volvo 200 Series, Whole Lotta Rosie, 20th Century Boy. Expand index (52 more) »

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (born April 27, 1951)Gill, Julian.

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Adam Rifkin

Adam Rifkin (born December 31, 1966), sometimes credited as Rif Coogan, is an American film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Audio commentary

An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Box office bomb

In the motion picture industry, a "box office bomb" or "box office flop" is a film that is considered highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, often following significant hype regarding its cost, production, or marketing efforts.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive Inc. (formerly CBS Digital Media Group) is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation.

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Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute

Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute (CCI or Cedarbrae CI, formerly Cedarbrae Secondary School) is a Toronto District School Board semestered public high school in the Woburn neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the schools serves immersion and extended French students and houses approximately 1268 students as of Fall 2014.

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Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1974.

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Chop shop

In motor vehicle theft, a chop shop is a location or business which disassembles stolen vehicles, primarily cars, for the purpose of selling its parts.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Cobo Center

Cobo Center, formerly Cobo Hall, is a convention center along Jefferson and Washington avenues in downtown Detroit, Michigan.

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Come Sail Away

"Come Sail Away" is a song by American progressive rock group Styx, featured on the band's seventh album The Grand Illusion (1977).

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Coming-of-age story

In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood ("coming of age").

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Cover band

A cover band (or covers band), is a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Dazed and Confused (film)

Dazed and Confused is a 1993 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Richard Linklater.

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Deleted scene

A deleted scene is footage that has been removed from the final version of a film or television show.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Detroit Rock City

"Detroit Rock City" is a song by the American hard rock group Kiss, featured on their 1976 album Destroyer.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Drain STH

Drain STH (STH for Stockholm) was a rock band from Sweden.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Edward Furlong

Edward Walter Furlong (born August 2, 1977) is an American actor and musician.

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Emmanuelle Chriqui

Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui (born December 10, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actress.

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Everclear (band)

Everclear is an American rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1991.

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FirstOntario Centre

FirstOntario Centre (originally Copps Coliseum) is a sports and entertainment arena on the corner of Bay Street North and York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Flixster

Flixster was an American social movie site for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.

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Frisbee

A frisbee (also called a flying disc or simply a disc) is a gliding toy or sporting item that is generally plastic and roughly in diameter with a lip, used recreationally and competitively for throwing and catching, for example, in flying disc games.

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Gene Simmons

Gene Klein, born Chaim Witz (חיים ויץ,, born August 25, 1949), known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, author and television personality.

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Giuseppe Andrews

Giuseppe Andrews (born Joey Murcia; April 25, 1979) is an American film actor, writer, and director known for his roles as Lex in the 1999 film Detroit Rock City, a bizarre sheriff's deputy in Cabin Fever (2002), a small role in Never Been Kissed (1999), as well as appearances in The Smashing Pumpkins videos "1979" and "Perfect".

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Highway to Hell (song)

"Highway to Hell" is the opening track of AC/DC's 1979 album Highway to Hell.

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a 1978 American comedy film directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis, which takes its name from the 1963 song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Iron Man (song)

"Iron Man" is a song by British rock band Black Sabbath.

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J. Peter Robinson

John Peter Robinson (born 16 September 1945, in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire) is an English composer, musician, and arranger known for his film and television scores.

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Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song)

"Jailbreak" is a song by Thin Lizzy that originally appeared as the title track on their 1976 album Jailbreak.

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Joe Flaherty

Joe Flaherty (born June 21, 1941) is an American actor, comedian and voice artist.

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John R. Leonetti

John Robert Leonetti, (born July 4, 1956) is an American cinematographer and film director.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Kiss Army

The KISS Army is the official fan club for the American rock band Kiss, as well as the unofficial name used to refer to Kiss fans in general.

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Kissology Volume Three: 1992–2000

Kissology Volume Three: 1992–2000 is a DVD/Home Video released by Kiss and VH1 Classic Records.

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Lin Shaye

Linda Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American theater, film, and television actress.

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List of American films of 1999

A list of American films released in 1999.

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Little Willy (song)

"Little Willy" is a song written by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and performed by the British glam rock band The Sweet, released in 1972 as a non-album single in the UK, peaking at #4 in the best seller charts.

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Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known by his stage name, Marilyn Manson, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, actor, painter, author, and former music journalist.

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Mark Goldblatt

Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor and director.

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Matthew G. Taylor

Matthew Gordon Taylor is a Canadian actor.

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Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Michael Barry (actor)

Michael Barry is an actor, known for his roles in Dawn of the Dead, Last Night and Detroit Rock City.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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MTV Classic (U.S. TV network)

MTV Classic (formerly VH1 Smooth, VH1 Classic Rock, and VH1 Classic) is an American television network owned by Viacom Media Networks.

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Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein (born April 4, 1979), better known as Natasha Lyonne, is an American actress.

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New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film production studio a part of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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Nick Scotti

Domenico Nicola Aniello "Nick" Scotti (born May 31, 1966) is an American actor, model and singer.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Pantera

Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas.

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Paul Stanley

Stanley Bert Eisen (born January 20, 1952), known professionally by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and painter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and singer of the rock band Kiss.

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Peter Criss

George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20, 1945), better known by his stage name Peter Criss, is a retired American musician and actor, best known as a co-founder, original drummer, and occasional vocalist of the hard rock band Kiss.

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Power pop

Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.

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Rebel Rebel

"Rebel Rebel" is a song by David Bowie, released in 1974 as a single from the album Diamond Dogs.

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Road rage

Road rage is aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by a driver of a road vehicle, which includes rude and offensive gestures, verbal insults, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted toward another driver or a pedestrian in an effort to intimidate or release frustration.

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Robert Smith (Canadian actor)

Robert Norman Smith (born 1966) is a Canadian actor who was known as Rob Smith in his earlier works.

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Rock 'n' Roll High School

Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 musical comedy film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush, and starring P. J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, and Clint Howard.

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Ron Jeremy

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953), better known by the stage name Ron Jeremy, is an American pornographic actor, filmmaker, actor, and stand-up comedian.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Runnin' with the Devil

"Runnin' with the Devil" is the second single from Van Halen's 1978 eponymous debut album.

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Sam Huntington

Sam Huntington (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor.

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Scarborough, Toronto

Scarborough (2011 Census 625,698) is an administrative district and former city in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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School Days (song)

"School Days" (also known as "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)") is a rock-and-roll song written and recorded by Chuck Berry and released by Chess Records as a single in March 1957 and on the LP After School Session two months later (see 1957 in music).

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Shannon Tweed

Shannon Lee Tweed Simmons (born March 10, 1957) is a Canadian actress and model.

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Shout It Out Loud (Kiss song)

"Shout It Out Loud" is a song by the American hard rock group Kiss originally released on their 1976 album, Destroyer.

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Stretch Armstrong

Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced in 1976 by Kenner.

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Strutter

"Strutter" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss, released in 1974 on their self-titled debut album, Kiss.

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Styx (band)

Styx is an American rock band from Chicago that formed in 1972 and became famous for its albums released in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Surrender (Cheap Trick song)

"Surrender" is a single by Cheap Trick released in June 1978 from the album Heaven Tonight.

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The Boys Are Back in Town

"The Boys Are Back in Town" is a single from Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy.

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The Donnas

The Donnas are an American rock band from Palo Alto, California.

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The Runaways

The Runaways were an all-female teenage American rock band that recorded and performed in the second half of the 1970s.

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The Stoned Age

The Stöned Age is a 1994 American comedy film directed by James Melkonian, set during the 1970s about two long haired stoners named Michael Hubbs and Joe Connolly and one night cruising Los Angeles' suburbs looking for alcohol, parties, and chicks.

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The Sweet

The Sweet (also known as Sweet) is a British glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s.

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Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969.

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Tribute act

A tribute act, tribute band or tribute group is a music group, singer, or musician who specifically plays the music of a well-known music act.

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UFO (band)

UFO are an English rock band that was formed in London in 1968.

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Van Halen

Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Volvo 200 Series

The Volvo 200 series was a range of mid-size cars produced by Volvo Cars from 1974 to 1993, with more than 2.8 million units sold worldwide.

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Whole Lotta Rosie

"Whole Lotta Rosie" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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20th Century Boy

"20th Century Boy" is a song by T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Rock_City_(film)

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