Laverne & Shirley nearly get into a marriage of convenience to two British Invasion rockers (Eric Idle and Peter Noone).SCTV "Mel's Rock Pile" has punk band The Queen Haters playing "I Hate the Bloody Queen", which underwhelms the American Bandstand style audience.The inclusion of Davy Jones in The Monkees.He automatically goes for a British accent. In one episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Wayne plays a rock star in his hotel room in this round of Let's Make A Date.SNL marked Margaret Thatcher's death with a sketch about Ian Rubbish, a fictional British punk rocker who confounded his bandmates by writing pro-Thatcher songs. The sketch "Needs More Cowbell" has the British producer/rock star Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with the real Bruce Dickinson, who is also British).Their leader is played by Michael Des Barres, a Real Life British rock star whose subsequent acting career would also take him to the above-mentioned "Nina in the Cantina" episode of Just Shoot Me!. The difference from Punk Rock is that they dress in fine suits and ties, speak in erudite English and gleefully commit violent crimes on everyone, including their fans, whenever possible. WKRP in Cincinnati had an early episode where the station sponsored a concert with the British band, Scum of the Earth, who stress that they specialize in Hoodlum Rock.He has a stalker who claims to be his son from a tryst with his mother 16 years previous (which would make this band a popular British band in America pre-Beatles). Once on Quantum Leap Sam leaped into a British Rock Star, whose band had taken up KISSesque facial makeup as a gimmick.Along with his brother, to push the Oasis analogy further. Charlie on Lost was one in his back-story.He eventually recalls that she's "that crazy bird what shagged our bass player" while drunk/stoned out of her mind. Everyone, including Nina, assumes the song is about her, but when the two meet, he doesn't have any idea who Nina is.
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