The dearly departed Jeff Healey was a good friend who had great success as an artist, but appeared in film as a singer and friend to Patrick Swayze in Patrick’s movie ‘Roadhouse,’ making us remember other rockers who had their moment in film and television.
Here’s our brief list…
Who could forget Jon Bon Jovi in the well-produced submarine movie called U-571? Phil Collins, Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Buffett and David Crosby made a cameo’ appearance in Robin Williams classic ‘Hook’.
The mid-80s Miami Vice series was inundated with great rockers in various episodes. Ted Nugent, Phil Collins, Glenn Frey, and Frank Zappa all appeared in the series.
Eminem, of course, had achieved success by the time his movie ‘8 Mile’ came out, but the storyline was fairly close to the real story, plus we thought he did a good job acting.
Nancy Wilson was a character in the movie ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’, and it made sense as her husband at the time Cameron Crowe was the producer of the movie.
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