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The Real Rock Follies - The Great Girl Band Rip-Off of 1976 (Paperback)
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The Real Rock Follies - The Great Girl Band Rip-Off of 1976 (Paperback)
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October 21, 1982. Three singers stand on the steps of the High
Court with large cheques and broken dreams. The women are Annie
(Annabel Leventon, the book's author), GB (Gaye Brown), and Di-Di
(Diane Langton). Their dream was of a British three-woman rock
band, unique and different from anything that had gone before. They
called themselves Rock Bottom. They were raunchy, rude and
hilarious - the contemporary media described them as 'a cross
between the female Rolling Stones and the female Marx Brothers' -
and they nearly made it. Until Thames Television stole everything
and made a major award-winning series called Rock Follies, about
them, based on them, but without them. It made stars of the three
lookalikes playing them. And they lost everything. A common enough
tale of showbiz betrayal. Except that they fought back. At the
offset of the Court trial, the Head of Drama at Thames TV
sarcastically quipped, 'three little actresses against the might of
EMI?' Forget it, the three ladies were told. Move on. They didn't.
They took the case to the High Court and won. Breach of Confidence
is now on the Statute Books and it has become one of the defining
cases in Intellectual Property. The Real Rock Follies is a
real-life story of youthful trust betrayed, dreams of stardom
dashed and cruel lessons learnt. The three girls, then in their
late twenties, learned too late that in the harsh showbiz world you
can hardly trust anyone, not even your friends. However, despite
everything, they got the last laugh. Their promising career
couldn't be returned to them but they enjoyed the huge satisfaction
(both emotional and financial) that the ruling confirmed that the
creative concept behind Rock Follies was fully theirs.
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