Frank: The True Story That Inspired The Movie - Plot & Excerpts
‘Hello?’ I said. ‘HELLO!’ yelled Frank Sidebottom. ‘ . . . Frank?’ I said. ‘OH YES,’ said Frank Sidebottom. We hadn’t spoken in fifteen years. ‘It’s been so long,’ I said. Between 1987 and 1990 I was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head with a cartoon face painted on it – two wide bug eyes staring, red lips frozen into a permanent half-smile, very smooth hair. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. His voice, slightly muffled under the head, was disguised too – cartoonish and nasal, as if he was a man-child pretending to be a nightclub comic. Our act involved us doing amateurish plinkety-plonk cover versions of pop classics such as ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ and ‘We Are The Champions’.
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