There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'

I went to see Mamma-Mia (somehow I feel like I'm at some sort of alcohlics meeting: "My name is Matthew and I went to see Mamma-Mia"). I would say that it was one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. The story was bad, the acting was bad and the singing was truly awful - although Pierce Brosnan singing SOS has to be seen, or rather heard, to be believed. Somehow though, I actually enjoyed the film.

By way of atoning for watching Mamma-Mia or perhaps just to get the damn songs out of my head, I've been listening to AC/DC a bit more than usual. I find that nothing chases Chiquita out of your mind quite like Big Balls or Whole Lotta Rosie. But AC/DC are about a bit more than usual anyway. I hear that they are number one in the UK which is a surprise. But I guess that they have just been around long enough to get respectable. As John Huston says in Chinatown "Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough".

But the combination of Mamma-Mia and AC/DC mixing in my head gives me ideas and I have been thinking of the songs for my Broadway musical "There's Gonna be Some Rockin". We are intorduced to our hero as he sings "Problem Child". He gets mixed up with gangs ("Riff Raff") and we see the gangs getting into fights ("If you Want Blood (you got it)". But he meets a woman ("Girls Got Rhythm") and gives her some sweet talk ("Let me put my love into you") before falling in love with her ("Love at First Feel", "Whole Lotta Rosie"). He decides to turn his back on gangs and join a rock and roll band which gives the opportunity to pick any from about 250 songs about being in a rock and roll band that AC/DC have written. But lets go for "Highway to Hell", "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" (after a neighbour complains about the noise) and, when his mum says she doesn't understand rock and roll, "Let There be Rock". He goes off on tour ("Its a Long Way to the Top") and comes back to town, which is called Black so he sings "Back in Black". Then they sing "Sin City" for no understandable reason. They have some relationship problems and split up for a while ("Beating Around the Bush"). Finally, he marries Rosie and they sing "You Shook Me All Night Long" together as the final ballad. It writes itself really, I just need to find a way to shoe-horn "For Those About to Rock" in there somehow.