SUMARIO. The status and the potential of film-music that doesn’t work / The motion picture you’re about to see is a story of music: the migration of cinema into rock ‘n’ roll / It’s not only trivial, it’s bad, vulgar: Ken Russell’s composer biopics and the uneasy realignment of work and culture / Troubling synthesis: the horrific sights and incompatible sounds of video nasties / Pop stars who can’t act and the limits of celebrity flexibility / The problems of conclusion.