Do we love it when Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman whip out Fender Stratocasters, Gibson Les Pauls and Flying Vs and proceed to rock? Yes, very much.
That thought, invariably, brings to mind a fellow who played Frankenstein and rocked a Flying V with panache: one of the all-time movie greats, Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922 – June 7, 2015).
On the short list of celebrated movie and television actors who also had a music career, among other things, Sir Christopher Lee led his own metal band and made a bunch of excellent records.
The promo videos for Christopher Lee's Metal album are appropriately operatic.
After all, he does sing Symphonic Metal.
Here, submitted for your approval, are just a few trailers from Sir Christopher Lee's many, many classic movies.
Not surprisingly, the coming attractions begin with Hammer Films.
Director, classic cartoon, sci fi and psychotronica buff Joe Dante waxes poetic about Hammer Films' Gothic epic The Curse Of Frankenstein.
Content to not just play Frankenstein and Dracula at Hammer Films, Lee also portrayed Sherlock Holmes!
A key contributor to the Star Wars, 007 and J.R.R. Tolkien via Peter Jackson cinema franchises, Christopher Lee may have been the only actor to both be in WW2 Great Britain's special forces and appear in a James Bond flick.
And also host Saturday Night Live.
In closing, we doff our top hats that could have been worn by Count Dracula or Vic Frankenstein to the genre-busting career of Christopher Lee.
Alas, for the umpteenth time in 2023 - and we haven't even hit Memorial Day yet - the gang of reprobates and rapscallions here end a post by noting the passing of yet another legend from the world of music. That's powerhouse entertainer Tina Turner, like Mr. Lee Simply The Best. Go here right now and watch Tina's bravura performance of River Deep Mountain High from her 1989 induction to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, then check out her appearances on Late Night With David Letterman.
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