Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
What the Elvis movies could have been As I have written in my Expresso Bongo review, my pointed and analytical friends and I embarked on a mission to watch every Cliff Richard movie. The mission was as a consequence of watching every Elvis movie and wanting to compare the film outputs of Elvis and Britain's, admittedly befuddling, answer to Elvis. It's why I unabashedly say The Young Ones is what the Elvis movies could and probably should have been. The Young Ones is exactly the sort of inoffensive musical nonsense that Colonel Tom Parker purveyed and pushed on the public, except with a crucial difference... it's not boring. It's honestly night and day in terms of the difference. You have some tangible intentional themes, cinematography that involves more than switching a camera on, choreography that doesn't involve people moving from one side of the set to the other and a morsul of drama. Rock n'Roll in the 1950's and 1960's ultimately came to symbolise youth rebellion. Obvio
