Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)

Director:

Norman Cohen

Writers:

Christopher Wood (screenplay)
Christopher Wood (novel)

Release Date:

July 1975 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The dirty window cleaner finds out pop is just a racket!

Plot:

Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time...

Plot Keywords:

Pop Group | Brother In Law | Record Store | Drummer | Fan

Cast

Robin Askwith	...	Timothy Lea
Anthony Booth	...	Sidney Noggett
Bill Maynard	...	Mr. Lea
Doris Hare	...	Mrs. Lea
Sheila White	...	Rosie Noggett
Lin Harris	...	Jason Noggett
Bob Todd	...	Mr. Barnwell
Jill Gascoine	...	Mrs. Barnwell
Peter Jones	...	Maxy Naus
Carol Hawkins	...	Jill Brown
Peter Cleall	...	Nutter Normington (Kipper)
Richard Warwick	...	Petal (Kipper)
David Auker	...	Zombie (Kipper)
Maynard Williams	...	Eric (Kipper)
Mike King	...	Blow (Kipper)

Also Known As:

Timothy Lea's Confessions of a Pop Performer (UK) (complete title)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

The "high tech" hardware in the record shop seduction scene includes props scavenged/recycled from Gerry Anderson's UFO series shot a few years earlier.

Quotes:

Fanny's mother: Have you seen my Fanny?

Movie Connections:

References The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Soundtrack:

I need you (like a hole in the head)

Timmy swaps cleaning windows for rock 'n' roll.

Confessions of a Pop Performer, the second film to star Robin Askwith as randy, accident prone fanny-magnet Timmy Lea, sees our clumsy hero trying to find fame and fortune as the drummer for up and coming band 'Kipper'.

Timmy's equally libidinous brother-in-law Sid (Anthony Booth) acts as manager for the group, successfully exploiting his showbiz contacts—including the sexy wife of a music mogul—and it's not long before Timmy is being mobbed by gorgeous groupies and banging much more than his drum kit!

Offering saucy soft-core sex (including frequent, full-frontal, female nudity) and smutty seaside humour, the Confessions series is aimed squarely at those who enjoy their comedy lewd, crude, and unsophisticated, but in an effort to be more outrageous than the first film, Pop Performer takes the crassness and stupidity a little too far and loses a fair amount of the original's charm in the process.

The basic plot is rather hard to swallow (Timmy's drumming skills are non-existent), the tried and tested 'Timmy meets a nice girl' subplot is used once again but goes nowhere, and whilst the first film did at least attempt to throw in some genuinely well written jokes and inventive innuendo along with the slapstick comedy and jiggery-pokery, Pop Performer doesn't try very hard in this department: the humour in this sequel gives new meaning to the word 'lowbrow' and the result just isn't very funny.

Still, even though the format is already beginning to look tired, and the laughs are few and far between, this chapter does deliver the goods when it comes to nudity, and fans of the female form will have much to enjoy: a sexy fan mistakes Timmy for Mick Jagger and tries to seduce him; a kinky S&M swinger gets nekkid at a party; Timmy has it off with a tasty record shop salesgirl; TV star Jill Gascoine gets the not-so-gentle touch from Anthony Booth; and curvy Carry On girl Diane Langton appears as one half of a singing act called The Climax Sisters.

Other familiar faces also appearing, but keeping their clothes on, include Dads Army stars Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee, husky redhead Rula Lenska, DJ David 'Diddy' Hamilton, and Hi-De-Hi's Linda Regan.