Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie (2013)

Directors

Steve Barker

Cast

John Otway

The story

The film opens with Otway performing Beware of the Flowers (Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You, Yeah) on stage in front of over 20,000 people at an outdoor gig in his hometown of Aylesbury in 1978 before fast-forwarding to 2012, where Otway gives a talk to students at his old school on how to survive in the music industry. The documentary charts Otway's many—mostly failed—attempts to achieve chart success and the fame and fortune that accompany it, as well as how his dedicated fanbase helped secure him a second hit. Explaining his initial breakthrough, Otway recounts his appearance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, where, eager to make…

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