In this 1984 cult classic movie a legendary British heavy metal band attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, icandidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
   Today, the band exists both as a fictitious entity, whose members are the characters portrayed by the actors, and also as a real entity, in that the actors have performed and released recordings under the band's name.