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Have we all forgotten Lou Reed’s remarkable turn as Mok in ‘Rock and Rule’?
11.02.2013
02:03 pm
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Have we all forgotten Lou Reed’s remarkable turn as Mok in ‘Rock and Rule’?

Rock and Rule
 
This video clip comes from Rock and Rule (1983), a kind of follow-up to 1981’s legendary animated sci-fi anthology movie Heavy Metal directed by Gerald Potterton. Both movies were Canadian, but there appears to be no official connection between them.

As with Heavy Metal, Rock and Rule was able to cobble together a very impressive musical lineup, including Reed, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Cheap Trick, and Earth, Wind, & Fire. Mok, who is an ageing rock musician who in search of a particular voice that can unleash a fearsome demon from a different dimension, was voiced by Don Francks (who also did voice work in Heavy Metal), but his visual look was clearly inspired by Iggy Pop, even if his song was sung by Lou Reed. It’s all a little reminiscent of a certain T-shirt we heard about recently.
 

 
Thank you Wilder Selzer!

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Punk rock humanoid cats and Iggy Pop in the animated flick ‘Rock & Rule’

Posted by Martin Schneider
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11.02.2013
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