Featuring two actors who were better known as comedians. Tutti Frutti established both Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson as serious actors.
Coltrane plays two roles. The late Big Jazza McGlone, lead singer of the 1960s band The Majestics. They were about to start a silver jubilee tour arranged by their dodgy manager Eddie Clockerty (Richard Wilson.)
His brother Danny has returned from America to for the funeral. He claims to be a successful painter in New York when he meets Suzi Kettles (Thomson) who he was in art school with.
She is now a waitress, while Danny later admits that life is not great in New York, he lives in a crummy loft apartment.
However Danny has a chance to take over the lead singer of the Majestics, something he is reluctant to do.
The first episode benefits a lot from the strong writing by John Byrne. Acerbic and funny. There is an instant chemistry between Coltrane and Thompson.
The script plays to Coltrane's strengths. At times it looks like he is freewheeling, cracking jokes, doing impressions. It also helped the Coltrane could sing and play in real life.
Coltrane plays two roles. The late Big Jazza McGlone, lead singer of the 1960s band The Majestics. They were about to start a silver jubilee tour arranged by their dodgy manager Eddie Clockerty (Richard Wilson.)
His brother Danny has returned from America to for the funeral. He claims to be a successful painter in New York when he meets Suzi Kettles (Thomson) who he was in art school with.
She is now a waitress, while Danny later admits that life is not great in New York, he lives in a crummy loft apartment.
However Danny has a chance to take over the lead singer of the Majestics, something he is reluctant to do.
The first episode benefits a lot from the strong writing by John Byrne. Acerbic and funny. There is an instant chemistry between Coltrane and Thompson.
The script plays to Coltrane's strengths. At times it looks like he is freewheeling, cracking jokes, doing impressions. It also helped the Coltrane could sing and play in real life.