@@corenecipolletti2238 thanks corene! I just heard that drummer Hal Blaine is gone too at 90. He is also on this and countless records with Joe. My prayers are with them.
Two reasons. One, it was originally a British creature... with everything British in it, except for the two American actors, Brad and Janet. (Same happened with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.) Also, the studio did not believe in it, and wanted to bury it... Without marketing, it had no real chance in the theatres. But then the college scene picked it up a few years later - and the rest is history.
I think people just didn't know what to make of it (first time I saw it, I really didn't). Just one of those things that needed time to grow on people and become a cult classic.
@@bendegoose9339 Um, Richard O'Brian is a Kiwi, and the director of both the original London and LA stage productions AND the movie itself, Jim Sharman, is an Australian, as is Brian Thomson, the production designer of the movie and original stage productions. In 60s and 70s there was a massive influx of Australian and New Zealander writers, artists, actors, musicians, etc, to the UK and Rocky Horror is just one result of this golden zeitgeist.
I saw it in San Diego the first week it came out. The theater wasn't full, but it was far from empty. I saw no hype or publicity for it, just decided to go to a movie that night and looked in the paper to see what was on. You are right it wasn't on in a lot of theaters, but I went again about 10 days - 2 weeks later (different theater) and the place was packed. It was transforming into a cult that quickly.
In about 85 i had a night out with Magenta's son, we were teenagers. We both played a game called Shades, he threw his mother's pot plant on to the the lower level of his mum's place and it smashed to fuck.
You know what makes the Rocky Horror Picture show so amazing? The actor who plays riff raff is the one who wrote the entire movie and all of the songs. Before it became a movie, the actors who play Magenta, Riff Raff, and Franken Feruter (probably spelled wrong lmao) performed this show live in theaters for 3 years. Also, Tim Curry was so use to doing his own makeup that after day 1 of shooting they let him do it himself!
@@oikawasshittyknee1060 Re-reading my original comment I should've actually put "theater" instead of "Broadway" because that's actually what I meant, didn't literally mean it was on Broadway lol oops
@@dantesinfernal0 That’s pretty cool. Not sure about Britain but the movie played for years and years as the midnight movie in theaters here in the states. 🤘🏻
This movie is so dear to my heart. I was in 9th grade gym class, and there was a weird kid wearing a button that said “I can’t even think straight” this was the 90s when everything was “gay”. I pointed and laughed and said “HA HA YOU’RE A GAAAY” He said “yeah..” and he instantly became my BFF. Found out he lived right across the street from me, we had the same birthday. We became inseparable. Learned his mom was gay too and they invited me over for movie night and it was this movie. They took me to pride fest and gave me the best memories and friendship I could ever ask for. Every time I see this I think of them 🖤
I do this all the time. I did it just now. While dancing to the damn thing. I might be 64, but I've seen this so many times I know the words, the phrasing, the beats. It entertains me. Sort of startles others.
And just like *that* I'm 15 again in 1975, going to the movies with my older brother. Bugger the age restrictions! We watched it until it was banned in my country. Then we proceeded to love this film after the ban was lifted. Brother is gone now and I watch it alone on DVD, imagining the sights and smells of the movie theatre while the entire audience is singing along. What a masterpiece!
I saw it when I was 13 in 1977. It took a while to get to the RAAF Airbase Cinema in Forest Hill near Wagga NSW, Australia. What a fantastic movie. It changed my life.
I was 13, My dad had taken me, my little sister and her friend out to the drive in. The headliner was Superman The Movie, and after it was done, we all kind of sat around in the car not knowing if we were going to watch the next movie or not, but then the Lips came on the screen and my dad woke up and couldn't get us out of there fast enough!
@@flyingmerkel6did you forget? its astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll, ... that time and place is here and now, if you want to go there ...its just a jump to the left ...
For anyone that doesn't know, those are Magenta's lips and Riff Raff's voice. There's a story behind that, as well. Patricia Quinn (Magenta) wanted nothing to do with the film, at first, so Richard O'Brian (Riff Raff) did everything he could to convince her. In the end, they both agreed that as long as she got to sing this song for the opening she would do the film. All went according to plan.....until it came time to edit the film. During that process O'Brian replaced her vocals with his own.....behind her back, no less. She didn't find out about it until she watched it for the first time and by then it was too late.
@@eddienunez8076 Oh, I agree, everything is as it should be!!......BUT......he didn't have to do it in such a shady fashion. That probably hurt her more than the change being made.
Not exactly true, she didn’t want to do the film until she saw the wardrobe for it, yes she wanted to sing the song but knew all along someone else was but still did the lips for it knowing full well it was Richard O’Brien singing. There was no backhandedness. Unless she herself is lying.
Absolutely splendid. Hard to improve on. It's like layered nostalgia. The movies referenced in the song were antique and quirky to the folks who saw the film when it was new. Now I find myself looking back at myself looking back at other people who are looking back at the golden age of sci fi cinema and writing it a crazy love letter. It's like watching ancestors practice ancestor worship. Indescribably wonderful.
Patricia wanted to sing this song but Richard o’Brian said no because he was singing it, but he let her use her lips for the intro with Richard o’Brian’s voice
The play that this film is based on traditionally has Magenta's actress also be the one singing this song (check out the Original London Cast soundtrack to hear Quinn singing this song).
I'm sad of finding out how much Patricia wanted to sing this an she couldn't. If you check previous versions of this song with her on the vocals, she does an amazing job.
It’s rough because you could say it’s her song, but even from the first time I heard this song, I was mesmerized by Richard’s voice. It’s so frigging 70s and it’s perfect.
I remember the first time I played Rocky listening to the crowd roar singing this song. I was excited and still getting over a really catastrophic break up. The debauchery and pure energy of this show really helped me. And 5 years later, I find myself in the same place again.. Rocky Horror was therapy in such a raw time in my life. This year, I’M the dom. No more being a slave to my own depression. Giving into absolute pleasure, flexing harder and larger than ever. I made sure to work out extra extra hard this year. Thanks Rocky 💪
Saw this in early 1980s. In a small provincial town it was an eye opener. Way ahead of its time. People were shocked by its openness. 40 years later its still a classic.
I heard Richard was working as a dishwasher and couldn't make ends meet. Instead of getting a different job, he decided to write a rock opera about an extraterrestrial transvestite. While it seems crazy, the rest is history.
Here are some references I caught :p -Michael Reenie: British actor, perhaps best remembered for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still. -Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934. (A movie was made in 1980, but that's after RHPS.) -Claude Rains: British-American film and stage actor. He started as the invisible man in the homonym movie of 1933. -Fay Wray: Canadian-born American actress best remembered for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. -Anne Francis: American actress, as said in the lyrics, she was in the sci-fi film Forbidden Planet of 1956. -Leo G. Carroll: English actor. He played Prof. Gerald Deemer in the 1955 movie Tarantula! -Janette Scott: English actress. She started in the film The Day of the Triffids, released in 1962. -Dana Andrews: American film actor. He started in Night Of The Demon (1957). -George Pal: Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer. When Worlds Collide (1951) was produced by him. His wife was Elisabeth "Zsoka" Pal. -R.K.O: RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company. Producer Val Lewton worked into a low-budget horror unit. King Kong (1933) is one of the most important films produced by RKO.
My parents had this on VHS when I was a kid, and they kept it "hidden" so not in the tape library. However after I found it they did not stop me watching it, and I loved it. I was singing along to the songs longe before I understood what some of them meant.
Lyrics: Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still But he told us where we stand And Flash Gordon was there In silver underwear Claude Rains was The Invisible Man Then something went wrong For Fay Wray and King Kong They got caught in a celluloid jam Then at a deadly pace It Came From Outer Space And this is how the message ran... Science fiction double feature Doctor X will build a creature See androids fighting Brad and Janet Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet Woah oh, oh oh oh At the late night double feature picture show I knew Leo G. Carroll Was over a barrel When Tarantula took to the hills And I really got hot When I saw Janette Scott Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills Dana Andrews said "Prunes!" Gave him the runes And passing them used lots of skills But When Worlds Collide Said George Pal to his bride "I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills" Like a... Science fiction double feature Doctor X will build a creature See androids fighting, ugh, Brad and Janet Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet! Woah oh, oh oh oh At the late night double feature picture show I wanna go- Woah oh, oh oh oh To the late night double feature picture show By R.K.O Woah oh, oh oh oh To the late night double feature picture show In the back row! Woah oh, oh oh oh To the late night double feature picture show Oh oh oooh, mmm hmm
This song is so bizarrely haunting and evocative, for what is essentially a parody, as well as a celebration of the old black & White B-Movies of the 1940s and 50s. It has such an off-kilter resonance to it that is amazing.
I had long blond hair, so I dressed up as Riff Raff and then Put my ponytail on top for the "Banana" knot RIff has later in the film! MY Friend came in drag as a short, fat Frank 'N Furter!! LOL IT was 1987-88 and it was Epic! I've seen the film over 175 times.
There's a timeless quality to this song I feel; while layered with nostalgia and memories it also feels like time won't dull this tune and you can even listen to it without watching the rest of the movie as it perfectly captures a certain time and the concept of late night flicks in general. Truly something to cherish and keep listening to again and again through the years 💖
I think you're right, and the funny part about that is how absolutely steeped in its own time and place it was. I mean, you have to know a thing or two about 1950's-1970's movies to get any of the references, or even know what a "double feature" is.
I saw this film classic in the 1970s and was completely smitten, mesmerized. The opening song was akin to Beethoven's Ode to Joy and played homage to a period of innocence and exuberance. Pure unadulterated fun & bliss. This song sank deep into my unconscious psyche. I lived life in the 1950s and indeed went frequently to the local late-night double feature picture shows in my home town. I saw Tarantula in 1955 when it came out and had nightmares for years afterward. I saw Dana Andrews in the 1957 " Curse of the Demon " the source of which was "Casting the Runes". And it was today nearly 70 years after the fact that I happened to see Dana Andrews, white hair and wizened face, doing a guest appearance on an old re-run episode of "Love Boat". I knew that face and gradually came to his name "Dana Andrews". And once I had called up the name, "Dana Andrews" - these lyrics and music flowed forth in my mind . . Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still But he told us where we stand And Flash Gordon was there In silver underwear Claude Rains was The Invisible Man . . And I really got hot When I saw Janette Scott Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills Dana Andrews said "Prunes!" Gave him the runes And passing them used lots of skills. All I could think about was: Dana Andrews said "Prunes!" Gave him the runes and passing them used lots of skills" I agree with the comment above: Please stand for the National Anthem.
In the Summer of 1978 I was 14 and myself and a few friends took the bus to see this in a midnight show. The suburbs were different in the 70's- Our parents didn't know where we were, nor cared. It didn't occur to any one of us that the busses didn't run after midnight. So, when the movie was over, we hitchhiked home. Actually walked most of the way. The 70's in the suburbs of NYC. Can't imagine a better time to grow up.
I was a sci-fi fanatic as a child, and when I first saw Rocky horror, I was absolutely thrilled to hear all of those references. I was born in 1968 so I missed the original release of Rocky horror since I was too young and caught it in the early 80s as a teenager at the midnight movie showings. The minute I heard this song I knew this was the show for me and boy was I right!!!
Richard Obrien has a uniquely gorgous voice! I just watched this movie for the first time yesterday. When I heard this beautiful song alongside the unique visuals I knew I would absolutely love the film. I did ❤
Man this was part of my playlist when I worked at Starbucks (we hijacked the Muzak machine) among many other proudly gay songs to be sang by this confusingly cis man. My baristas sang with me.
This at the midnight movie in 1980's Utah was such a seminal part of my teenage years. So many good memories associated with this movie, that crowd, and those days. Brilliant. A masterpiece as an album, a stage musical, and a movie.
This song is so interesting. It's so easy to listen to outside of the context of rocky horror considering it's an amazing song, but when you watch it with those horrifying disembodied lips, it sends the perfect signal to the audience that this movie is going to be WEIRD! It's amazing!
I grew up in a very free minded household, I was 9 years old singing this whole album but still never actually seen the movie at that point. My mom knew I wanted to see it I knew every song by heart. The only place it was showing was a triple x theater as there matinee!!! Lmfao for real! But she checked into and was sort of sure that I wouldn’t see previews of porn if we got there after a certain time and left promptly after! So we got dressed up and brought all of our props for the show because luckily for me this was an interactive showing and people in the audience squirted water guns for song “there’s a light over in the Frankenstein place” and we had news papers and on and on all the key points acted out! My favorite of course was “time warp “ good memories and thank you mom for not being a prude!!!!!!!!!❤️✌️
This is an awesome sharing Michele. I used to lie to my parents and tell them it was a different ending every time. Thats why we had to see it every week lol. Early 80s was a time we had to be inventive. Well, lie. There was no internet so they had to root thru our stuff to find out what we were up to lol.
RHPS makes me sad now. I am sad for Tim. I am sad I didnt get it then. I miss the thrill of seeing this in theatres (often). Maybe Its projection, but I cry at most of the songs. I feel sadly sophomoric, Yet it effects me so cripplingly. How can it be so long ago. When did my youth slip by without me being in charge of it??
@@maddiemonster look at is this way, we didn't have the internet, or Computers really then, so it would have been lost to time. So maybe there is hope :)
This movie has one of the biggest cult followings of all time. It's still played in many theaters every weekend. I literally just saw it last night at the drive in. It's not the same but man is it fun.
In Criminal Minds, there was an episode called, "The Longest Night." Tim Curry starred as the Prince of Darkness Killer. He played the role masterfully! He was a complete disaster in that episode. He had nasty teeth, dirty clothes, drove a disgusting 1980 camper covered in rust and dirt. He was a complete psycho in that episode. It is my favourite Criminal Minds episode ever. I am actually looking for a Prince of Darkness camper to drive around.
Saw it live for the first time at Tampa Bay comic con this year, was so confused when they wrote a V on my head and called me a virgin, it was great. Thanks hell on heels!
I was made to wade in a pool of KY and pick out the bananas with my mouth, without leaving tooth marks. Then I had to stuff a giant size H brassiere with hot dogs lubricated in KY before a timer rang a bell. The brassiere had to be, as they put it, "plump, perky, and juicey,"by the time the timer rang. This was hard to do with lubricated hotdogs slipping everywhere and slipping out of the brassiere. There was also whip cream boobs that I had to eat the cherry nipple off the boobs without letting the cherry slip down nor damage the whip cream boobs while blindfolded. There were a few other rituals I had to do before being devirginised. After being devirginised, I got a spiked dog collar with my name on it. It is now one of my most prized possessions.
I recently saw this musical live and the girl singing this song was amazing but even better is the audience did the Ooooo's and Aaaaa's. It was magicial
1978, theatre at Ocean Beach, California. Had to start standing in line at 9:00 p.m for the midnight show. We were all drinking beer, some smoking pot, people all dressed up like the characters, by the time the show started, it was amazing. Some great moments and memories.
I remember when me and friends would dress the characters and do the dances it was awesome crazy time 45yrs ago but this movie still lives on forever in my heart ❤ ♥
I can't really explain it but this movie always puts a smile on my face and brings a mood. I can't help but be ecstatic when these songs play. I don't care about politics, I don't care about any message people attach to the film, it's just pure fun in a complete non judgemental weird atmosphere and I get lost in it every single time.
It’s hard to believe that this movie will be 45 years old this year. I hope that this will come out on 4K Blu-ray, even though the regular blu ray transfer is fantastic. It’s so good that it makes the movie look like it was made today and is a good title to show off the format.
I was obsessed with this movie when I was a teenage in the early 90's I first saw it when I was visiting relatives and they had a VHS bootleg from Japan. Apparantly, it was released on VHS from Japan long before the US. I made a copy while I was there, sure, it had Japanese subtitles, but who cared?. I played it for the first time for my mom and she was hooked from this song. She is a huge old school and B-Movie horror fan. Just from the mentions in the song and naming the movies they came from, she was good to go.
Oddly enough this movie/music helped me work through so much shit growing up. I will never be able to thank every person involved enough for their contribution of this work of art to our world.
I'll never forget going to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror and hearing everyone singing along to this together, it warmed my heart and still does ❤️
Mee too! Went to see this almost every Friday night at the Graham theater in Brooklyn. Opened my eyes. Shortly after that, I moved to the Hells Kitchen and grew up REAL FAST. Great times!!!!!!!
@@cameronkantor8224 My last showing was in 2009. It was in a small town named Story, Indiana. It was an outside viewing. What a mess we left! Where I used to reside locally, the last showing was in 2000. But I kept going to Story, Indiana and got nine more years of Rocky. The very last showing in Story was a well known event. It was going to be the last showing there. Since it was an outside showing, the disaster we left was extra huge! Some people brought in condoms filled with KY to start a fight. Super soakers filled whip cream, many blow up dolls made it to the last showing with bananas and hotdogs stuffed in their mouths. Brassiere slingshots for water balloons were common. Pie fights would break out randomly. When things, started getting too quiet, the hosts would sound a siren and start throwing all manner of hotdogs, bananas, sausages, condoms, diaphragms, dirty underwear, dog collars, sex toys and feather boas. I really miss showings. It was the only time I was social. I would break my social isolation today if I knew there was a showing. I can remain anonymous and have a great times with others!
Happy New Year... it's the first day of 2023, the sun's past the yardarm, champagne is chilling and Rocky Horror Picture Show is primed to go... 🙌🏾💋💋💋💙
I remember seeing it for the first time in 1975. I still have me playing card from that show. I cannot count the numerous times I have see and enjoyed this movie.
It's brilliant. We all had the LP when it was commercially available, but did not know what we were actually going to see. Let alone learn. This film is an important part of history. And all my nieces and nephews have been educated. It's only fare to be aware.
I'm 50 years old in the '80s we used to go to the movie theater at midnight on Friday and Saturday nights when they would play this and we would act out the parts with the toast and the water and the toilet paper. It's really unfortunate that they stole all of that history from a bunch of generations cuz this movie is full of fun and interactive stuff and was very famous and very popular you just had to be awake to partake
I've introduced a few people to Rocky Horror over the years, just as my brother did me. None of my friends over the years didn't love it. Great songs, fun movie, subversive as hell and way ahead of it's time.
First time watching this was a few years ago during a throw back day at my local theatre so I’m very happy I got to experience seeing this without expectations at a theatre. Thankfully they sold toast and everyone else brought the rest of the props so I got the full experience.
Mike, a co-worker, insisted that I meet him and friends at midnight at a local theater for the first ever showing of Rocky in San Jose in 1970-something. He was a cinephile and had been waiting for the movie's arrival for weeks. He was giddy when I found him in line at the movie house. He push me ahead of him as we waited for the doors to open and he kept saying, "Just wait, just wait until you see this movie!" Mind blown! The experience changed my cinematic appetite forever.
Please stand up for the National Anthem
Valerio Vigino 😭
Valerio Vigilo, LOL!
No, this is the World Anthem!
👏👊🍺
Starring Alfalfa’s shadow
Joe Osborn on the bass. 1937_2018
I will miss you dad.
Bless you!
@@corenecipolletti2238 thanks corene! I just heard that drummer Hal Blaine is gone too at 90. He is also on this and countless records with Joe. My prayers are with them.
@@davidosborn146 RIP. I was enjoying the bass when I read your comment. God bless.
Their talent lives on. Bless them.
He is forever immortalised with his performance he gave us all.
Patricia Quinn literally has the most iconic lips in cinematic history
Where if anywhere has Halloween 🎃 showing in OK... like public
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_and_lips_logo
And pretty good teeth for a 1970s Englishwoman!
*Linda Lovelace has entered the chat
@@denverdubois5835 She's from Northern Ireland.
Amazing how a movie that like totally flopped when it came out in 1975, became such a huge success in the years to follow!
It's just magnificent isn't it? 😊
Two reasons. One, it was originally a British creature... with everything British in it, except for the two American actors, Brad and Janet. (Same happened with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.) Also, the studio did not believe in it, and wanted to bury it... Without marketing, it had no real chance in the theatres. But then the college scene picked it up a few years later - and the rest is history.
I think people just didn't know what to make of it (first time I saw it, I really didn't). Just one of those things that needed time to grow on people and become a cult classic.
@@bendegoose9339 Um, Richard O'Brian is a Kiwi, and the director of both the original London and LA stage productions AND the movie itself, Jim Sharman, is an Australian, as is Brian Thomson, the production designer of the movie and original stage productions. In 60s and 70s there was a massive influx of Australian and New Zealander writers, artists, actors, musicians, etc, to the UK and Rocky Horror is just one result of this golden zeitgeist.
I saw it in San Diego the first week it came out. The theater wasn't full, but it was far from empty. I saw no hype or publicity for it, just decided to go to a movie that night and looked in the paper to see what was on. You are right it wasn't on in a lot of theaters, but I went again about 10 days - 2 weeks later (different theater) and the place was packed. It was transforming into a cult that quickly.
Fun fact: the lips are Magenta's and the singer is Riff Raff
Queen Rose ...is it true ?
Queen Rose ...i recognize riff raff's voice. ..i didnt know for magenta. ..thanks.
You're welcome
This is true.
In about 85 i had a night out with Magenta's son, we were teenagers. We both played a game called Shades, he threw his mother's pot plant on to the the lower level of his mum's place and it smashed to fuck.
Don't dream it. Be it.
This was my pipe dream quote in my High School annual in 1979!
In just 7 days......
Brooke Roeder you're a democrat.
I will never leave planet earth
@@ophiolatreia93 Takes one to know one.
You know what makes the Rocky Horror Picture show so amazing? The actor who plays riff raff is the one who wrote the entire movie and all of the songs. Before it became a movie, the actors who play Magenta, Riff Raff, and Franken Feruter (probably spelled wrong lmao) performed this show live in theaters for 3 years. Also, Tim Curry was so use to doing his own makeup that after day 1 of shooting they let him do it himself!
Close: Sweet Transvestite was written by O'Brian and Tim Curry
@@oikawasshittyknee1060 Re-reading my original comment I should've actually put "theater" instead of "Broadway" because that's actually what I meant, didn't literally mean it was on Broadway lol oops
It's longest run in America was 9 months. It had a nearly 3,000 show run in Great Britain.
@@dantesinfernal0 That’s pretty cool. Not sure about Britain but the movie played for years and years as the midnight movie in theaters here in the states. 🤘🏻
@@TheoneGodfather Every year here in Zürich. At the Dynamo Club near the Mainstation Zürich. It is an Adventure :) Uhh it gets me positive chills.
This movie is so dear to my heart.
I was in 9th grade gym class, and there was a weird kid wearing a button that said “I can’t even think straight” this was the 90s when everything was “gay”. I pointed and laughed and said “HA HA YOU’RE A GAAAY”
He said “yeah..” and he instantly became my BFF. Found out he lived right across the street from me, we had the same birthday. We became inseparable. Learned his mom was gay too and they invited me over for movie night and it was this movie. They took me to pride fest and gave me the best memories and friendship I could ever ask for. Every time I see this I think of them 🖤
this is so sweet
omg i wish this would happen to me
@Trantor The Troll ur ignorant
@Trantor The Troll I like your comment. It shows you care. Peace!
@Trantor The Troll why would he die of aids? That’s a pretty stupid thing to say. He’s on my FB and he moved across the country after high school.. 🤨
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, god said "let there be lips" and they were good!
And the God wasn't the narcissistic torture God they call Yahweh!
lmao
And they gave good head!
Stealing for a meme
@@lakeprairieag "Is this Lips ?" :P
Every so often I just have to sing this out loud. My apologies to anyone who has heard me.
444 Thu
I’m with you bro.
My 21 year old nieces rolls her eyes
Sorry no apologies
I do this all the time. I did it just now. While dancing to the damn thing. I might be 64, but I've seen this so many times I know the words, the phrasing, the beats. It entertains me. Sort of startles others.
SAMEEE
Singing this as I type. ;)
Still one of the greatest opening numbers in history
And just like *that* I'm 15 again in 1975, going to the movies with my older brother. Bugger the age restrictions! We watched it until it was banned in my country. Then we proceeded to love this film after the ban was lifted. Brother is gone now and I watch it alone on DVD, imagining the sights and smells of the movie theatre while the entire audience is singing along. What a masterpiece!
I saw it when I was 13 in 1977. It took a while to get to the RAAF Airbase Cinema in Forest Hill near Wagga NSW, Australia. What a fantastic movie. It changed my life.
Why was it banned?
I was 13, My dad had taken me, my little sister and her friend out to the drive in. The headliner was Superman The Movie, and after it was done, we all kind of sat around in the car not knowing if we were going to watch the next movie or not, but then the Lips came on the screen and my dad woke up and couldn't get us out of there fast enough!
I love Richard O'Brien's talent and voice, if it was not for him The Rocky Horror Picture Show would of never existed.
If not for Tim Curry’s iconic performance, the whole thing would have fallen apart and never become a cult classic. 💋👠🎩
Yes that could be true. Tim Curry is a great actor and a top performer, but Richard wrote the Show and the Music.
Richard O’Brien is actually a transvestite. Listen to don’t dream it be it. He wanted to be just the same as fey Ray dig it
Yea and he is also married to a woman.
Joe Rodriguez Richard now identifies as transgender and takes female hormones. I wish Richard would write another explosive and subversive musical! 😁
The best movie ever
Agreed. It is the mother of all modern comedies.
Somehow it manages that trick. Definitely of a time & place that's not coming back
@@flyingmerkel6did you forget? its astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll,
... that time and place is here and now, if you want to go there ...its just a jump to the left ...
@@rileyparks8864 Thanks for that.
My all time favorite
For anyone that doesn't know, those are Magenta's lips and Riff Raff's voice. There's a story behind that, as well. Patricia Quinn (Magenta) wanted nothing to do with the film, at first, so Richard O'Brian (Riff Raff) did everything he could to convince her. In the end, they both agreed that as long as she got to sing this song for the opening she would do the film. All went according to plan.....until it came time to edit the film. During that process O'Brian replaced her vocals with his own.....behind her back, no less. She didn't find out about it until she watched it for the first time and by then it was too late.
It was the right thing to do.
@@eddienunez8076 Oh, I agree, everything is as it should be!!......BUT......he didn't have to do it in such a shady fashion. That probably hurt her more than the change being made.
@@pustulio81 i gotcha yeah that was a bitch move on his part.
@@pustulio81 especially because she loved the song so much
Not exactly true, she didn’t want to do the film until she saw the wardrobe for it, yes she wanted to sing the song but knew all along someone else was but still did the lips for it knowing full well it was Richard O’Brien singing. There was no backhandedness. Unless she herself is lying.
Absolutely splendid. Hard to improve on.
It's like layered nostalgia. The movies referenced in the song were antique and quirky to the folks who saw the film when it was new. Now I find myself looking back at myself looking back at other people who are looking back at the golden age of sci fi cinema and writing it a crazy love letter. It's like watching ancestors practice ancestor worship. Indescribably wonderful.
Forbidden Planet is a great movie its special effects are even very good considering when it was made.
Exactly
I like what you say...don't dream it be here
Amazing how this went from breaking barriers 2 nostalgia.
Beautifully said, Jack. My favorite comment in this thread so far 💜
Patricia wanted to sing this song but Richard o’Brian said no because he was singing it, but he let her use her lips for the intro with Richard o’Brian’s voice
The play that this film is based on traditionally has Magenta's actress also be the one singing this song (check out the Original London Cast soundtrack to hear Quinn singing this song).
I think it's meant to add to the movie's gender-bending theme - a male voice with female lips sets the tone for the film
I'm sad of finding out how much Patricia wanted to sing this an she couldn't. If you check previous versions of this song with her on the vocals, she does an amazing job.
interesting compromise
It’s rough because you could say it’s her song, but even from the first time I heard this song, I was mesmerized by Richard’s voice. It’s so frigging 70s and it’s perfect.
I remember the first time I played Rocky listening to the crowd roar singing this song. I was excited and still getting over a really catastrophic break up. The debauchery and pure energy of this show really helped me. And 5 years later, I find myself in the same place again.. Rocky Horror was therapy in such a raw time in my life.
This year, I’M the dom. No more being a slave to my own depression. Giving into absolute pleasure, flexing harder and larger than ever.
I made sure to work out extra extra hard this year.
Thanks Rocky 💪
You've got this! You're amazing! :)
hey dave dawson you are a god among men
Life is futile.
YES KING!
Peter Hinson would be so pleased. Never let RHPS stop helping you escape, live and enjoy.
"I've never asked for anything" (Magenta) "And you shall receive it, in ABUNDANCE !" (Frankenfurter) - sheer class.
What's a bun dance?
Saw this in early 1980s. In a small provincial town it was an eye opener. Way ahead of its time. People were shocked by its openness. 40 years later its still a classic.
If you dont absolutely love this movie we cant be friends.
I heard Richard was working as a dishwasher and couldn't make ends meet. Instead of getting a different job, he decided to write a rock opera about an extraterrestrial transvestite. While it seems crazy, the rest is history.
Those lips forever a part of cinema history 💋
God Bless Patricia Quinn!!
Immortal. 😊
Here are some references I caught :p
-Michael Reenie: British actor, perhaps best remembered for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
-Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934. (A movie was made in 1980, but that's after RHPS.)
-Claude Rains: British-American film and stage actor. He started as the invisible man in the homonym movie of 1933.
-Fay Wray: Canadian-born American actress best remembered for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong.
-Anne Francis: American actress, as said in the lyrics, she was in the sci-fi film Forbidden Planet of 1956.
-Leo G. Carroll: English actor. He played Prof. Gerald Deemer in the 1955 movie Tarantula!
-Janette Scott: English actress. She started in the film The Day of the Triffids, released in 1962.
-Dana Andrews: American film actor. He started in Night Of The Demon (1957).
-George Pal: Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer. When Worlds Collide (1951) was produced by him. His wife was Elisabeth "Zsoka" Pal.
-R.K.O: RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company. Producer Val Lewton worked into a low-budget horror unit. King Kong (1933) is one of the most important films produced by RKO.
I'm 17 and I totally love movies and I'm seeing such information . Moreover you missed something
@@MistOfDeSade It wasn't meant to be everything, that person was just listing off as much as they could. Many good classic films in there.
Isnt Anne Francis also in Deep Throat 2?
They also say "When World's Collide" which is the name of a 1951 sci-fi movie
But what about Brad and Janet?…. Oh. Never mind… 😂
No, but this is great, thank you for the info! I didn’t know who any of the names used were!
My parents had this on VHS when I was a kid, and they kept it "hidden" so not in the tape library. However after I found it they did not stop me watching it, and I loved it. I was singing along to the songs longe before I understood what some of them meant.
Lyrics:
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran...
Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Woah oh, oh oh oh
At the late night double feature picture show
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said "Prunes!"
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But When Worlds Collide
Said George Pal to his bride
"I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills"
Like a...
Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting, ugh, Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet!
Woah oh, oh oh oh
At the late night double feature picture show
I wanna go-
Woah oh, oh oh oh
To the late night double feature picture show
By R.K.O
Woah oh, oh oh oh
To the late night double feature picture show
In the back row!
Woah oh, oh oh oh
To the late night double feature picture show
Oh oh oooh, mmm hmm
Thank you. It's brilliant.
Thank you.
We know the words.
Paul NOT The Real McCartney in this version they don’t say ugh that’s only in the Ivy Levan version.
Thanks for the Lyrics.
This song is so bizarrely haunting and evocative, for what is essentially a parody, as well as a celebration of the old black & White B-Movies of the 1940s and 50s. It has such an off-kilter resonance to it that is amazing.
Where i grew up, we had outside showings and i dressed up as Frank n Furter with the green lab coat and my friend dressed as Riff Raff
I had long blond hair, so I dressed up as Riff Raff and then Put my ponytail on top for the "Banana" knot RIff has later in the film! MY Friend came in drag as a short, fat Frank 'N Furter!! LOL IT was 1987-88 and it was Epic! I've seen the film over 175 times.
I didn't dress at all!
35 years ago my dad took me at theater to watch this movie. He died 6 years ago. The movie is still in my heart. Thanks, dad... ❤️😊🎉😍✌️
Richard O Brian has such an amazing voice this song is still amazing ✌
No kidding. It's a great way to ignite the fuse on this well loved classic.
One of those rare Dimond movies. Soundtrack is incredible.
I’m still in disbelief that a dude can sound so much like a girl.
There's a timeless quality to this song I feel; while layered with nostalgia and memories it also feels like time won't dull this tune and you can even listen to it without watching the rest of the movie as it perfectly captures a certain time and the concept of late night flicks in general. Truly something to cherish and keep listening to again and again through the years 💖
🤍
I think you're right, and the funny part about that is how absolutely steeped in its own time and place it was. I mean, you have to know a thing or two about 1950's-1970's movies to get any of the references, or even know what a "double feature" is.
Riff Raff's voice is a fusion of John Lennon and Alice Cooper...
I can hear that.
I saw this film classic in the 1970s and was completely smitten, mesmerized. The opening song was akin to Beethoven's Ode to Joy and played homage to a period of innocence and exuberance. Pure unadulterated fun & bliss. This song sank deep into my unconscious psyche. I lived life in the 1950s and indeed went frequently to the local late-night double feature picture shows in my home town. I saw Tarantula in 1955 when it came out and had nightmares for years afterward. I saw Dana Andrews in the 1957 " Curse of the Demon " the source of which was "Casting the Runes". And it was today nearly 70 years after the fact that I happened to see Dana Andrews, white hair and wizened face, doing a guest appearance on an old re-run episode of "Love Boat". I knew that face and gradually came to his name "Dana Andrews". And once I had called up the name, "Dana Andrews" - these lyrics and music flowed forth in my mind . .
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
. .
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said "Prunes!"
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills.
All I could think about was:
Dana Andrews said "Prunes!" Gave him the runes and passing them used lots of skills"
I agree with the comment above:
Please stand for the National Anthem.
In the Summer of 1978 I was 14 and myself and a few friends took the bus to see this in a midnight show. The suburbs were different in the 70's- Our parents didn't know where we were, nor cared. It didn't occur to any one of us that the busses didn't run after midnight. So, when the movie was over, we hitchhiked home. Actually walked most of the way.
The 70's in the suburbs of NYC. Can't imagine a better time to grow up.
I was a sci-fi fanatic as a child, and when I first saw Rocky horror, I was absolutely thrilled to hear all of those references. I was born in 1968 so I missed the original release of Rocky horror since I was too young and caught it in the early 80s as a teenager at the midnight movie showings. The minute I heard this song I knew this was the show for me and boy was I right!!!
Richard Obrien has a uniquely gorgous voice! I just watched this movie for the first time yesterday. When I heard this beautiful song alongside the unique visuals I knew I would absolutely love the film. I did ❤
Me too! They made me go on stage 😭
I was singing this at work and someone said "that's hella gay my guy". Im gonna be Dr frank for Halloween and sing sweet transvestite
Eh why wait for Halloween franknfurter all year round ✨🦗🦟🦗🦟🦟
If I had an authority on gay at work, I'd be sure to call upon their expertise on a daily basis.
Power move
Man this was part of my playlist when I worked at Starbucks (we hijacked the Muzak machine) among many other proudly gay songs to be sang by this confusingly cis man. My baristas sang with me.
I had this movie memorized by the age of 13. Went to my first show at 11. Yea I had a good brother. He played Brad.
What a great film this is! Like an old friend,never ceases to bring a smile.
This at the midnight movie in 1980's Utah was such a seminal part of my teenage years. So many good memories associated with this movie, that crowd, and those days. Brilliant. A masterpiece as an album, a stage musical, and a movie.
This song is so interesting. It's so easy to listen to outside of the context of rocky horror considering it's an amazing song, but when you watch it with those horrifying disembodied lips, it sends the perfect signal to the audience that this movie is going to be WEIRD! It's amazing!
I listen to this in my car on its own all the time. Such a great song.
Climbed a tree, put the recently clipped cable in the HBO do-dads, and watched it on channel six (Long Island) around 1977. Loved it.
Hard to believe we were ever that young.
The greatest opening of a film..Absolutely brilliant..Like no other!! :-)
Agreed. It will never be surpassed.
I grew up in a very free minded household, I was 9 years old singing this whole album but still never actually seen the movie at that point. My mom knew I wanted to see it I knew every song by heart. The only place it was showing was a triple x theater as there matinee!!! Lmfao for real! But she checked into and was sort of sure that I wouldn’t see previews of porn if we got there after a certain time and left promptly after! So we got dressed up and brought all of our props for the show because luckily for me this was an interactive showing and people in the audience squirted water guns for song “there’s a light over in the Frankenstein place” and we had news papers and on and on all the key points acted out! My favorite of course was “time warp “ good memories and thank you mom for not being a prude!!!!!!!!!❤️✌️
This is an awesome sharing Michele. I used to lie to my parents and tell them it was a different ending every time. Thats why we had to see it every week lol. Early 80s was a time we had to be inventive. Well, lie. There was no internet so they had to root thru our stuff to find out what we were up to lol.
One of the best musicals. There are some really beautiful tunes: I'm Going Home, Superheroes.
RHPS makes me sad now. I am sad for Tim. I am sad I didnt get it then. I miss the thrill of seeing this in theatres (often). Maybe Its projection, but I cry at most of the songs. I feel sadly sophomoric, Yet it effects me so cripplingly. How can it be so long ago. When did my youth slip by without me being in charge of it??
I know. I want to go back. Time passes and diminishes everything.
@@maddiemonster look at is this way, we didn't have the internet, or Computers really then, so it would have been lost to time. So maybe there is hope :)
This movie has one of the biggest cult followings of all time. It's still played in many theaters every weekend. I literally just saw it last night at the drive in. It's not the same but man is it fun.
My friend showed me this movie around 92 but by then they were cutting back on showings so I never got the chance to experience it.
I like turtles
Whenever Forbidden Planet gets mentioned, I immediately think of this...thanks Mr. O'Brien
The nostalgia
Timeless and elegant! I'm a massive Tim Curry fan. The beauty of the clip is eternal. 😈
Dana Pidd, I agree. Tim Curry is other worldly in this movie, it's hard to put into words just how amazing he played Frank-N-Furter.
In Criminal Minds, there was an episode called, "The Longest Night." Tim Curry starred as the Prince of Darkness Killer. He played the role masterfully! He was a complete disaster in that episode. He had nasty teeth, dirty clothes, drove a disgusting 1980 camper covered in rust and dirt. He was a complete psycho in that episode. It is my favourite Criminal Minds episode ever. I am actually looking for a Prince of Darkness camper to drive around.
That's a very good way of describing it
Sadly Tim Curry suffered a stroke and is in wheelchair.. He's still handsome as ever!!
This damn song fr puts me in a happy place...sigh....
Me and a bunch of teenage mates went to see a midnight showing, we actually thought it was a horror movie...cherrys well and truly popped..
Saw it live for the first time at Tampa Bay comic con this year, was so confused when they wrote a V on my head and called me a virgin, it was great. Thanks hell on heels!
I bought a virgin in a bid war, I won and I gave her 20 dollars!
Cool
Same
I was made to wade in a pool of KY and pick out the bananas with my mouth, without leaving tooth marks. Then I had to stuff a giant size H brassiere with hot dogs lubricated in KY before a timer rang a bell. The brassiere had to be, as they put it, "plump, perky, and juicey,"by the time the timer rang. This was hard to do with lubricated hotdogs slipping everywhere and slipping out of the brassiere. There was also whip cream boobs that I had to eat the cherry nipple off the boobs without letting the cherry slip down nor damage the whip cream boobs while blindfolded. There were a few other rituals I had to do before being devirginised. After being devirginised, I got a spiked dog collar with my name on it. It is now one of my most prized possessions.
@@indridcold8433 where was this at?
I recently saw this musical live and the girl singing this song was amazing but even better is the audience did the Ooooo's and Aaaaa's. It was magicial
1990. Thank you Shannon and Maggie. Among my fondest memories!😻
1978, theatre at Ocean Beach, California. Had to start standing in line at 9:00 p.m for the midnight show. We were all drinking beer, some smoking pot, people all dressed up like the characters, by the time the show started, it was amazing. Some great moments and memories.
I was there too!! Every Friday and Saturday night in OB. Got so stoned waiting in to get in, took me half the film to come round! Happy days for sure
I remember when me and friends would dress the characters and do the dances it was awesome crazy time 45yrs ago but this movie still lives on forever in my heart ❤ ♥
Love the song. Love the film. Love the theatre show. Timeless.
🤍
Riff-Raff had a Cool singing voice! Great film!!
*Still AMAZING, after all these years.. I still get goose bumps!*
I get completely covered with them as soon as I hear the first note.
Best intro ever !
And made even, better by raunchy Audience participation! 🤪 Especially here in NYC!
I heard it the last time three years ago and still got 95 % of the lyrics. Truly a remarkable song.
I saw this live and I will never be the same again
I remember watching this movie for the first time. It's honestly something special & one of my favorites tbh.
Work of genius. Entertaining from start to end with some stellar performances. It bends my head whenever I watch it 🤪
Could watch this movie all day, actually i have.
Back when the world made sense and everything was still possible. I love you, Brandon Bristol. RIP, my love.
I love the Rocky Horror Picture Show!
I can't really explain it but this movie always puts a smile on my face and brings a mood. I can't help but be ecstatic when these songs play. I don't care about politics, I don't care about any message people attach to the film, it's just pure fun in a complete non judgemental weird atmosphere and I get lost in it every single time.
It's pure escapism...
Another fun fact:
Richard O'Brian voiced the Dad on Phineas and Ferb...
Was also in Ever After with Drew Barrymore!
This intro in the midnight matinee was so much fun seeing in college. Went quite a few times and it just never lost its magic 😍💜❣️
It’s hard to believe that this movie will be 45 years old this year. I hope that this will come out on 4K Blu-ray, even though the regular blu ray transfer is fantastic. It’s so good that it makes the movie look like it was made today and is a good title to show off the format.
I was obsessed with this movie when I was a teenage in the early 90's I first saw it when I was visiting relatives and they had a VHS bootleg from Japan. Apparantly, it was released on VHS from Japan long before the US. I made a copy while I was there, sure, it had Japanese subtitles, but who cared?. I played it for the first time for my mom and she was hooked from this song. She is a huge old school and B-Movie horror fan. Just from the mentions in the song and naming the movies they came from, she was good to go.
Oddly enough this movie/music helped me work through so much shit growing up. I will never be able to thank every person involved enough for their contribution of this work of art to our world.
Loved it since ‘76!!!!!!!
I'll never forget going to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror and hearing everyone singing along to this together, it warmed my heart and still does ❤️
Mee too! Went to see this almost every Friday night at the Graham theater in Brooklyn. Opened my eyes. Shortly after that, I moved to the Hells Kitchen and grew up REAL FAST. Great times!!!!!!!
The 1st time i saw this was in 1979 in New Brunswick, N.J. - still love it!!!
So crazy seeing this comment-- Just saw it for the 1st time tonight in New Brunswick NJ too at Rutgers University!!!!!! Exactly 40 years later!
@@cameronkantor8224 My last showing was in 2009. It was in a small town named Story, Indiana. It was an outside viewing. What a mess we left! Where I used to reside locally, the last showing was in 2000. But I kept going to Story, Indiana and got nine more years of Rocky. The very last showing in Story was a well known event. It was going to be the last showing there. Since it was an outside showing, the disaster we left was extra huge! Some people brought in condoms filled with KY to start a fight. Super soakers filled whip cream, many blow up dolls made it to the last showing with bananas and hotdogs stuffed in their mouths. Brassiere slingshots for water balloons were common. Pie fights would break out randomly. When things, started getting too quiet, the hosts would sound a siren and start throwing all manner of hotdogs, bananas, sausages, condoms, diaphragms, dirty underwear, dog collars, sex toys and feather boas. I really miss showings. It was the only time I was social. I would break my social isolation today if I knew there was a showing. I can remain anonymous and have a great times with others!
I saw this for the first time this month, and I was blown away by the movie and the die hard fans! I want to see it again!
Played in a movie theater in Germany for 10 years, party fun time missed.❤
Ahh....Great movie....and all those 1950s Sci-Fi B movies... fantastic...they don't make them like that anymore.
I keep coming back to this song. It never gets old
Awesome never get tired of the movie and music love ya rocky:)
This brings back sooo many memories of doing the shadow cast, amazing movie !
I have always loved this song! The best opener ever! Long live Rocky Horror!👍👍👍🧡🧡🧡🖤🖤🖤🧡🧡🧡
Happy New Year... it's the first day of 2023, the sun's past the yardarm, champagne is chilling and Rocky Horror Picture Show is primed to go... 🙌🏾💋💋💋💙
I had an 14 hrs flight to Doha, Qatar. I had this album downloaded to my phone. I had to listen to this song 20 times. 😂
I remember seeing it for the first time in 1975. I still have me playing card from that show. I cannot count the numerous times I have see and enjoyed this movie.
It's brilliant. We all had the LP when it was commercially available, but did not know what we were actually going to see. Let alone learn. This film is an important part of history. And all my nieces and nephews have been educated. It's only fare to be aware.
And in 2018 this movie is still the BEST EVER!
cutesmileb00tay you are in the know !
2019 still best
As well as 2020😁
cutesmileb00tay Agreed
This song still gets me in the shoulders; I feel lots of hurt leaving me, stress I guess. Makes me feel younger and older at the same time. Oooooh ...
Wow, that's so beautiful. You should just let it all flow out.🤍
I'm 50 years old in the '80s we used to go to the movie theater at midnight on Friday and Saturday nights when they would play this and we would act out the parts with the toast and the water and the toilet paper. It's really unfortunate that they stole all of that history from a bunch of generations cuz this movie is full of fun and interactive stuff and was very famous and very popular you just had to be awake to partake
What do you mean it was stolen?? People still go to midnight showings of RHPS :)
The perfect mood setter for coming to or going from a picture show.
Even after all these years I still have the dirty alternative lyrics memorized
I have forgotten some of them, I really wish things would open back up so I could go see RHPS in person again..I miss it..
What alternative lyrics?
Such great times we had in the 70's I must of seen this 350 times or more. Miss those times.
I watch it at home, now. Yes, I miss "our" decade. Rock n roll all night, party every day.
I’ll never be able describe what this movie means to me ❤
Neither me
I've introduced a few people to Rocky Horror over the years, just as my brother did me.
None of my friends over the years didn't love it.
Great songs, fun movie, subversive as hell and way ahead of it's time.
this is by far the best version
First time watching this was a few years ago during a throw back day at my local theatre so I’m very happy I got to experience seeing this without expectations at a theatre. Thankfully they sold toast and everyone else brought the rest of the props so I got the full experience.
Mike, a co-worker, insisted that I meet him and friends at midnight at a local theater for the first ever showing of Rocky in San Jose in 1970-something. He was a cinephile and had been waiting for the movie's arrival for weeks. He was giddy when I found him in line at the movie house. He push me ahead of him as we waited for the doors to open and he kept saying, "Just wait, just wait until you see this movie!" Mind blown! The experience changed my cinematic appetite forever.
1976 12x im Kino gesehen. 2022 im August wieder im Kino gesehen. Gleiche Begeisterung. Toll.
Live noch besser