Confessions of a Pop Performer
1975 film by Norman Cohen
Confessions of a Pop Performer (also known as Timothy Lea's Confessions of a Pop Performer) is a 1975 British sex-farce film directed by Norman Cohen and starring Robin Askwith and Anthony Booth. It was written by Christopher Wood based on his novel Confessions from the Pop Scene. It is the second instalment in the Confessions series of films and continues the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea.
Plot
Sidney overhears a band in his local pub and aspires to be their manager, not so ably assisted by his brother-in-law, Timmy, both still window cleaning for a living. They rename the band Kipper and after a misfortune, Timmy joins the line-up and many sexual encounters follow as a result. Unfortunately, Timmy's natural talent is more mayhem than rock star and disaster ensues of mostly the semi-clothed kind.
Cast
Soundtrack
Confessions of a Pop Performer was the only film in the series to spawn a soundtrack album (Polydor 2383350), with musical numbers produced by Ed Welch, and credited to the film's fictional groups Kipper and The Climax Sisters, the latter played by Diane Langton and Linda Regan in the film, although Sue Martine provides Regan's singing voice. All lead vocals for Kipper were sung by Maynard Williams. The album also includes music from Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) and in-character ‘Timmy Chat’ from Robin Askwith
Side 1
"Confessions of Timmy Tea (Three's a Crowd)"
"Timmy Chat" (Robin Askwith)
"The Clapham" (Kipper)
"Oh Sha La La" (Kipper)
"Accidents will Happen" (Kipper)
"Timmy Chat" (Robin Askwith)
"I Need You (like a hole in the head!)" (The Climax Sisters)
"Kipper" (Kipper)
"Timmy Chat" (Robin Askwith)
Side 2
"Hell of a Fuss" (Teddy Palmer and the Rumble Band)
"Pop Performer Medley ("Fire and Foam", "See Though Jazz", "The Crash", "Timmy Goes Shopping", "Theme for Truncheon and Helmet")
"Timmy Chat" (Robin Askwith)
"This is your Life" (Three's a Crowd)
"Charlie Snowgarden" (Sam Sklair)
"Timmy Chat" (Robin Askwith)
"Confessions of Timmy Tea (reprise)" (Three's a Crowd)
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin said "Creaky gags, overly familiar slapstick routines, sniggering innuendo, grimly leaden mugging and a nervously regular injection of titillating sequences on the lines of the average German sex comedy: the follow-up to the huge box-office success of Confessions of a Window Cleaner is everything one has come to dread in British comedy. With hindsight, there seems to be a certain inevitability about this crossing of the Carry On series (now well into middle age) with the ethos of the working class anti-heroes that emerged in the early Sixties: Sidney James has found his younger alter ego in the charmless Robin Askwith, a kind of callow reductio ad absurdum of the early Albert Finney/Tom Courtenay characters.
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