Mayor of the Sunset Strip
The Monkees to Coldplay, Rodney Bingenheimer - a.k.a. Rodney on the ROQ - has reigned over the Los Angeles music scene for over two decades. A constantly evolving fixture as rock fan, journalist, promoter, club owner and radio DJ on KROQ, Bingenheimer..
18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
12 February 1939, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 December 1945, Manchester, England, UK
21 July 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 August 1954, Paddington, London, England, UK
26 December 1939, New York City, New York, USA
20 September 1961, Wayne, New Jersey, USA
9 March 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
9 January 1950, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1955, Orange County, California, USA
30 November 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 January 1965, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
31 October 1966, Rangoon, Burma
1 February 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
15 July 1946, Tucson, Arizona, USA
17 October 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 July 1964, San Francisco, California, USA
1966, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
20 June 1942, Inglewood, California, USA
25 May 1963, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
16 February 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA
8 June 1940, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
January 15, 2006
By the end, I felt neither happy nor sad for Rodney. I enjoyed being in his presence for 90 minutes, but I can't exactly agree that he has a magnetic personality.
May 21, 2004
Captures Bingenheimer in all his celeb-fondling glory. But it's a forlorn sight, one the film doesn't turn away from as it arcs from giddy inclusion to lonely pathos.
April 30, 2004
Occasionally laughable, often sad, and profoundly evocative of the way we live now, adrift in a culture saturated with celebrity and obsessed by fame.
November 14, 2005
too much in awe of subject matter
July 05, 2008
a great doc but sad as hell
August 10, 2004
Has a commercial reach that goes beyond local hero worship thanks in part to an all-star lineup of interviewees, including Cher, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Gwen Stefani and Courtney Love, to name just a few confirmed Rod-heads.
May 06, 2004
Creepily entertaining.
October 26, 2007
A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it.
April 30, 2004
At first a wryly comic study of a real-life, shag-topped Zelig ... Hickenlooper's nuanced documentary shifts into far deeper and darker emotional territory once it starts revealing Bingenheimer's heart-wrenching backstory.
April 28, 2005
Wistful oddball documentary by George Hickenlooper.
April 30, 2004
Feels like an elegy for an aging rock pixie.
