One by one the wild men of rock are being captured in biopics. Elvis is next

There's an epidemic going on - and I like it! With the huge success of Bryan Singer'slast year, there were bound to be more of the same - musical biopics charting the course of some yob's ascent to stardom, their struggle to contain it, inevitable fall from grace and eventual redemption.

And since when has Hollywood ever let a successful formula fade gently into the sunset? Prepare for an onslaught. I can't wait to see the final film, despite the fact that I already know the story: star rises, star gets sidetracked by success, drink, drugs, women and unsavoury hangers-on, star finds love, star looks for redemption … but it's too late.about Johnny Cash, which was a box- office hit and won Reese Witherspoon the Best Actress Oscar for her role as June Carter in 2006.

I'm glad that these stories are being made into film. The latest lot of them mark the end of an era — namely, the era of the old white, male, drug-abusing, fast-living, stadium-filling, groupie-abusing, strutting, strumming rock star, equally at home on the stage, often half drunk or drugged out in front of millions with just a guitar or a piano and his voice, as he was fronting a million-dollar-production stage and crew.

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