Ongoing History Daily: Movie cameos

Unexpectedly seeing your favourite band in a movie can sometimes eclipse the flick itself. These are some of the cameos that brought rock to the silver screen.

Want to see Josh Homme playing hair metal in a giant afro? The Queens of the Stone Age frontman appeared in the comedy Hot Rod in 2007, doing just that.

Jack White also made a comedy cameo in 2007 – he played a karate-chopping Elvis Presley in Walk Hard.

For horror comedy fans, The Offspring singer Dexter Holland has his head comically torn apart as the band performs in 1999’s Idle Hands.

And finally, Blink 182 appeared in the original American Pie, also in ’99, when they were at their height with the Enema of the State album. They didn’t do much more than ogle at a computer screen, but they fit the movie well. But Travis Barker probably wasn’t happy with the appearance. He was accidentally credited as Scott Raynor, Blink’s previous drummer.