Tribute to Get Crazy, Pt. 1:"A Deathbed Request"

In 1983, an extremely significant musical comedy was released entitled Get Crazy. It remains significant not for it's acting or writing, but for its cast: predominantly rock stars and actors portraying rock stars. Among them is Lou Reed, the members of Fear, Malcolm McDowell playing a Mick Jagger-type singer, as well as cameos from Fabian, Bobby Freeman, Howard Kaylan and others.

The story concerns the owner of the Saturn Theater, one Max Wolfe. Max has a heart attack while organizing the Saturn's New Year's Eve celebration and, fearing this year may be his last, decides to make this celebration a major blowout. To this end, he contacts a faded rock star known only as Auden to appear at the Saturn. Auden hasn't left his apartment for 6 years (his apartment being an exact replica of the cover of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home).

In this first installment, all of the Lou Reed scenes have been spliced together apart from the closing number (I'll get to that later).

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