for me and a disappointing sequel to the successful and breezy that will be the day a the bright young scallywag jim maclaine ( david essex ) somewhat improbably try his luck in the rock industry only to crash and burn by the end have live the rock dream to the bitter end and along the way cram into the narrative a many rock clichés a you can think of . so we get the inevitable musical difference which cause him to leave his band the stray cat and encounter with groupie and strain relationship with the estranged wife and son he leave behind and his rise to solo mega stardom and eventual retreat to a drug fill existence lead to the inevitable downbeat conclusion . rock fan might derive fun from the peripheral character purely coincidental resemblance to any live person and a the legend go and with a foreign intellectual interfere girlfriend ( yoko ono . ) and old style matey and but sexually ambivalent manager ( brian epstein . ) and loudmouth and money obsess american manager ( allan klein ) and as well a essex character own career path which seem to echo jim morrison of the door ( who also die in seclusion in continental europe ) and but the situation be too conventional and predictable to really engage . on the act front and essex limitation be expose and he fail to draw in the viewer and unlike his lighter playing in that will be the day and although more experienced actor like adam faith and larry hagman get more to chew on in their role . another weak point be the original music and ( a failing also of the much later dreamgirls ) which especially when set against contemporary classic track by the who and kink and mama and papa and to name but a few and be sorely lack in catchiness and leave you wonder just how the stray cat actually get to the top of the chart . this be slightly surprising give that the musical director here be the talented dave edmunds and whose own solo career abound in recreation of mid 60 pop and rock . ironically and trivia fan and edmunds in the 80 successfully produce the popular rockabilly band the stray cat and best know for runaway boy and stray cat strut . in the end an overlong and over pretentious movie and evidence if it be need and that the best way to portray rock star excess be with parody and e. g. the rutles and of course this be spinal tap .