Are a Drag Rocky Horror Picture Show", and "Rainbow Connection"). The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five characters from the musicals represented in song: a member of "A Chorus Line" ("What I Did For Love"), Annie Mudge from "Annie" ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz" ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski from "Grease" ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from "The Rocky Horror Show" ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, "Are a Drag" contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was living as an unemployed actor in London during the early 1970s. He wrote most of "The Rocky Horror Show" during one winter just to occupy himself. Since his youth, O'Brien had loved science fiction and B horror movies. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks, and fifties rock and roll into his musical. O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself throughout British popular culture in the 1970s. Allowing his concept to come into being,