Cinema history is filled with a multitude of fictional bands we wish we could experience in real life. A select few have even leapt from the silver screen to the concert stage, but most have remained trapped in celluloid. Some make-believe bands only appear in the background, such as The Weird Sisters (a supergroup fronted by Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker and also featuring Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway), who perform at a school dance in . Many others are interregnal to the plot, such as Blackgammon in , an Oscar-winning film about a metal drummer, with the band appearing on a fake cover of our magazine. We took stock of all the notable fictional bands from movies and came up with this list of the 40 most iconic.
