Rock Legend Part 2

By Sean Walsh

Rock Legend's journey through the twentieth century and the music business continues and picks up the story in London in the early Eighties where Rock is in the throes of heroin addiction. Within seven years Rock HAS KICKED THE JUNK and is a Hot House music D.J. After conquering the Manchester underground rave scene he decides to take a chance at CRACKING THE DANCE MECCA THAT IS iBIZA. Follow Rock through the 90's as he experiences the highs and lows of being a rock superstar D.J. By 1999 Rock is a rich man and has the 21st century at his feet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781291938777

Sean Walsh

I've worked and lived in communications all my life: journalist, subeditor, editor, actor, director, producer - here in Ireland and abroad.I fell in love with Hiberno-English a long time ago - English as it is spoken and written in my country - and have been in love with it ever since.I love the challenge of pen and blank paper: creating characters, storylines, drama.If I may share with you some of the gems that have influenced me down the years; I've tried to abide by them but didn't always succeed!"You make your way by taking it..."It does not just happen, you have to make it happen..."Sometimes in stooping down to pick up two pennies one can lose a fortune..."InterestsFriendship - when it is not possessive, controlling...Quiet. Silence - a positive value completely overlooked by many today...Reading - carefully judged. If I'm not hooked by the first sequence - the first paragraph - I won't read any further...Trying, day in day out, not to spill any more milk... and to stop crying over milk already spilt.Not suffering fools gladly...Analysing Casablanca, frame for frame, line by line...(TBC...)PublicationsMy scripts have been broadcast on RTE, Radio One, BBC 4 and, in translation, on European networks; televised on RTE One, BBC One and Channel 4; staged at the Peacock by the Abbey National Theatre, at the Project, the Eblana, the Liverpool Playhouse and on the London Fringe...Credits include The Night of the Rouser. Earwig. The Dreamers. Fugitive. Veil. Penny for Your Travels. Far Side of the Moon. Three for Calvary. Jenny One, Two, Three... The Circus. Centre Circle. Where Do We Go from Here, My Lovely? At The Praetorium. Conclave. Assault on a Citadel.Has conducted many workshops on Creative/Script Writing in Dublin and at various centres around Ireland.Favourite authorsA D Sertillanges. John Henry Newman. Waugh. Greene. Hemingway. Hans Kung.LikesGood conversation. The company of my fellow searchers... Con pane... meaning, with bread... hence company...DislikesArrogant, self-opinionated prigs... Controlling, bullying clerics...Favourite Quote"I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." (Orson Welles (1915 - 1985))

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Rock Legend Part 2

ROCK LEGEND PART II

A Rock & Roll Life

by

Sean Walsh

Other Works by Sean Walsh

Canyon Stars – Film Script 2010

Ice Cool – Film Script 2011

Rock Legend Part I – Film Script 2012

MOB v MAFIA – Film Script 2014

Rock Legend Part III – Film Script 2014

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Synopsis

Rock Legend's journey through the twentieth century and the music business  continues and picks up the story in London in the early Eighties where Rock is in the throes of heroin addiction. Within seven years Rock HAS KICKED THE JUNK and is a Hot House music D.J.  After conquering the Manchester underground rave scene he decides to take a chance at CRACKING THE DANCE MECCA THAT IS iBIZA. Follow Rock through the 90's as he experiences the highs and lows of being a rock superstar D.J. By 1999 Rock is a rich man and has the 21st century at his feet.

1 The first scenes of the film are in black and white.

Rock has woken on Christmas day morning in his London flat in the early eighties. He reaches down from his bed to the floor and picks up a stash of  Heroin. He sits up and injects the Heroin into his arm. He then slumps back into bed. As Rock closes his eyes the scene cuts to a coloured screen. The colour brown is racing around the colour red. This is supposed to signify the speed of heroin racing round the blood and veins of the body. At this point (colours still racing) The Motor Head song 'The Ace Of Spades' begins to play, interspersed with the opening titles of Rock Legend Part II (colours and song still present).

2 (Back to black and white) A priest's help?

Rock is walking along a London street on his way to McDonald's restaurant on Xmas day. He approaches a priest and two nuns who are handing out flyers to disinterested passers by.

Priest:   Happy Christmas son.

Rock:    Happy Christmas Vicar

Priest:  I'm a priest. Not a vicar. If you're on your own, the local nuns provide free Christmas dinner

Rock:   You've got the wrong idea pal

Priest:   You're on your own?

Rock:   Yeah

Priest:   And you want company and an escape from the devil and drugs?

Rock: Listen. I know you mean well and I wish you the best.  But I’m okay.

Priest: God looks after his children at Christmas. That's why we're here

Rock  walks on. 

3 Christmas Lunch in McDonald's

Rock:  Have you got anything with turkey in?

Assistant: Er no. We've got chicken nuggets

Rock: smiles wryly Go on then. Give us twelve chicken nuggets

4 Rock's not hungry

Rock has hardly eaten any of his meal and throws his uneaten meal into the bin and leaves the restaurant.

5 Back at Rock's pad

Rock is pouring himself a fat Brandy drink in the living room of his modest, yet comfortable and coolly furnished London flat. There is a knock on the door

Steve: A twenty something junkie who lives in a bedsit upstairs. He is twitching and rubbing his cold shoulders Rock. I need a fix?

Rock:   I warned you 

Steve:  Ar come on. You know what it's like. I've got the cash. But  no one’s answering the door.

Rock:  It's Christmas day. They'll all be hibernating. You've got no chance. You'll have to wait till tomorrow.

Steve: Can I at least come in. My pad’s freezing.

Rock opens flat door

6    A Brandy for Steve

Rock:   Get that down your neck.

Steve:   Cheers Rockey

Rock:    hands Steve a small amount of Heroin Happy Christmas

Steve Grins with   delight

At this point there is a knock at the door. Rock  answers the door. There are a pair of young scallies at the door, who are clearing withdrawing from Heroin.

Rock:   You can fuck off. I'm not fucking Jesus you know. I can't feed the five thousand.

Gaz:   Come on Rock. We're dying here.

Rock:   I'll call you an ambulance?

Gaz:   Come on

Rock: I warned the lot of you to save some gear for Xmas Day. Shuts door

7a  A knock from guinea pig

Rock is at the door talking to Guinea pig, another junkie

Rock:   There's no chance G.P

Guinea Pig:   I've got money

Rock:    I’d help you out but I’ve got to sort meself and Pam out.

Rock goes back into living room

Steve:   He's gonnar suffer. He's got a raging habit

Rock:   He was on the fringes of the scene in the Seventies. He used to be a tester for my old mate Joey Junk. That's why everyone calls him Guinea pig

7   Pamela arrives

Rock's girlfriend Pamela arrives

Steve: about the brandy   Hey this is good shit

Rock:   It's the best

Knock Knock

Rock: Wankers

Rock is irritated and moves to answer the door. He flings it open and is calmed at the sight of his girlfriend Pamela

Rock:   Oh it's you.  How was your folks?

Pam:    They could handle me for an hour

Rock:  Steve's here. He's just going. Right Steve?

Steve:  Yeah. I'll bring the glass back tomorrow.

Rock:   Make sure you do. It's crystal.

Steve stumbles out Rock's flat clutching a brandy and lit cigar

8   Shopping talk

Rock and Pam are wasted and watching T.V

Pam:   What's happening tomorrow? Are we going shopping?

Rock:    There’ll be nowhere open. There's enough to get us over Xmas, then we'll hit the sales  

9 Shopping at the sales

Rock and Pam are out shoplifting at the January sales. Pam has a large holdall bag open and Rock is stuffing designer clothes into them. They go from shop to shop with the same routine. The scene then cuts to Rock and Pamela walking through a supermarket with a trolley. The pair are loading the trolley full of cuts of expensive meat. The pair then casually walk out of the supermarket, bypassing the tills. The song for the montage is The Jam 'A Town Called Malice'

10 Counting the cash

Rock and Pam are in Rock's flat counting their earnings.

Rock:   holding and waving wad of money aloft Good touch. I'm off to score

11 Calling on Deger the dealer

Deger's:    How's it going?

Rock:   Sweet

Deger's: About my proposition

Rock: I told you. Getting into dealing's not my scene

Deger's:    You wouldn't be a dealer. You’d be the muscle if it ever gets lairey. Know what I mean?

Rock:   I'm happy doing my own thing. When I step off the cobbles it will be back into the music game.

Deger's:   Dismissive and  grinning sarcastically  Music. What do you know about fucking music?

Rock:   irritated More than you know about being a gangster. I'll have me usual bag

Deger's hands over a large bag of heroin

12 Greedy Pam

It is the spring time and while Rock has slept Pam has greedily finished off  her and Rock's daily supply of heroin.

Rock:  Where’s it Heroin gone?

Pam: I finished it baby

Rock:    You're a greedy fucker

Pam:   You can go and get some more

13 Ghost town

As Rock gets out his front door he can feel an air of tension. This is the night of the Brixton riots. The riots are just starting to simmer and Rock feels uneasy. As he goes first to Deger's to try and score (he doesn't answer) and then to his other contacts and dealers, none of whom answer Rock becomes frustrated. Crowds of black youths are starting to gather and Rock wants to get home. The song for the scene is The Specials 'Ghost Town'

14  Joey Junk

Just as Rock is about to abort his mission he thinks of going to West London and trying Joey Junk, who he has not seen for years. Rock knocks on his door and is delighted when Joey answers.

Joey:     Hello stranger.

Rock and Joey go into Joeys living room. Joey has the news on the television which is reporting on the Brixton and English riots

Rock:   I  knew something was going down in Brixton

Joey:   What were you doing in that part of town?

Rock:    I went to score

Joey: surprised score?

Rock:    That's why I’m here. Do you still deal 'H'?

Joey:   Gave it up years ago mate.

Rock:   I'm gonnar rattle then

Joey:  pulls out silver box from cabinet, opens it and pulls out a large bag of heroin  I said I no longer dealt, I never said anything about using.

Rock gives a relieved smile

Joey hands Rock a small bag of heroin.

Joey:   You want to shoot up here?

Rock:   takes jumper off If that's alright man

Joey:   You remember you used to score for Janey and Fender and swore you’d never get into it

Rock:  tightens