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Ronson clearly liked Sievey a lot and his book casts him as crazy and George Bernard Shaw’s Unreasonable Man, but that these were admirable qualities in this unique individual and made him stand out. It’s kinda funny and tragic that there was this Jekyll/Hyde nature to Sievey and that he actually seemed to prefer being Frank to the person he was in real life, and that professionalism was the death of the band – Frank’s improv/freestyle showmanship was what made him stand out, and bringing in actual musicians and rehearsing made him less appealing to audiences. There isn’t much to this book – Frank was a character Sievey played who revelled in chaotic stage shows and whose success was relatively low (his biggest gig was opening for Bros at Wembley to an audience of 50,000 who booed him as he came out and played terrible renditions of Bros songs).

Ronson’s brief memoir comes out just as a movie version of Frank Sidebottom, starring Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is released and recounts the barmy days he was in the band. Sporting a fibreglass cartoon head, Frank (played by Chris Sievey) would perform strange Beatles/Queen/Bruce Springsteen covers with his Oh Blimey Big Band, of which Jon Ronson was the keyboardist. There isn’t much to t Frank Sidebottom was a novelty act from the Manchester music scene of the late 80s/early 90s. It tells the true story behind the fictionalized movie.moreįrank Sidebottom was a novelty act from the Manchester music scene of the late 80s/early 90s. Frank is set for release in 2014, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.įrank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a memoir of funny, sad times and a tribute to outsider artists too wonderfully strange to ever make it in the mainstream. Twenty-five years later and Jon has co-written a movie, Frank, inspired by his time in this great and bizarre band. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years.

Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. Twenty-five years later and Jon has co-written a movie, Frank In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band.