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DVD ~ Robbie Coltrane
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  • Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Richard Wilson, Maurice Roeves, Jake D'Arcy
  • Directors: Tony Smith
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Aug 2009
  • Run Time: 366 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001V7P2V8
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 143 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Great music, a superb cast and a fantastic dark and witty script took this 1987 multi-BAFTA winning series to number 82 in the BFI’s top TV programmes of all time – and made household names of its stars, Robbie Coltrane (Cracker) and future Oscar winner, Emma Thompson.

The series follows the fortunes of rock and roll band The Majestics – Scotland's very own heroes of the 1960s beat boom – who re-group to play a 25th anniversary tour. Despite the death of lead singer Jazza McGlone in a freak car crash, band manager Eddie Clockerty is still determined to re-create the Majestic's halcyon days. So, in his place, the group's manager Eddie Clockerty recruits Jazza’s less-than-enthusiastic younger brother Danny.

As the group performs in some of Scotland’s less salubrious clubs and pubs, it seems their personal disagreements and private tragedies will force the band to disintegrate. Is there any way the self-styled 'Kings of Rock and Roll’ can avoid a slow self-destruction and recapture their former glories?

The Tutti Frutti sleeve was designed from hand drawn paintings commissioned especially for the release by acclaimed Scottish artist John Byrne The release also features 4 limited edition art card prints of John Bryne original paintings.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The long wait is nearly over, 26 Jul 2009
By J. B. Egan "ridgeway" (somerset, uk) - See all my reviews
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I watched Tutti Frutti on TV in the late 1980s. I taped the series on video. I bought the soundtrack on CD. Recently found the paperback book of it on-line. I haven't got the T shirt though. But this is just a terrific show which doesn't age a bit. It cracks me up, even when its tragic and no laughin' matter. A great script, full of brilliant one-liners. Top class performances by all the actors. The music is good too. How to turn the lives of over the hill Scots rock and rollers into pure gold, its just perfect alchemy.Buy it and live it.Don't miss it.
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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "Yes Miss Tona", 15 Jul 2009
By Mark Pearce "''Chinatown''" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I still intend to keep my TDK tape of 20+ years but finally a dvd release of one of the best things the BBC ever did in the 80's.
Aging rock'n'rollers the Majestics are dusting themselves down for their Silver Jubilee tour when Big Jazza McGlone,their lead singer,is killed in a car crash.Step forward Jazza's younger brother Danny(Robbie Coltrane) whose personality is at odds with the band especially Maurice Roeves who is determined to preserve the band's leagacy at all costs and when Danny's old schoolfriend Suzy Kettles(Emma Thompson)turns up then so does the combustability of battling egos.
John Byrne's script is funny and beautifully judged with affection and cynacism in equal measure.The music is well done and the performances are magic with Roeves and Coltrane vying for top honours only for Richard Wilson to come along and steal it from underneath them as the dodgy Eddie Clockerty.
Delightful.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars At last!, 14 Jul 2009
By doublegone (scotland) - See all my reviews
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Finally the BBC has got its act together and released this magnificent series on DVD. It has never had an official release, even on tape. Rumours circulate about problems with copyright of the music, lost footage, and reluctant actors. Whatever it was they've sorted it and over 20 years on its finally here!

Written in only a few weeks in a shed next to the Tay by acclaimed painter and polymath John Byrne, the series follows the misadventures of ageing rockers, The Majestics, as they tour the backwaters of Scotland.

It will show up much of today's British TV. It took risks. It moved at a sedate pace, stretched out in its characterisations and revelled in great dialogue. Consider that in 1987 this and the Singing Detective were on our screens. Seen anything as good as that lately?

This was the first time that Emma Thompson came to my attention. I'm from the West of Scotland myself, and when I saw this performance I assumed the actress was from Glasgow. She carried the West End accent off so well. Coltrane is of course magnificent, along with Katie Murphy and Richard Wilson, and the rest of the cast is made up of many of the stalwarts we have seen as ever shuffling bit players in Scottish TV and theatre over the years.

Absolutely unmissable stuff.
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