Video Vault: More Bizarre Rock Star Film & TV Cameos

Jerry McCulley | 08.27.2008

Jonah Bayer’s amusing Wack-o Rock Star Movie Cameos inspired us to dig through the archives in search of some more rock star video oddities. While we still haven’t found a clip of our own bizarre fave ― rockabilly legend Carl Perkins and David Bowie as hit men in a knock-down, drag-out fight that culminates with them plunging through an apartment building window to their deaths in John Landis’ shaggy-dog of a comedy-thriller, “Into the Night”  ― here’s Bowie’s cameo in Ben Stiller’s hilarious 2001 send-up of the modeling world, “Zoolander”:




And would you believe Frank Zappa actually made not one, but two cameo appearances with the Monkees? Here he and Mike Nesmith switch identities for an opening of the Monkees’ TV series:




While in the band’s delightfully surreal 1968 cult feature film “Head,” Frank offers up some sage advice to Davy Jones:




Bonus Rounds:

White Stripe Jack White’s brief, but endlessly amusing turn as Elvis in “Walk Hard”:




Tom Petty’s trademark grin is one of the only things to smile about in Kevin Costner’s 1997 turkey, “The Postman”: