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The band who called themselves the Hurt performs at youth clubs. After seeing them perform, Terry meets with the band backstage.
He advises them to make him the manager to help them get to the top, fearing that no record company will do a deal with someone of Jules' age. On their first gig with Terry as their manager, they perform at the Manhattan Club where the sound system fails. Terry gets them a studio session and arranges a tour where they perform fourteen gigs in fourteen days. As they discuss it, Terry tells Buddy that he does like Dawn a lot but does not love her. On the tour the band discovers that Terry has renamed it the Wild Ones, as he never liked the Hurt.
When they get back, Buddy goes to see his girlfriend Elaine, but is disgusted to find Glenn alone in the house with her. At band practice, Glenn apologises and Buddy forgives him though he does not want Elaine back. At the breakers yard Terry films a music video for the band's song Nothing Serious and hands the tape to the video editor Donald to be dubbed and cut.
Terry finds a note on the caravan door that reads 'Get stuffed' from Dawn then hears a howl of pain from the office. Terry finds two men attacking Des and manages to shift them off him but he gets stabbed.
The rest of the band comes along, and Terry tells them he is going to concentrate on the videos with Donald. When Terry was released on parole after just over a year Des King who waited outside gave them a lift home then they went to the pub to celebrate where Des gave Terry the envelope of cash. Buddy's parents went with him to dinner with Carol's friend Joyce and came home having a big row. Buddy's Song by Nigel Hinton. Carol suggests a new Italian restaurant, and they go with Kelly. Buddy and Terry went on a shopping spree with the money where Terry got an electric guitar with an amplifier for Buddy, a camcorder with a video recorder for himself and a coat for Carol. Add to mybook Remove from mybook Added to your car collection!
Buddy telephones his mother and she joins him at the hospital to see Terry. At band practice Julius who temporarily replaces Terry gets Kelly, who Buddy fancied, to help get the single for Nothing Serious in the shops and radio stations and request it on the radio. He likes the record and the music video so they go to the studio. After a recording session, Bobby speaks to the band in private in the booth but Terry hears on the speakers.
Bobby tells them they will have to change the name of the band and they will have to go without Terry because he is inexperienced and has a criminal record.
Buddy catches up with his father who advises him to go back and sign with them. The rest of the band comes along, and Terry tells them he is going to concentrate on the videos with Donald. Julius tells Terry that if he had them under a contract when he took over management he would have screwed money out of him for compensation. This gives Terry the idea of getting money for a new video studio called Video King. At the opening ceremony of Video King, Buddy invites his parents to a meal for his birthday.
Carol suggests a new Italian restaurant, and they go with Kelly. The film ends with Terry arriving at the restaurant in style. Eleven songs from the film, performed by Chesney Hawkes, were released on CD and vinyl in It has since been released as a download in the UK. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Buddy's Song Theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification.
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This page was last edited on 18 September , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Buddy got bored over the summer holiday with the Rybeero twins visiting relatives in the West Country and having nothing to do so he got a job sweeping up at a depot. One day he found the old guitar Terry gave him for his twelfth birthday and decided to start playing it. When he got his first week's wages Buddy bought new strings for the guitar along with two music books and a pitch pipe to help him tune it.
Buddy got a letter from Charmian Rybeero to say that they would be moving out with their father setting up a new taxi firm with his brother. Carol received a letter from Terry saying he wanted them to sell his Harley-Davidson motorbike because he did not want it getting rusty although Buddy polished and oiled it all the time. Buddy learned on his fifteenth birthday it was to buy a cassette recorder so he could record himself playing the guitar. Buddy recorded himself singing and playing and gave the cassette to his father for Christmas.
When Terry was released on parole after just over a year Des King who waited outside gave them a lift home then they went to the pub to celebrate where Des gave Terry the envelope of cash. Buddy and Terry went on a shopping spree with the money where Terry got an electric guitar with an amplifier for Buddy, a camcorder with a video recorder for himself and a coat for Carol. Terry tried searching for jobs but was unsuccessful with his criminal record then his probation officer found him a job at an all night petrol station. Buddy went there to visit him and that was where Terry got the idea of placing an advertisement in the local newspaper offering to film weddings and parties in which Buddy helped him.
Terry placed an ad four music papers and the noticeboard in the music shop for musicians to play with Buddy but there were no replies. Terry heard from an old friend called Dougie about a group he knew called the Hi-Tone Four so he arranged to have Buddy play with them for experience. Buddy practised with the middle aged band in the shed at Des King's breakers yard then performed at weddings with them. Terry left his job at the petrol station without notice and started working at the breakers yard. Buddy's parents went with him to dinner with Carol's friend Joyce and came home having a big row.
Terry left when Carol said she did not need him. Terry moved into the caravan at the breakers yard and Buddy came to visit him. This was when Buddy came up with the idea for the song Torn in Half. In the common room he met fraternal twins Mike and Jason who also played guitar then he practised with them in the school hall.
They searched for a drummer and found an eighteen-year-old milkman called Glenn who joined them and they called the band the Reflections. The band mainly played at youth clubs and Buddy continued playing with the Hi-Tone Four without telling his parents hoping their gigs would not clash.
One evening Buddy went with his mother to a meal with her boss Adrian Mandell who she was seeing a lot of. At one of the Hi-Tones' gigs Terry met a woman about fifteen years younger called Dawn who he saw lot of after that but Buddy thought negatively about her as he did with Adrian. When the clash between gigs finally happened Buddy had to tell his father about the Reflections and went there instead. Terry came to the Reflections' gig and met with them afterwards and they agreed to let him be their manager.
Terry booked them a session at a recording studio where they made tapes to send to clubs to get bookings. Terry then booked them a tour over the Easter holiday within a hundred miles of their town so Terry and Glenn could go to work and changed the name of the band to Buddy and the Bosses. When Terry was going over the plans for the tour Buddy asked if he loved Dawn and he said that he liked her a lot but did not love her.
When the band started performing at local youth clubs again there were two girls who went to the gigs and one of them asked Buddy out on a date. Buddy went with Elaine to the cinema where they kissed. After seven dates Elaine did not turn up and at the next gig she said it was because she did not want to get serious then he dumped her. Terry arranged to have a tour for Half-term in London and some other Southern cities, a recording session at a studio and a single in the local record shops.
When Buddy went to tell his mother the news she said that her boss had been offered a job in London and wanted Carol to come with him. She asked Buddy what he thought but he left it entirely with her.
Buddy thought he was going mad with the uncertainty of his future and wrote the song Brain Train about it. He also wrote Nothing Serious about Elaine. Buddy wrote to the Rybeero twins about the gig in the West Country on the tour and they came. At the same gig Mike and James met their friend Dave from Plymouth who played keyboard with them in their previous band. Terry filmed the music video for Torn in Half at the breakers yard where Paul joined them and a local known as the Video King edited it.
Terry bribed the two record shops, that the local paper used to compile their chart, into stocking the single and made sure the local radio stations had copies.