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* ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' makes fun of this quite a bit... what with the protagonist being a fan of Euro-pop who joins a death metal band for the money. Needless to say, he ends up rather over his head...

* ''[[K-On!]]'' is about a school rock band where [[Lighter and Softer|instead of sex and drugs]], they have [[Cuddle Bug|hugs]] and [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|cake]].

* The opening sequence of ''[[The Legend of Black Heaven]]'' implies that Oji did drugs when he was in the band, and as for sex, he got one of his groupies pregnant and married her.

 

* ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]''. And yet, it has some rather positive messages.

* ''[[Almost Famous]]''.

* In [[Get Him to The Greek]], Aldous Snow is portrayed as being heavily into the sex, drugs, and rock & roll lifestyle. To the point where he even convinces his record company handler to smuggle a balloon of heroin for him during an airline flight.

 

* Charlie's backstory on ''[[Lost]]'' is all about how he went from altar boy to this.

* ''[[Behind the Music]]'' is built upon this trope. To the point that when they did [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], he expressed disbelief that he was the subject of a ''Behind the Music'' since he never had a huge angsty blowup with his band, and never had a struggle with heroin or alcohol. They ended up blowing a few of his less popular projects (such as ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' and the ''Polka Party'' album) into much bigger deals than they actually were; the only serious "struggle" they covered was his then-unsuccessful love life (which has become a [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]] with his subsequent marriage and birth of his daughter).

** The upcoming{{when}} documentary ''The Wreckage of My Past: The Story of Ozzy Osbourne'', however, seems to be playing the trope straight judging from the trailer, which features images of Ozzy staring into space and sucking oxygen from a tank filmed with a shaky cam with sorrowful music playing over it.

 

* Perhaps some amount of sex and controlled substances are necessary to rocking out at all: Fitz, from the ''[[Doctor Who]] [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', plays guitar and wants to be a rock star some day. He also smokes thirty a day, gets quite drunk quite often and occasionally gets extremely drunk, tried laudanum once or twice, and has an [[Chivalrous Pervert|active love life]]. Note the following [[LiveJournal]] icon, by [http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/ redscharlach]: [http://i43.tinypic.com/j67xqc.jpg\]

 

* The Ian Dury song "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", the [[Trope Namer]] (although variations on the phrase seem to have existed before he wrote the song in 1977)

* [[MGMT]]'s "Oracular Spectacular" takes both ends of the scale to hell and back.

* "Heavy Metal Poisoning" by [[Styx]] (off their album ''[[Kilroy Was Here (album)|Kilroy Was Here]]'') repeatedly invokes the trope, but rather than celebrating the concept as in so many of the songs above, it is actually a [[Villain Song]] for a tyrannical preacher seeking to expunge all traces of rock and roll from American culture.

 

* The ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' series has a few nods to this trope.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'' seems to hint this with the fictional band Love Fist.

 

* ''[[Rock and Rule]]'' plays this trope ''and'' [[The Power of Rock]] straight. The Big Bad is this trope personified: he's a burned out decadent rocker who wants to {{spoiler|[[Rock Me, Asmodeus|summon a demon]] using the heroine's voice}}. He is defeated when the male and female leads sing a duet that destroys his evil.

* Parodied in the ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' DVD with the story behind the creators' success. It plays like one of those E! biographies, with "jujubee and high sugar candy binges" as well as other amazingly harmless demonstrations of how the success went to their head. It even has them do a [[Power Walk]] down an alleyway! It mentions how the head animator got so hopped on sugar he ''animated an entire season in one night!'' However, it was a season they already had.

** Even moreso for Dr. Rockzo, the Rock 'n' Roll Clown. [[Catch Phrase|He does cocaine!]] It's one of the main reasons he's one of the favorite characters (specifically he's an [[Expy]] of [[Van Halen|David Lee Roth]]).

** Exemplified with [https://web.archive.org/web/20130310114409/http://video.adultswim.com/metalocalypse/la-rock-and-roll-montage.html this montage.]

 

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[[Category:Rock and Roll]]

[[Category:Older Than Dirt]]

[[Category:The Sixties]]

[[Category:Music Tropes]]