




OK, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ewan McGregor in Velvet Goldmine, obviously. But also: Toni Collette in Velvet Goldmine.
According to legend, when Curt was 13 he was discovered in the family loo at the service of his older brother, and was promptly sent off for eighteen months of electric shock treatment. It was guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him, but all it did was make him go bonkers whenever he heard an electric guitar.