Howard Stern Plots "Rock 'N' Roll High School" Remake

Shock jock and self-proclaimed "King of All Media" Howard Stern is turning his sights back on films with a planned remake of the classic teen flick Rock 'n' Roll High School. Often on his radio show, Stern discussed his love of the original 1979 film, which was about a group of punk-rock-loving students who — with an assist from the Ramones — rebel against the school's oppressive administration. Stern is set to produce, with Alex Winter (Bill from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, now a director of music videos and TV) on tap to write the screenplay. Winter is also reportedly working on a script for MTV Films about Napster founder Shawn Fanning. As for Stern, he's also producing another '70s remake in Porky's, with production possibly beginning in the fall. So, who should fill the Ramones' role in the Rock 'n' Roll High School remake? Rock Daily's early vote goes to Black Lips.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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