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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
The Monkees to Coldplay, Rodney Bingenheimer - a.k.a. Rodney on the ROQ - has reigned over the Los Angeles music scene for over two decades. A constantly evolving fixture as rock fan, journalist, promoter, club owner and radio DJ on KROQ, Bingenheimer..

















22 August 1963, Newton, North Carolina, USA

17 August 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA

8 March 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA

16 July 1971, Chatsworth, California, USA

21 July 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA


17 June 1958, Boulder, Colorado, USA

22 September 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA



24 January 1948, London, England, UK


19 September 1941, Baltimore, Maryland, USA




18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

4 February 1948, Detroit, Michigan, USA

3 October 1969, Fullerton, California, USA


30 November 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA

20 August 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA

25 August 1954, Paddington, London, England, UK

3 May 1934, Newark, New Jersey, USA


January 15, 2006
By the end, I felt neither happy nor sad for Rodney. I enjoyed being in his presence for 90 minutes, but I can't exactly agree that he has a magnetic personality.
April 28, 2005
Wistful oddball documentary by George Hickenlooper.
July 05, 2008
a great doc but sad as hell
November 14, 2005
too much in awe of subject matter
April 30, 2004
Feels like an elegy for an aging rock pixie.
October 26, 2007
A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it.
August 10, 2004
Has a commercial reach that goes beyond local hero worship thanks in part to an all-star lineup of interviewees, including Cher, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Gwen Stefani and Courtney Love, to name just a few confirmed Rod-heads.
April 30, 2004
At first a wryly comic study of a real-life, shag-topped Zelig ... Hickenlooper's nuanced documentary shifts into far deeper and darker emotional territory once it starts revealing Bingenheimer's heart-wrenching backstory.
April 30, 2004
Occasionally laughable, often sad, and profoundly evocative of the way we live now, adrift in a culture saturated with celebrity and obsessed by fame.
May 06, 2004
Creepily entertaining.
May 21, 2004
Captures Bingenheimer in all his celeb-fondling glory. But it's a forlorn sight, one the film doesn't turn away from as it arcs from giddy inclusion to lonely pathos.