#ActorMusicians6Music – Help us compile a playlist of musicians who act and vice-versa

Well here’s one we didn’t see coming. The American actor James Franco (Spider-Man, 127 Hours, Milk) is in a band called Daddy. This week it was announced that Daddy have been signed to a record label and the band will release an album of “Smiths-inspired songs”, all featuring original Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, in 2016.

Not only that, but the album will be titled 'Let Me Get What I Want' in reference to The Smiths' 1984 song 'Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want'. Turns out Franco is something of a Smiths superfan, having already done his own cover of ‘This Charming Man’ in 2014.

So it got us thinking, let’s put together a playlist of actors who do music, and musicians who’ve been in films. This is what’s known in the business as the “double threat”. And it turns out the list is nearly endless. 

Go actor-crazy with the likes of Jonny Depp, Jared Leto, Russell Crowe, Jack Black, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Hugh Laurie and Juliette Lewis strutting their rock n’ roll stuff in bands or solo. Or do a switcheroo and choose musicians who’ve made reasonably random cameos in movies, such as George Harrison in The Life of Brian, Jarvis Cocker & Jonny Greenwood in Harry Potter, Bruce Springsteen in High Fidelity, Phil Collins in Buster and Keith Richards in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Get YOUR acting/musician song suggestions to Nemone – including the reasons WHY - via the hashtag #ActorMusicians6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@6music.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.