Mud, Slik, Hello, The Glitter Band, The Rubettes, Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Kerr’s Whoopee band and The Silver Band – The stars were out for Never Too Young To Rock, a distinctly low-budget but high-excitement movie that told the tale of life in a post-Orwellian Britain in which pop music is being outlawed and replaced on television by silver band concerts.
Our hero (Dennis out of Please, Sir!) is determined this shall not happen and takes his £50,000 Group Detector Van (a converted ice cream van) to the streets in search of groups to perform at a televised concert to prove that the kids of Britain would rather have rock ‘n’ roll than Tarara-Boom-de-Ay.
His driver, brass band aficionado Mr Rockbottom (Freddie Jones), is actually no friend of rock ‘n’ roll. He is in league with the devious Milligan (John Clive), leader of the notorious Black and White Dykers silver band, who roam the countryside on a steam-powered traction engine and are bent on capturing the valuable TV spot for themselves.
The first group to be tracked down by the van is Mud who are discovered singing The Cat Crept In and swilling tea with two happy groups of football supporters in a cafe (the Kopp Cafe) run by Sheila Steafel.
Rockbottom seizes his chance to sabotage Hero’s efforts by setting the rival supporters at each other’s throats – but he is the major casualty.
More troubles follow when they find The Whoopee Band (who are actually Milligan’s men cunningly disguised) and they try to trap Hero with lies about The Glitter Band, The Rubettes and Mud.
But Hero collects them all for the grand finale – and a converted Mr Rockbottom joins in on his tuba.
Hero
Peter Denyer Mr Rockbottom
Freddie Jones Milligan
John Clive Cafe Proprietress
Sheila Steafel Russian Soldier
Joe Lynch Army Captain
Peter Noone Mr Merlin
Joe Dunne The Glitter Band
Themselves The Rubettes
Themselves Slik
Themselves Mud
Themselves Bob Kerr’s Whoopee Band
Themselves Scott Fitzgerald
Himself Sally James
Herself Peter Powell
Himself Russian Soldier
Joe Lynch
Director
Dennis Abey
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Our hero (Dennis out of Please, Sir!) is determined this shall not happen and takes his £50,000 Group Detector Van (a converted ice cream van) to the streets in search of groups to perform at a televised concert to prove that the kids of Britain would rather have rock ‘n’ roll than Tarara-Boom-de-Ay.
The first group to be tracked down by the van is Mud who are discovered singing The Cat Crept In and swilling tea with two happy groups of football supporters in a cafe (the Kopp Cafe) run by Sheila Steafel.
Hero
Army Captain
Bob Kerr’s Whoopee Band 
