Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Let’s Not Do the Time Warp. Yet.

1. If You Can Remember the 1960s . . . You’re Old

2. While the Censor’s Away . . .

3. Did the Earth Stand Still for You Too, Dear?

4. Opening Titles

5. Shirley Thompson Meets Sam Shepard

6. Upstairs, Downstairs

7. Behind the Scenes—Casting the Crew

8. In the Spotlight—Crewing the Cast

9. Dissecting the Double Feature

10. Chelsea Days

11. The Biggest Dirty Show in Town

12. Rocking with Rocky

13. The Rocky Rolling Jukebox

14. Rocky Goes to Hollywood

15. Rocky Down Under

16. Rocky—the Picture Show

17. The Studio That Dripped Blood

18. Dropping Dead on Broadway

19. The Cult with No Shame

20. Rocky-ing the Curtain Down

21. A Rocky-ing Revival

22. A Tale of Two Doctors

23. A Riff and a Raff

24. Shock Rock Treatment

25. Deadpan Dolores and Other Tales

26. Reaching for the Sky

27. Rocky Returns to London

28. Back to Broadway

29. A Twenty-First-Century Frank

Epilogue: Sequels, Sidelines and Sex

Appendix One: A Century of Pleasure: The Ultimate Rocky Horror Chronology

Appendix Two: The Rocky Horror Discography

Bibliography