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| Frank Sidebottom: Fans raise £40,000 for documentary | Frank Sidebottom: Fans raise £40,000 for documentary |
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| An online appeal to raise funds for a tribute documentary to cult comedian Frank Sidebottom hit its £40,000 target hours ahead of deadline. | An online appeal to raise funds for a tribute documentary to cult comedian Frank Sidebottom hit its £40,000 target hours ahead of deadline. |
| The appeal to pay for Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story closed at 01:00 BST on the Kickstarter website. | The appeal to pay for Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story closed at 01:00 BST on the Kickstarter website. |
| Filmmaker Steve Sullivan said the project had received "amazing" support since its launch a month ago. | Filmmaker Steve Sullivan said the project had received "amazing" support since its launch a month ago. |
| Chris Sievey, who played Sidebottom wearing an over-sized papier-mache head, died of cancer in 2010. | Chris Sievey, who played Sidebottom wearing an over-sized papier-mache head, died of cancer in 2010. |
| Mr Sullivan filmed The Magical Timperley Tour, a documentary where Sidebottom toured the area of Greater Manchester where he lived with 100 fans on an open top bus. | Mr Sullivan filmed The Magical Timperley Tour, a documentary where Sidebottom toured the area of Greater Manchester where he lived with 100 fans on an open top bus. |
| "We talked about making another film but sadly he died and I just started to get fascinated by the idea that nobody really knew who Frank Sidebottom was and who was beneath the head," he added. | "We talked about making another film but sadly he died and I just started to get fascinated by the idea that nobody really knew who Frank Sidebottom was and who was beneath the head," he added. |
| Mr Sullivan added: "This is going to fund an incredible documentary." | Mr Sullivan added: "This is going to fund an incredible documentary." |
| Kickstarter is a website that allows people to raise funding for films, games, music, art, design and technology. | Kickstarter is a website that allows people to raise funding for films, games, music, art, design and technology. |
| TV regular | TV regular |
| Mr Sullivan said the funding would enable the film to use footage from TV performances of Frank Sidebottom as well as rare interviews with his creator Sievey. | |
| Sievey, who died aged 54, hit the charts in the late 1970s with his Manchester punk band band the Freshies and had a hit with I'm In Love With The Girl From the Manchester Virgin. | Sievey, who died aged 54, hit the charts in the late 1970s with his Manchester punk band band the Freshies and had a hit with I'm In Love With The Girl From the Manchester Virgin. |
| But it was Frank, the comedy character he created satirising the music business, that he was best known for. | But it was Frank, the comedy character he created satirising the music business, that he was best known for. |
| Often accompanied by his sidekick Little Frank - a glove puppet made in his own image - Frank became a regular face on TV in the 1980s and 1990s. | Often accompanied by his sidekick Little Frank - a glove puppet made in his own image - Frank became a regular face on TV in the 1980s and 1990s. |
| His TV fame peaked in the early 1990s with his own series Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show. | His TV fame peaked in the early 1990s with his own series Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show. |