The Pinheads
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The Pinheads was Marty McFly's band in 1985. They auditioned for the Battle of the Bands in front of three adults and one student in the Hill Valley High School gymnasium. Their audition song was a hard rock version of "The Power of Love", but the head judge told them to stop after playing just a short time, saying they were "too darn loud".
After failing the audition, his girlfriend Jennifer tried to convince Marty to send a tape of his band's music to a record company, but Marty doubted that he could take another rejection.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- The Pinheads were portrayed by Michael J. Fox, Paul Hanson (second guitar, who was Fox's guitar coach for the movie), Lee Brownfield and Robert DeLapp.
- The man with the megaphone was Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, whose band dubbed the music the Pinheads were playing.
- It has been theorized that Mr. Strickland shut the band down due to Marty's attitude.
- In a scene cut from the movie, Marty was at the desk in his room after dinner, putting his band's tape cassette into a yellow envelope for mailing, but changing his mind and throwing it in the waste basket before going to bed. This explains the yellow envelope Marty was holding, and was prepared to mail, when he discovered that his living room had changed after returning to 1985.
