Who Is Your Favorite Fictitious Band or Artist? [POLL] [VIDEO]

Was there ever a doubt who was really behind the sudden legend of "pop-star" Chris Gaines? He suddenly appeared as the music guest on Saturday Night Live, and it was coincidentally on the same night Garth Brooks was the host.

The character originally came about because Brooks was going to portray the fictitious Gaines in a movie called The Lamb, which was to delve into Gaines' life and his emotional conflicts. The movie never developed. What did come about was a triple platinum album, Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines, a mockumentary edition of VH1's Behind The Music, and a fair sized load of razing for Brooks.

Created for the film, O, Brother, Where Art Thou?,  songs credited to The Soggy Bottom Boys are lip-synched by the George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro, with the songs actually performed by Dan Tyminski, Harley Allen, and Pat Enright. The band's hit single, "Man of Constant Sorrow", is a song that had already enjoyed much success in real life.

After the film's release, the fictitious band became so popular that the country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film, such as Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Sharp, and others, all got together and performed the music from the film in a Down from the Mountain concert tour which was filmed for TV and DVD.

A television reporter named Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) investigates the mysterious disappearance of legendary rock star Eddie Wilson (Michael Paré). Flashbacks dramatize Eddie's life and the rise and fall of his rock and roll band, Eddie and the Cruisers. In a surprise reveal near the ending, a bearded, much older looking Eddie is shown alive, watching the ending credits roll of a documentary tribute to him.

The movie was a critical and commercial flop, but the soundtrack, with music performed by John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band sold four million copies when “On the Dark Side” became a #1 hit.

Aaron Spelling is one of the all-time genius TV show producers. You may not love all his programs, but in late August 1992, America fell in love with The Heights, a fictitious teenage garage ban. But the love affair soon ended and the show was gone by late November 1992 after airing only 13 episodes.

The theme song from the show, “How Do You Talk to An Angel”, hit #1 on the Billboard Top 40 chart in 1992. A "one-hit wonder" from a short lived tv series.

The original premise of the band was only to be to record the "B" side of George Harrison's single "This Is Love", from his 1987 album Cloud Nine. But after the record company received "Handle With Care", they decided it was too good to be "album filler", and commissioned a full album from the group. Jokingly, Harrison told Jeff Lynne, "We'll bury them with this". And the Wilburys were born.

The band's "line-up" consisted of Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison), "Otis Wilbury" (Jeff Lynne), "Lefty Wilbury" (Roy Orbison), "Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr" (Tom Petty) and "Lucky Wilbury" (Bob Dylan), all supposed half-brothers and sons of the "legendary" Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.. The band continued on after Lefty's passing between albums to release Volume 3 in 1990.