Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The success of the film would later lead to actual recordings of the fictional band and concert tours plus press interviews, all done in character.

Ironically one of the bands on the album, The Headstones, featured singer Hugh Dillon, who also starred in the movie as a singer of the fictional band.

The fictional band's music was done by a real band named " Swamp Baby " with vocals by Dillon.

The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.

* Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( musical ), off-Broadway musical about a fictional rock and roll band

Clover, the drummer at a holiday camp during the early days of British rock ' n ' roll in a fictional band called Stray Cats.

The " Wilburys " joke was extended further, with the band members credited under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.

It follows the story of a fictional rock band that tries to get a recording contract.

* Finch and other band members made cameo appearances in Talking Heads leader David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories, set in fictional Virgil, Texas.

The town is the home of the fictional character Ali G, and indie rock band Hard-Fi.

" In 1995, an independent band from Indianapolis, Indiana, named themselves Odd Man and released a CD entitled Hypothesis in reference to the fictional hypothesis contained in the story.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

* Lumi, a fictional character and the singer of the virtual band Genki Rockets, was born on September 11, 2037, and is the first human to be born in space.

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

* Toki Wartooth, rhythm guitar player for the fictional death metal band Dethklok was raised in a nearby abandoned village.

* Sargon, left-handed guitarist of the fictional band The Mesopotamians from the They Might Be Giants song on their 2007 album The Else

This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for 1970s television programming, became an actual group ( while remaining a parody of The Beatles ) and toured and recorded, releasing two UK chart hits.

Also, in tracing the fictional history of the band, one other member was mentioned:

Other characters, and pseudonyms associated with the band over the years include the fictional manager Morty Allen, jr., Sweaty & Bloated Management, Lounge Singer Nick Deletchi, Presty Gomez, Rockabye Sweetheart, Lenny Wagonmaster, Wildfire Friz the Shasta Man, Blue Joe Roundabout, the Silky Smooth Scrubby Muffin, The Grimmace Groove Dough Boy, The Hot Trottin ' Dictator, Simeon Krease, and Coco the Talking Guitar.

This Is Spinal Tap is an American 1984 rock and roll musical mock documentary directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap.

* Stillwater, the fictional rock band featured in the 2000 film, Almost Famous

* Stillwater, fictional rock band from the 2000 film Almost Famous

The 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap features the fictional band members Derek Smalls, David St. Hubbins, and Nigel Tufnel attempting a version of the song at Presley's grave.

The Traditions ( formally called the Nine Mystic Traditions ) are a fictional alliance of secret societies in the Mage: the Ascension role-playing game.

One of Long's followers dubbed him " the Kingfish " after the master of the Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge to which the fictional Amos and Andy belonged.

The name was inspired by a fictional secret society on the Amos ' n ' Andy TV series called The Mystic Knights of the Ruby Begonia.

* Rohan, a fictional character in the television series The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog

Daria Morgendorffer is a fictional animated character from MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head and its spin-off Daria.

Titled " Esteemsters ", the episode established Daria and her family's move from fictional Highland, the setting of " Beavis and Butt-Head ", to the new series ' equally fictional locale of Lawndale.

Daria likes to watch the fictional television show Sick, Sad World with her best friend Jane.

* Lawndale ( Daria ), the fictional setting for the MTV cartoon series Daria

* Jane Lane ( Daria ), fictional character on the MTV cartoon show Daria

* Kevin Thompson ( animated ), fictional character on the MTV show Daria

The fictional social movement he calls functionalism, ( which is unrelated to the real-life sociological theory of the same name ), advances the idea that one's status and level of material reward in a society must and should depend on the functions one performs for that society.

*" Member for Kicking Horse Pass ", in which the fictional Member of Parliament ( Dave Broadfoot ), reprising his original radio role, performs a solo comedy sketch ( as a representative of the " New Apathetic Party ".

* Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg who had a small group that performs cover songs from a fictional band called Steel Dragon.

* Also, in the movie Yes Man, the fictional band Munchausen by Proxy performs with a keytar.

* Magician ( fantasy ), a character in a fictional fantasy context who performs supernatural feats ; also known as magic-user, sorcerer, witch, wizard, warlock, etc.

In the second season episode " Where There's a Will, There's a Wave " Christy Carlson Romano stars as a fictional pop star and performs her song " Dive In ".

* Temporal Integrity Commission-an organization in the Star Trek universe that performs a similar function of policing time, within the fictional Star Trek Universe

* Linear Men-an organization in the DC Comics universe that performs a similar function, with confines of the fictional DC Universe.