How many instances of real musicians/bands appearing on a prime-time television shows (variety shows excluded) primarily as an excuse to promote a new song can we recall? Pure acting gigs by musicians do not count, but we’ll accept acting/performing appearances as characters other than themselves, provided that their performing characters are not too different than their usual performing selves. For instance, there’s an episode of Columbo in which Johnny Cash acts and performs as a character, Tommy Brown. That would count because, as you can see in the following clip from that episode, Tommy Brown has just enough of a resemblance to Johnny Cash.
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