Celebrate ‘Back to the Future’ Day with the Famed Pinheads Audition, Marty McFly Ripping Up “Johnny B. Goode”

Rob Slater on October 21, 2015

In case you haven’t navigated the internet yet today, live under a rock, or in that Jon Hamm-controlled bunker in Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt, today is in fact the future as told in Back to the Future. Marty McFly has arrived and is probably pleased to know the Cubs are in the World Series (he knew that already though). 

The film featured several notable musical moments, as not only did Michael J. Fox and his band The Pinheads audition in a Battle of the Bands with the Huey Lewis tune “Power of Love,” they did so as Huey himself judged the competition (in character, of course) delivering one of the finer lines of the film: “I’m afraid you’re just too darn loud.”

Watch the full Pinheads audition featuring Huey as well as Marty McFly exacting revenge by ripping up “Johnny B. Goode.” 

Pinheads Audition

“Johnny B. Goode”