Brothers of the head cerca di ricostruire, a partire da una serie di racconti spesso inaffidabili, la storia dei gemelli siamesi Tom e Barry Howe – freaks divenuti idoli proto-punk. Nei primi anni ’70 gli Howe, ancora adolescenti, emergono dall’anonimato grazie ad un promoter musicale che li trasforma nella band rock’n’roll The Bang-Bang. Sfruttando la loro diversità e attraverso la loro musica ribelle, i gemelli conosceranno ben presto il successo e tutte le amarezze che lo accompagnano.
Brothers of the Head, grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, narrates the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe – a freak show turned proto-punk sensation. As teenagers in the early 1970s, the Howe twins are plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groom them into the rock-and-roll act The Bang-Bang. The boys quickly appropriate their status as ‘freaks’ and spit it back in the form of aggressive rock. They soon experience success and all the bitterness that comes with it.
