That’s really weird, because he wasn’t in that movie.
Sorry, long day.
Have you ever seen him and Jennifer Beals together?
Kevin Bacon begged the producers to cast him as the lead in Flashdance. They told him that the part was written for a woman, and he insisted he could play it. That’s why that film makes him so angry.
Kevin Bacon is passionately concerned with OSHA violations, and was outraged by the lackadaisical approach to welding-related safety in the movie.
Obviously you were thinking of “Footloose.” That’s OK. 
I have brain farts after a long day, too. Sometimes even before it’s over. Eh, starts with “F”, two syllables, it’s an easy mistake.
In spite of his protests, he still agreed to play the lead in Flashloose 2 - Flash Harder.
Dumb looks are still free.
He must have been thinking of Footloose.
Dear Og, I hate that movie, despite the fact that I’ve never seen it. My senior year of high school (1984) was plagued by that Kenny Loggins song. I always thought that a school dance should end with a slow dance, but NO, we got the DJ playing the theme from Footloose to end every dance. Dammit, DJ, a high school dance isn’t a rock show! Play me something that might get me laid!
You sure about that? Armstrong didn’t record The Saints until 1938. The only other pre-war jazz recording of The Saints was by Wingy Manone in 1939. The song didn’t really become a Dixieland chestnut until later.
There is a sign in Preservation Hall in New Orleans that is similar to what you describe. You can see it here. Maybe you saw a picture of Armstrong posing with this sign.
Lennon gave an interview to Rolling Stone, which, I believe, was later released as a book, where he ran down the Beatles catalog and commented on each song. I was surprised how he just blew off “And Your Bird Can Sing” as just “slog”, i.e. something to make the LP come out to 14 songs.
David Bowie never ever ever wants to perform “Space Oddity” again.
Last I heard, Arlo Guthrie limits performances of “Alice’s Restaurant” to once a decade.
He claims he isn’t going to tour anymore at all. I hope he backtracks on that one, since I never got to see him.
I saw him ten years or so ago and he opened with it, so I guess we’re due. 
I thought of another weird one: at one of this year’s Bonnaroo press conferences John Oates was being interviewed. The interviewer said something about “your long career, including the music you made with Daryl Hall,” and Oates got really pissy. “Daryl Hall? Who’s that? I thought I was here doing something else.”
It would be more understandable if he hadn’t just finished a whole tour with Hall three days earlier.
(I met him a little bit later and he really was kind of a prick.)
Vanilla Ice used to hate Ice Ice Baby
I don’t think this counts as hate, but Camille Saint-Saens refused to allow his “Carnival of the Animals” to be published during his lifetime because he was afraid it would detract from his reputation as a serious composer. He didn’t want to be known as The Guy Who Wrote “Carnival of the Animals”—which I guess is sort of like Todd Rundgren being known for “Bang the Drum All Day,” or Chuck Berry being known for “My Ding-a-ling.”
That’s not because he dislikes it, it’s because it’s so damn long that there’s not enough time in a single decade to perform it twice.
I have a live recording of “Alice’s Restaurant” that clocks in at 22 minutes and 18 seconds. It includes a humorous anecdote about Chip Carter, President Carter’s son, who found a copy of “Alice’s Restaurant” in Richard Nixon’s record library. The original recording was 18 minutes. This got Guthrie to musing about the infamous 18 minute gap in the White House tapes, as if Nixon had been trying to record the song.
Warren Zevon was very tired of “Werewolves of London”, which was something he knocked off in a couple of hours with his buddies and then had to play in every concert for the rest of his life. But he had fun with it, changing around the lyrics and being generally wild and nutty to amuse himself.
I probably wouldn’t rate that song among Zevon’s top 20.
Firstly it is “Mark”. Secondly he has said more than once he is such a perfectionist he doesn’t like anything he’s ever released because all he can think of is what he should have done better. Thirdly I’m a fan but “One World” sucks dogs balls IMHO.
I heard somewhere that Ravel hated his ‘Bolero’… not his best work of course, but his most famous.
My understanding of the Rachmaninov C#etc thing is that he didn’t hate it off the bat, but grew to hate it because he was asked to perform it so often, that he became jaded with it.