The blues/garage rock duo The Black Keys have a new album, El Camino, hitting stores on Tuesday. The video for lead single “Lonely Boy” is so fantastic, that I must join the Internets in sharing it with the world.
It’s one man. Dancing. Having the time of his life.
Originally cast as an extra, Derrick T. Tuggle, a 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard, has clearly made a new name for himself – the video has almost 3-million views on YouTube.
Tuggle told MTV:
I was cast as an extra, and there were maybe six or seven other people who were supposedly going to be in the video. … I was the first one to perform in the video. It was a motel shot where the guys from the Black Keys come and give me the keys to their motel room. The director just sort of noticed me dancing and asked me, ‘Can you perform?’ I said, ‘I can dance, anybody can dance,’ so I took some moves from everybody: John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction, the Carlton Banks dance from The Fresh Prince and a little bit of Michael Jackson, so it was a smorgasbord of everybody in there.
Here’s Tuggle in all his glory. The song’s pretty killer too.