rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (07/06/84)
Well, I didn't expect to get a flurry of answers to my trivia question on the record store scene in A Clockwork Orange, but I did. Most everyone who answered (including Paul Munro and Mark Johnson) knew that the soundtrack album prominent in the record bin was the British version of the soundtrack album for 2001: A Space Odyssey. But only Kenn Barry knew that the name of the band who got their name from the list of band names on the "record chart" on the wall. The band listed there was the Heaven Seventeen, and that name was taken by a modern day band actually called Heaven 17 (without the "the", and not "seventeen" spelled out). Another band listed on the chart (though I don't recall it being in the book) was Sparks. I'm not sure if Sparks (the real band) actually got their name from this chart in the movie, but I believe at the time the movie came out they went under the name Half Nelson, so it is possible. By the way, for those who care, Heaven 17 was founded by ex-members of the Human League, who split in two prior to "Don't You Want Me, Baby" megasuccess followed by obscurity. (Producer Martin "I'll-produce-anybody-with-a-drum- machine" Rushent was disappointed that the League could not reproduce the "magic" of Don't You Want Me on subsequent efforts.) -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (07/09/84)
Having not seen the movie in a while, I'm not sure whether this is true or
not but a friend told me that The Stray Cats were also either mentioned or
on the wall chart. There apparently was also another movie that starred a
fictional group called The Stray Cats and the real group may have taken
their name from that movie rather than Clockwork Orange.
I didn't realize that The Human League had fallen into obscurity. They
have remained popular here since "Don't You Want Me" with hits "Mirror
Man", "Fascination", and the current single "The Lebanon", which is one
of the best songs I've ever heard from them and features an amazing new
instrument they have just discovered: the guitar. I believe they're now
being produced by Chris Thomas.
Jeff Richardson
DCIEM, Toronto