gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson) (03/04/85)
I remember seeing the movie "O Lucky Man" on Cinemax a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it...it was easily the weirdest movie I'd ever seen! But my question is, who did the music for that movie? I remember a few scenes with a band playing live music, but I can't remember who they were. A room- mate of mine last year told me that "Lucky Man" was by Emerson Lake & Palmer, but it's not the same song. So who's the band?!! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: G. T. Samson ARPA: gts@wjh12 [preferred] OR samson%h-sc4@harvard USMail: Lowell H-41, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA 02138 Quote: "No matter where you go...there you are" -- B. Banzai
jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (jeffreys) (03/05/85)
> I remember seeing the movie "O Lucky Man" on Cinemax a couple of years ago. > I really enjoyed it...it was easily the weirdest movie I'd ever seen! > > But my question is, who did the music for that movie? I remember a few scenes > with a band playing live music, but I can't remember who they were. A room- > mate of mine last year told me that "Lucky Man" was by Emerson Lake & Palmer, > but it's not the same song. > > So who's the band?!! > > Name: G. T. Samson > ARPA: gts@wjh12 [preferred] OR samson%h-sc4@harvard *** PLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESS *** I may be wrong, but I belive it to be Alan Price, He, if I remember correctly also stared in the film. I may me thinking of Lucky Jim, I'm sure I will get corrected. -- [ You called all the way from America - Joan Armatrading ] [ You're never alone with a rubber duck - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclamer about anything and everything that I may have typed. || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.leeper) (03/05/85)
REFERENCES: <552@wjh12.UUCP> >I remember seeing the movie "O Lucky Man" on Cinemax a >couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it...it was easily >the weirdest movie I'd ever seen! >But my question is, who did the music for that movie? I >remember a few scenes with a band playing live music, but I >can't remember who they were. For what it is worth, the main score is by Alan Price. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper
tmt@brunix.UUCP (Tom Talpey) (03/06/85)
The music was done by Alan Price and there was a sound track album available at one time. (Was Alan Price once with the Animals or am I remembering some- one else?) I agree that was a very wierd movie... I saw it in 1974 in Woodstock, New York though, which may have colored my impression of it! Tom Talpey, Brown University Network Operations; brunix!tmt
csvsj@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (03/06/85)
Alan Price, the original Animals keyboardist, performed the music for "O Lucky Man" and also appeared in the film as the musician who picked up Malcolm McDowell (I nearly said McLaren!) in the early part of the film. Price is quite witty; he styles himself as an "English Randy Newman". He also covered (in the 60's) the Screaming Jay Hawkins tune "I Put a Spell on You" - if you've seen "Stranger than Paradise", you know all about that baad jam. Steve Jacobson
cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) (03/06/85)
> I remember seeing the movie "O Lucky Man" on Cinemax a couple of years ago. > I really enjoyed it...it was easily the weirdest movie I'd ever seen! > > So who's the band?!! The boys of the band are led by Alan Price (formerly of The Animals). I thought that they cranked out several very decent songs with decent non-conformist lyrics. The songs and the band seem to have blended perfectly with the story - which is loosely modeled after McDowell's life. Mike Cherepov P.S. I did not find it weird.
mgh@hou5h.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (03/07/85)
The music for "Oh, Lucky Man" was written and performed by Alan Price (yes, the same one as was in the Animals all those years ago.) Did anyone notice how Alan's bottle of Newcastle Brown miraculously fills up during the performance of one song? Watch the bottle on the electric piano. -- Marcus Hand (hou5h!mgh)
mgh@hou5h.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (03/08/85)
>[Alan] Price... styles himself as an "English Randy Newman"
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but he did have quite a big hit with
"Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear".
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Marcus Hand (hou5h!mgh)marty@boulder.UUCP (Marty Kent) (03/08/85)
The music to "O Lucky Man" was done by Alan Price, ex keyboardist of The Animals. The soundtrack album came out on Warner Bros.; I don't know if it's still available (I happened to run across it in a used record store). By the way, "O Lucky Man" takes up where Lindsay Anderson's "If" leaves off; many of the characters have the same names and are played by the same actors (most noteably Malcolm McDowell as Mike Travis). Although I'd seen both films (with a large gap in between) I didn't realize this until I saw them together in a double feature. "Brittania Hospital", also featuring Malcolm as Mike Travis, was very much less interesting than "If" or "O Lucky Man". - Marty
rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) (03/08/85)
> > >But my question is, who did the music for that movie? I > >remember a few scenes with a band playing live music, but I > >can't remember who they were. > > For what it is worth, the main score is by Alan Price. > > Mark Leeper And wasn't he the original organist with the Animals? He supposedly left the band during the first American tour because of health reasons. ("The rigours of touring" or something like that according to 16 magazine) *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
manheimer@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ken Manheimer) (03/12/85)
Oh boy - one of my favorite movies, though I couldn't exactly tell you why. I think the song-writer/singer was Alan Price in this harsh and lyrical movie. I've seen an album in a local used record store of the soundtrack, labelled with the movie title but catalogued under P for Price. Yea. Oops, Ken Manheimer seismo!nbs-amrf!manheimer (everything leaks)