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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Clockwork Orange trivia questions
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 13:50:05 EDT
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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.)
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