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From: br@cstvax.UUCP (Brian Ritchie)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Music in Science Fiction
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 09:03:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 09:03:52 1985
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Reply-To: br@cstvax.UUCP (Brian Ritchie)
Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
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Keywords: Norman Spinrad

...then there's the short story from Norman Spinrad's `No Direction Home'
anthology, titled `The Big Flash' (I think), wherein a rock group called The
Four Horsemen get to be quite important.

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  They live out their name by giving a concert televised world-wide that
psyches everyone into setting of their entire nuclear arsenals (hence the
title).  That they're going to do something like that is fairly obvious from 
the start (although their manager only sees $$$), so I don't think this is much
of a spoiler; the power of the tale is in the way Spinrad tells it.  I'm sure
he was thinking of The Doors!

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