Alex: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
The first I heard of Clockwork orange is when David Bowie started name dropping it along with Caberet as an influence on his music. Kids at school had the book and it was passed around the whole year. The film was a hard one because it was one of the first R rated films and we were young teenagers. I didn't get to see the film until quite a few years later when I caught it at a late night session at Trak cinema in Toorak. Until video came along we would traipse drunkenly to late night cinemas catching rare films. This film refused to come out on video.
The only time I got a copy was in the 90s when Ian Q from the Lizard lounge brought me in a video. It had a great photocopied cover and Swedish subtitles.
Back to the early 70s and I bought the album and lived the movie through the photos on the cover. A few years later I went to a fancy dress party as Alex. Little Murders even used a bit of Walter Carlos Beethoven from the OST one night to introduce the band something we copped off Bowie. Only one night because everyone thought it sounded daft before our kind of music.
My friend Paul as a autographed copy of the album ..Malcolm McDowell signed it. I'm so jealous.
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