A Clockwork Orange (novel) Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex. A 1965 film by Andy Warhol entitled "Vinyl" was an adaptation of Burgess's novel. In 1987 Burgess published a stage play titled "A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music". The play includes songs, written by Burgess, which are inspired by Beethoven and Nadsat slang. In 1988, a German adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" at the intimate theatre of Bad Godesberg featured a musical score by the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which, combined with orchestral clips of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and "other dirty melodies" (so stated by the subtitle), was released on
History of the punk subculture and William S. Burroughs. Kerouac's "On the Road" gave Jim Carroll the impetus to write "The Basketball Diaries", perhaps the first example of punk literature. George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" might have inspired much of punk's distrust for the government. In his autobiography "No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish!", John Lydon remembers the influence that film version of "A Clockwork Orange" had on his own style. John Waters' 1972 underground classic, "Pink Flamingos", is considered an important precursor of punk culture. Punk rock has a variety of origins. Garage rock was the first form of music called "punk", and