A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score Carlos in terms of total contribution to the film, but there remained the opportunity to present the music in a separate album, which led to this collection. The record label did not attempt to use images from the movie on the album cover. The image chosen was a surrealistic collage of objects and images representing ideas in the film by visual artist Karenlee Grant. These included a rifle, an image of Beethoven inside the numeral "9", various mechanical images including a clockwork mechanism superimposed on a sliced orange, dancers representing the classical themes, and so on. This again was not
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