A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) Mary", composed in 1695, for the procession of Queen Mary's cortège through London en route to Westminster Abbey. "March from 'A Clockwork Orange'" (based on the choral movement of the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven) was the first recorded song featuring a vocoder for the singing; synthpop bands often cite it as their inspiration. Neither the end credits nor the soundtrack album identify the orchestra playing the Ninth Symphony excerpts, however, in Alex's bedroom, there is a close-up of a microcassette tape labeled: "Deutsche Grammophon – Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphonie Nr. 9 d-moll, op. 125 – Berliner Philharmoniker – Chor
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