From flindqvist@kth.se Tue Oct 22 01:27:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!flindqvist From: flindqvist@kth.se (Fiona Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Oct22.012712.4730@kth.se> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:27:12 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. I still have the 1984 'Sparkle Soda' 7-inch single. The contrast with 'Threshold' is mind-bending. -- Fiona Lindqvist | flindqvist@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: E5A0 1402 95AA 19CB "Keep the channels open." From vsato@tum.de Wed Oct 23 20:15:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!vsato From: vsato@tum.de (Valeria Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Oct23.201512.9180@tum.de> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:15:12 GMT References: <1996Oct22.012712.4730@kth.se> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct22.012712.4730@kth.se>, flindqvist@kth.se (Fiona Lindqvist) writes: > Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. > Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Valeria Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0