From bkowalski@delphi.com Sun Oct 01 21:59:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!bkowalski From: bkowalski@delphi.com (Brian Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Oct01.215943.7552@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 21:59:43 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. Who has pictures of the 1984 promotional posters from Akihabara? -- Brian Kowalski "We don't sign stars. We build them." Amiga 3000T / SunOS 4.1.4 From amoreno@pipeline.com Mon Oct 02 11:40:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!amoreno From: amoreno@pipeline.com (Aiko Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Oct02.114043.1219@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 11:40:43 GMT References: <1995Oct01.215943.7552@delphi.com> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct01.215943.7552@delphi.com>, bkowalski@delphi.com (Brian Kowalski) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? > The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. -- Aiko Moreno | amoreno@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 857D 4EB6 668F 3D78 "Keep the channels open."