From soliveira@uni-hamburg.de Mon Oct 24 09:42:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!soliveira From: soliveira@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Oct24.094207.9789@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 09:42:07 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. I still have the 1984 'Sparkle Soda' 7-inch single. The contrast with 'Threshold' is mind-bending. -- Sven Oliveira Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From dnovak@titech.ac.jp Tue Oct 25 01:53:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!dnovak From: dnovak@titech.ac.jp (Dave Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Oct25.015307.8130@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 01:53:07 GMT References: <1994Oct24.094207.9789@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct24.094207.9789@uni-hamburg.de>, soliveira@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Oliveira) writes: > Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. > By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. -- Dave Novak Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre. ------------------------------------------------------------