From hmartinez@demon.co.uk Tue Nov 28 18:32:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!hmartinez From: hmartinez@demon.co.uk (Hugo Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Nov28.183251.9305@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:32:51 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? 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. Who has pictures of the 1984 promotional posters from Akihabara? -- Hugo Martínez "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Atari TT030 / Linux 1.2.13 From ftanaka@utexas.edu Wed Nov 29 11:17:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!ftanaka From: ftanaka@utexas.edu (Freya Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Nov29.111751.4590@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:17:51 GMT References: <1995Nov28.183251.9305@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov28.183251.9305@demon.co.uk>, hmartinez@demon.co.uk (Hugo Martínez) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Freya Tanaka Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mkang@delphi.com Wed Nov 29 12:50:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!mkang From: mkang@delphi.com (Mateo Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Nov29.125051.4648@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:50:51 GMT References: <1995Nov28.183251.9305@demon.co.uk> <1995Nov29.111751.4590@utexas.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov29.111751.4590@utexas.edu>, ftanaka@utexas.edu (Freya Tanaka) writes: > The Backstory Dataset gave her a fake past in European clubs, but she took those memories and made them real. Please scan that 7-inch cover! Is she wearing the blonde bob in the 1984 photos too? -- Mateo Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0