O Lucky Man!--II

I said before that I hoped someone would upload on YouTube the last version of Alan Price's song "O Lucky Man!" in the eponymous movie by Lindsay Anderson.

And luckily, someone has, but this someone is at the very least obsessed with Helen Mirren, because he is uploading rips of all the scenes she appears in from all her movies. That's why if you want to see the more rocking version of this song, you have to wait until the last two minutes of this clip.



The finale of the movie is like one huge wrap party, in which first Lindsay Anderson, the director, and then various actors in the film, such as Mirren and Rachel Roberts, greet Mick Travis, played by Malcolm McDowell.

Unfortunately. O Lucky Man! has not been released on DVD, but the first Mick Travis movie, If..., has just been, by Criterion, and I'll probably have something to say about it later.

"Don't you always?"

"Are you sure you're in this class?"

Good Movie Rock, pt. 2

Another way to use rock music effectively is to have a rock songwriter write the music and songs for your movies. I realize this is a matter of taste; I like the work Alan Price, original keyboard player in the Animals, did for Linsday Anderson in O Lucky Man! The title song summarizes what will happen to the main character, Malcolm McDowell, during the course of the movie. (Anderson is in the black leather jacket during this clip.)



I wish someone had posted the reprise of the song at the end of the movie: it rocks more, and we can see a young Helen Mirren dance, somewhat unmajestically.