Jubilee soundtrack
Audio Cassette
1978 (Released)
1978 (Released)
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This is the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film Jubilee. Directed in 1978, the film had a cast featuring Adam Ant, Toyah Wilcox and Little Nell (famous for her rôle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)). It also featured appearances by Wayne County, the dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, and Steve Severin and Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees. The film concerns Queen Elizabeth I who has been transported to a bleak and decrepit contemporary Britain (reflecting the decline of 1970s Britain), to find Queen Elizabeth II dead after a mugging, and Buckingham Palace taken over by a group of punks who have turned it into a recording studio. History is being rewritten by subversives and a gang of misfits take part in mass violence, sexual depravity and anarchy. Jubilee represents a stylised contemporary account of the impact of the punk movement in Britain.
The soundtrack features contributions from punk bands Chelsea (members of which would go on to form Generation X), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wayne County, Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant and experimental ambient composer Brian Eno.
The soundtrack features contributions from punk bands Chelsea (members of which would go on to form Generation X), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wayne County, Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant and experimental ambient composer Brian Eno.
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Title | <i>Jubilee</i> soundtrack |
| Brief description | Audio cassette soundtrack for Derek Jarman's film Jubilee. |
| Credit line | Given by Keith Collins |
| Summary | This is the soundtrack to the Derek Jarman film Jubilee. Directed in 1978, the film had a cast featuring Adam Ant, Toyah Wilcox and Little Nell (famous for her rôle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)). It also featured appearances by Wayne County, the dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, and Steve Severin and Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees. The film concerns Queen Elizabeth I who has been transported to a bleak and decrepit contemporary Britain (reflecting the decline of 1970s Britain), to find Queen Elizabeth II dead after a mugging, and Buckingham Palace taken over by a group of punks who have turned it into a recording studio. History is being rewritten by subversives and a gang of misfits take part in mass violence, sexual depravity and anarchy. Jubilee represents a stylised contemporary account of the impact of the punk movement in Britain. The soundtrack features contributions from punk bands Chelsea (members of which would go on to form Generation X), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wayne County, Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant and experimental ambient composer Brian Eno. |
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| Accession number | S.1314:1 to 3-2010 |
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| Record created | November 23, 2010 |
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