Comments on: Films Illustrated, Vol. 10 No. 113, February 1981 http://robinjohnson.net/wp/films-illustrated-vol-10-no-113-february-1981/ The Life and Career of the Actress Robin Johnson Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:02:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sean http://robinjohnson.net/wp/films-illustrated-vol-10-no-113-february-1981/#comment-6265 Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:02:24 +0000 http://robinjohnson.net/wp/?p=3184#comment-6265 Hi Mandy! If you still had that poster I’d offer you big money for it! Well, I’d offer something, I don’t have big money. But I’ll have to add it to the list of things I know are out there but have never actually seen. But no, I’ve never heard of it before now, thanks.

If Suzi had been asked to write the entire soundtrack, someone was putting one over on her. It was always supposed to be a compilation, like the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It’s possible she was asked to write enough songs to fill one side of the soundtrack album, like the Bee Gees had done, but there were so many people involved in gathering the music that, well, it’s something I hadn’t heard before. I do know that David Bowie, The Clash, and Graham Parker were all asked, or at least considered, for contributions. and Tom Petty was announced as being on the soundtrack even though he wasn’t.

As for Chrissie Hynde, that’s news to me too, but not entirely surprising. I have at least one article yet to post conflating the film’s release with the problem of runaway teens in 1980 England. Robin is asked about it and she answers basically that anyone who can’t see that what happens in the movie isn’t real, or realistic, is just stupid.

But no, none of that has been covered. The “Original Site” (which should load fine, I don’t know why you couldn’t see it) is from maybe ten years ago and covers Robin’s entire career, but in far less depth than the blog. And I don’t keep an email address on the site because when I did, I got tons of spam. Easier to get in touch here or on Facebook, which is where most of the comments end up going. Thanks for posting a comment here! It makes me feel like someone’s actually reading this 🙂

]]> By: mandy http://robinjohnson.net/wp/films-illustrated-vol-10-no-113-february-1981/#comment-6257 Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:49:01 +0000 http://robinjohnson.net/wp/?p=3184#comment-6257 Sorry if this is in wrong place but I couldn’t find an email address. Have been reading through all the posts and would like to add the following which may be of interest. I used to own a large film poster, it was yellow and black with the wording ‘Robin Johnson Face Of The 80’s’, it was a cinema advertising poster and not for general purchase, I can’t seem to find it mentioned anywhere on this site, unfortunately I no longer have it, I actually had it on my wall for around 20 years! Also regarding the soundtrack, I recall Suzi Quatro stating that she had been asked to write the whole soundtrack to the film but her songs were dropped with only the one included, the other songs were released on her album Rock Hard. Also I recall Chrissie Hynde on a kids TV show here in the UK urging people to boycott the film at the time of its release as it glamorised running away! Your original site won’t load so apologies if this has all been covered before.

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