HEDWIG's musical influences

[BlueWizard]

HEDWIG's musical influences#0

Posted: 7/18/05 at 11:06am

What were some of Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell's musical influences when writing HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH? Iggy Pop is there, of course, as is David Bowie. Who else?

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[Unknown User]

re: HEDWIG's musical influences#1

Posted: 7/18/05 at 12:01pm

Lou Reed, for sure. This won't entirely answer your question, but Hedwig's oven monologue is somewhat revealing on the subject:

"Late at night, I would rest my head on the top rack . . . and listen to the American masters . . . Toni Tenille . . . Debby Boone . . . Anne Murray - who was actually a Canadian working in the American idiom. Then there were the crypto-homo rockers: Lou Reed . . . Iggy Pop . . . David Bowie - who was actually an idiom working in America and Canada."

[FindingNamo]

re: HEDWIG's musical influences#2

Posted: 7/18/05 at 4:11pm

"Angry Inch" reminds me, in portions, of "Bodies" by The Sex Pistols, a HUGE influence on Trask, obviously.

"Midnight Radio" is a rewrite of Bowie's "Rock & Roll Suicide" from Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Probably other influences, if you ask me: The Buzzcocks.

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[BlueWizard]

re: HEDWIG's musical influences#3

Posted: 7/18/05 at 8:04pm

BUMP

BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."

[The8re phan]

re: HEDWIG's musical influences#4

Posted: 7/18/05 at 8:17pm

I'll throw in Pansy Division

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[Mini_Mimi17]

re: HEDWIG's musical influences#5

Posted: 7/18/05 at 8:50pm

Well I dont know about musical but I know that they based the story on John's neighbor.

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[roquat]

re: HEDWIG's musical influences#6

Posted: 7/18/05 at 10:56pm

KISS, Queen, and any other wildly theatrical glam-rock band...some Meat Loaf...and there are definite suggestions of the Beatles in some of the harmonies and arrangements (of "Wig in a Box", especially).

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."