The Legendary Rock Band That Almost Starred In A Clockwork Orange

This is a very different timeline, where instead of the Kubrick masterpiece that “A Clockwork Orange” was, we got a film headed up by The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger certainly has charisma and stage presence, but you have to imagine that he wouldn’t have lived up to the pristine acting standard set by McDowell.

The Rolling Stones weren’t the only British rock band considered to work on the film. According to a piece in the Guardian, The Beatles were at one point interested in doing the film’s soundtrack. Changing the film’s largely classical scores to the rock and roll stylings of The Beatles would have drastically shifted the mood of the movie, another change that I don’t believe would have been good for the film.

It’s hard to imagine that version of the film that was discussed. To imagine The Rolling Stones going around committing acts of ultraviolence to a Beatles soundtrack is the sort of made-up movie idea you’d hear in a 1960’s-set “30 Rock” reboot. I think we can all be pretty glad that we got the movie we did, because I’m not sure if the movie version of the British Invasion would have held up as well as the actual film.