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1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) is a soundtrack album by the British pop duo Eurythmics. Released on 12 November 1984 by Virgin Records , it was the duo's fourth album overall and contains music recorded by Eurythmics for the film Nineteen Eighty-Four , based on George Orwell 's dystopian novel of the same name .
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel also being born in 1945-46 according to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ...
By 1984, London, with its bomb-proof ministry, is designated as the capital of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, controlled by one all-powerful Party, embodied by the figurehead Big Brother. In the spring of 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the semi-elite Outer Party, encounters Julia, a woman he suspects may be a member of the Thought ...
The Bar-Kays is an American funk band [4] formed in 1964. The band had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (US Billboard Hot 100 number 17, R&B number 3) in 1967, "Son of Shaft" (R&B number 10) in 1972, and "Boogie Body Land" (R&B number 7) in 1980.
"1984" is a song by the English musician David Bowie, from his 1974 album Diamond Dogs, released as a single in the United States and Japan. [1] Written in 1973, it was inspired by George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four and, like much of its parent album, originally intended for a stage musical based on the novel, which was never produced ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (stylized as 1984) is a 1984 dystopian film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel.Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith (Hurt), a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. [6]
This version was named Captain Airstrip One (real name George Smith, a combination of George Orwell and Winston Smith) and was a member of the Thought Police. In Superman: Red Son , Superman (in this setting the ruler of the Soviet Union ) is compared to Big Brother .
Winston Smith (artist) (born 1952), American artist; Winston Smith (athlete) (born 1982), Olympic track and field athlete; Winston Boogie Smith (born 1988 or 1989), American man killed by law enforcement in 2021; Winston Smith, a co-host of The Political Cesspool