![]() Besides the obvious Columbia catalog, she plucked stuff from the latter period and even grabbed 'The Girl That Love Made Blind,' which was going to be on the ‘Imaginos’ album. “She’s a huge Blue Öyster Cult fan,” he says, “and you can tell by how deep she went. She could have picked any band.”īlue Öyster Cult’s longtime manager, Steve Schenck, is more sure about Rowling’s affection for the band. Maybe she came to shows as a young lady and saw us play or bought records. So maybe she had had a BOC-painted jacket or saw us at the Hammersmith Odeon or the Manchester Apollo. I think she’s 50, so people who are 50ish, 30 or 35 years ago they were teens and that goes back to our heyday, shall we say. I don’t know if she’s even a BOC fan, but obviously there must be something that she’s referencing. Obviously, some character in the book wanted to shtup me but did not succeed.”Īs to how this all came about, Bloom says, “I don’t know the thoughts in Ms. “Well, I’m not really a fictional character,” he says, being that he still co-leads the band with co-founding guitarist-singer Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser. So, I rang up the real Eric Bloom, now 71, and asked how it felt to be a fictional character. … I was nearly christened Eric Bloom Strike.” … She wanted Eric Bloom, lead singer of Blue Öyster Cult, but never got him. Says Strike: “It was her favorite song, Blue Öyster Cult were her favorite band. The package is accompanied by a note quoting from an early Blue Öyster Cult song "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl)." That happened to be a tattoo that Strike's late mother - a supergroupie back in the day - had inked above her crotch. Early in the book, Strike and his female investigative partner Robin Ellacott receive a severed leg in the mail. He’s playing their music constantly on his iPod. One of the chapters about his perversions is headlined “Subhuman,” after a BOC song. Their lyrics are in his head as he contemplates doing his dirty deeds. The story is told in the third person from Strike’s point of view as well as the unnamed (until the end) killer, who might just be Blue Öyster Cult’s biggest fan. They all have cruelty in their blood and reason for revenge. His nemesis now is a taunting, misogynistic killer, who Strike suspects is one of three people known to him from past exploits. He lost that leg to an IED, fighting in Afghanistan years ago. The third novel in this series - and more are planned - features a crusty, one-legged private investigator in London named Cormoran Strike. Rowling has written more than a few and sold more than 400 million books. “I can’t remember ever enjoying writing a novel more than ‘Career of Evil',” writes Rowling in the author’s note at the end. And she makes lead singer/guitarist Eric Bloom a character, at least in a brief flashback. Those things must have been what Rowling picked up on, as she features no fewer than 50 Blue Öyster Cult song titles or lyric snatches in the book. I wrote this in 1989 about a BOC club show in Boston for the Boston Globe: “They’re melodic, they rock hard and lean they’ve got a knack for merging mordant wit with sharp storytelling.” ![]() (Courtesy Hachette Audio)īlue Öyster Cult (BOC) - which played the Bull Run in Shirley last Thursday - has been a favorite of mine dating back to the early 1970s. "Career of Evil" by Robert Galbraith, the pen name of J.K. Woven throughout the book are the lyrics of the American hard rock/heavy metal band Blue Öyster Cult. ![]() Because lyrics from those aforementioned songs, and many more, are featured in the grisly and gripping “Career of Evil,” Rowling’s third book written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. They might - that is, if there’s a crossover audience that follows “Harry Potter” author J.K. ![]() Will muggles or millennials start Googling and YouTubing “Dominance and Submission,” “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and “Career of Evil”? (Courtesy TKO) This article is more than 6 years old.
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