I remember this as being a good movie, a futuristic drama about a pop star whose incredible popularity leads to his being controlled by the state and the church to manipulate the population. According to Wikipedia it was heavily indebted to a documentary about Paul Anka so I have to see that now as well.

The title song is great, a mid-tempo pop/rock number with strings and a melodic line that's occasionally reminiscent of "Can't Help Falling in Love". The lyrics are really good too: "Yeah, it's an honor to meet me / An honor to greet me / An honor to have that privilege / You insist that I’m humble / As soon as I grumble / You’ll take away my privilege". It's sung by Paul Jones, the star of the movie.

A slower instrumental variation follows in "Stephen", which in turn is followed by a gorgeous instrumental track called "Vanessa", which features acoustic guitar. It's simple but hypnotic and dreamily wonderful. There's also something about it which makes it hard for me to count even though the drum beat doesn't seem to vary.

Then Paul Jones is back for another great pop/rock number, "Free Me", which has more intensity than "Privilege", a bit of a desperate edge to it.

"It's Overotherness Time" is another variation on "Privilege" but this time with choppy strings and roiling percussion creating a feeling or urgency.

Then after a reprise of "Free Me" there's "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy", a swinging Paul Jones song that almost slides into country or gospel but stays in a pop zone while also perhaps betraying classical music influences in the melody's shape.

George Bean sings the next song, a pop arrangement of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", complete with acid rock guitar.

Pizzicatto strings drive "I'm Alright Jackboot", with drum set coming in now and then to remind listeners of the pop/rock context whil3 arco strings add texture to the pop/rock instrumental "Alvin", another cool tune.

After that George Bean returns with another traditional religious song, this time with "Jerusalem" getting the treatment. This one has a really nice melody and Bean sounds great singing it.

The album concludes with "Birmingham, Oh Birmingham", an intriguing mix of classical chamber group and rock band, with strings, flute and drum set collaborating on a "classical" interpretation of the title song.