Lucifer Rising (1972) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lucifer Rising (1972)

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• Bobby Beausoleil wrote to Anger from Tracy Prison in California suggesting he compose a soundtrack for Lucifer Rising, as they had agreed almost a decade earlier. With help from a prison teacher he got instruments and recording equipment and formed the Freedom Orchestra.
• Mick Jagger was tempted to play Lucifer and composed music for the film on a Moog synthesizer in one night, but his composition ended up in Anger's Invocation of My Demon Brother instead.
• Anger filmed eight minutes of himself as a magus dancing around a magic circle, titled it Lucifer Rising, Part I, and used it to win £15,000 from the National Film Finance Corporation, prompting the Sunday Telegraph to headline "Devil Film to Get State Aid" in March 1971.
• After a falling-out with Jimmy Page's wife Charlotte, who threw him out of their London home in October 1976, Anger gave a press conference saying Page had "dried up as a musician" with no themes, inspiration or melodies to offer.
• Anger accused Bobby Beausoleil of stealing his camera, props and Lucifer Rising footage after Beausoleil left the Westerfeld House, then in October 1967 took out a Village Voice advert declaring his own death as a stunt to protest the limited finances available to independent filmmakers.
• Bobby Beausoleil's 44-minute Lucifer Rising soundtrack was released on vinyl LP in 1980 on the Canadian label Lethal Records, and many of the 1000 copies of that first pressing were sold by Anger at screenings of his Magick Lantern Cycle, which always ended with Lucifer Rising.