Trivia / The Prodigy

• Died During Production: Keith Flint committed suicide on March 4, 2019. No Tourists was the final album to have any contributions from him.
• One-Hit Wonder: Not as much internationally, but in the US; "Firestarter" was the only track of theirs to hit the Top 40.
• The Pete Best: The Prodigy used to have a female dancer named "Sharky". She left before their first album was released. You can see her make a cameo in the video for the Pendulum remix of "Voodoo People."
• Troubled Production: The tunnel/sewer from the "Firestarter" video (actually the abandoned Aldwych tube station on the London Underground) was indeed as dank and dirty as it looks - the production crew were forced to wear masks during the shoot, while Keith Flint had to breathe all that dust in for a full day of shooting. Poetically, this was also the case with "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of the song for The Weird Al Show, which was filmed in an actual sewer. Al referred to it as "the foulest-smelling place [he'd] ever been."
• Referenced by...:
  • Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has an event called The Prodigy, featuring a bard named Keith introduced arguing with a cleric... that once struck by the player, leads to Keith singing "Smack my bishop! Smack my bishop!" (or in case a torch is pulled, "You are a firestarter!")
  • Hot Pants from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run possesses a Stand known as Cream Starter, which is meant to be a partial reference to "Firestarter".
  • The Amazing Worldof Gumball once had a first-person Gluttony Montage scored by techno music in a clear homage of the "Smack My Bitch Up" video.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Their 2002 single "Baby's Got a Temper" was going to be featured on the album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, but Liam Howlett quickly got disillusioned with the song.
  • The famous "Firestarter" was recorded as an instrumental, until Howlett showed the song to Keith Flint, and, well, the rest is history.
    Liam Howlett: I recorded it as an instrumental. [...] And as usual, all three of the others come round to have a listen. Keith happened to be the first, and I said to him, "We need one more element." Now I’d have been happy with a good sample, but Keith says, "I’d really like to try some vocals on that." And I’m like, "Whaaaaaaat?!”