Trivia / J. G. Ballard

• Referenced by...:
  • Joy Division's songs "Interzone" and "Atrocity Exhibition" are partly based on Ballard's works (plus William S. Burroughs in the former case), with the latter outright being named after one of his anthologies.
  • The Cosmat Angels are named after one of Ballard's short stories.
  • The Klaxons' debut album Myths of the Near Future is named after one of Ballard's poems.
  • Samples of Ballard's lectures appear throughout King Crimson frontman Robert Fripp's debut solo album Exposure.
  • The Normal single "Warm Leatherette" is based on Crash.
  • The Human League composed an instrumental track titled "4JG" as an homage to the author.
  • Danny Brown album "Attrocity Exhibition"
  • Subverted with Australian band Empire of the Sun, who just incidentally picked the same name as Ballard's book.

Miscellaneous Trivia:

• After rejecting the 1973 novel Crash, one publisher was so disgusted by it that he infamously suggested that Ballard was beyond psychiatric help.

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