Trainspotting hits the screen
Based on Irvine FEBRUARY 23 Welsh’s 1993 novel, director Danny Boyle’s film Trainspotting is released. The scabrously entertaining story of heroin, friendship and betrayal is also celebrated for its soundtrack, which captures popular taste in flux with its juxtapositions of druggy ’70s music from Iggy Pop and Lou Reed (Eno’s Deep Blue Day memorably accompanies a disgusting/magic-realist passage during which a character dives into a toilet to recover some opiate suppositories), Britpoppers Pulp and Blur and exuberant techno by Underworld and Leftfield. Released in July, the soundtrack album will sell in platinum quantities, though legend has it that Noel Gallagher refused a request to include Oasis because he thought the film was about trainspotters.