The Beepers was an American
music band
A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre. A four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music. In the early years, the configuration was typically two guita ...
consisting of
Anthony Marinelli,
Arthur B. Rubinstein, Brian Banks and Cynthia Morrow. They provided the theme song, "Murphy's Law" for the film, ''
Blue Thunder'' (1983),
their single "Video Fever" and the song "History Lesson" is used in the soundtrack for the 1983
film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
''
WarGames''.
Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli were already known for work together for performances as a
synthesizer
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
duo, such as a live performance of Tchaikovsky's Overture to Romeo and Juliet and other works as an opener for a 1980 concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
[Contemporary Keyboard - Volume 6 -1980 Page 179 "... (Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli, duo synthesists) will offer a live performance of Tchaikovsky's Overture To Romeo & juliet and other works prior to the March 28 concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion ..."]
Banks and Marinelli continue to work together on film music compositions, and with many backing band album credits:
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Pulse (Greg Phillinganes album)
''Pulse'' is the title of the second solo album from session keyboardist Greg Phillinganes. Released on July 17, 1984, the album included what is perhaps Phillinganes' best-known solo "hit," a cover of Japanese synthpop band Yellow Magic Orche ...
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Young Guns (film) soundtrack
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Nice Girls Don't Explode soundtrack
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Baby Be Mine (Michael Jackson song)
''Thriller'' is the sixth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on November 29, 1982, by Epic Records. It was produced by Quincy Jones, who had previously worked with Jackson on his 1979 album '' Off th ...
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Brother Where You Bound
''Brother Where You Bound'' is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1985. It was their first album after original member Roger Hodgson left the band, leaving Rick Davies to handle the songwriting and singing ...
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Behind the Mask (song)
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Internal Affairs (film)
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Unity (Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown song)
"Unity" is a song recorded by Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown as a duet in 1984. It was the first recording in which Brown collaborated with a performer associated with hip hop, a then-new
idiom heavily influenced by Brown's own funk music. ...
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Thriller (Michael Jackson album)
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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
References
American electronic music groups
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