Trivia
Original Beat lead guitarist Larry Whitman (September 27, 1955 - July 26, 1997), a devoted fan of Phil Spector, was reported to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Although ruled a suicide the identity of the true trigger puller is highly suspect when circumstances, location and witnesses are taken into account and remains an unsolved mystery. Before joining The Beat, Whitman was Producer, songwriter and member of L.A. pop group Needles & Pins whose only release was the Spector influenced 45 RPM single "Don't You Worry" b/w the ironically titled "I Wanna Play With Guns".
A poster of The Beat's self-titled first album can be seen in the opening credits of some episodes of "WKRP In Cincinnati".
Portions of the album The Kids Are The Same were recorded in 1980 at Twentieth Century Fox Music Scoring Stage during a Musician's Union strike against the motion-picture and television industries. The Beat is quite possibly the only Rock and Roll group to record in this historic studio.
Although The Beat's song "There She Goes" is included on the Soundtrack album of the film Caddyshack and listed in the closing credits it was not used in the final cut of the film.
The True Crime novel "Small Sacrifices" by Ann Rule tells the story of Diane Downs who shot her three children (killing one) and herself in the family car while Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" played on the car stereo. The police report inventory of the glove box revealed the fact that only two cassettes were in the car at the time of the murders. "The Beat" and Duran Duran.
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