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5 unusual facts about The Breakfast Club


Gareth Knapman

Ubiquity's first venue-based performance was a stage-adaption of the 1985 Brat Pack film The Breakfast Club in Birmingham's Patrick Centre in the Birmingham Hippodrome.

Gil Friesen

Gil Friesen (March 19, 1937 – December 13, 2012) was an American music and film executive known for becoming chairman of A&M Records in 1977 to 1990 after he sold it for $500 million, co-founder of the Classic Sports Cable Network and executive of The Breakfast Club in 1985.

Hands on Me

It was mentioned as a possible choice for the second single in a June 2007 article in Entertainment Weekly, which wrote that it "sounded tailor-made for a rom-com trailer coming soon to a theater near you." Irv Gotti, the head of Carlton's label, The Inc. Records, was quoted as saying that the song reminded him of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club.

Keith Forsey

The popularity of "Flashdance" led to his (co-)writing songs featured on the soundtracks of "Ghostbusters", "Beverly Hills Cop" and "The Breakfast Club".

Out of Focus

This EP features many of Elzhi's collaborators from the legendary Detroit Hip Hop crew, The Breakfast Club(Lacks, Big Tone and Dwele).


Eileen Barton

In 1949 she cut the record of "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" (written by Bob Merrill, Albert Hoffman and Al Trace; Trace used the pseudonym Clem Watts) and introduced it on Don McNeill's radio program, The Breakfast Club.

Opera in Focus

In order to support the puppet opera, Fosser made a living as a set designer and art director in the motion picture industry, working on such films as Ordinary People, Home Alone, Backdraft, Weird Science, Music Box, Damien: Omen II, The Breakfast Club, A League of Their Own and Groundhog Day.

Pixy Stix

Pixy Stix is one of the ingredients used by Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) to make her sandwich in the lunchroom scene of the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club.

The Brat Pack Years

The group of "Brat Pack" actors and actresses, which included Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and Andrew McCarthy, have all appeared in one or more teen oriented coming-of-age films, such as The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink.

The Luck of the Fryrish

Back in the 1980s, a teenage Fry hides the seven-leaf clover inside his Ronco record vault in his copy of The Breakfast Club soundtrack.


see also

Bill S. Ballinger

Working in radio and advertising in the early 1940s, Ballinger wrote 81 radio scripts and produced The Dinah Shore Show, The Breakfast Club, and Lowell Thomas broadcasts.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club initially was broadcast from the NBC studios in the Merchandise Mart.

Snow on tha Bluff

On the Breakfast Club program on New York radio station Power 105.1, Williams described the movie's truthful portrayal of the hood.

We Are Not Alone

"We Are Not Alone", song by Karla DeVito from the soundtrack to the 1985 film The Breakfast Club