Luke Sterne

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Pop singer from the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange (novel by Anthony Burgess), 1962.

I fumbled out the deng to pay and one of the little ptitsas said:
"Who you getten, bratty? What biggy, what only?" These young devotchkas had their own like way of govoreeting. "The Heaven Seventeen? Luke Sterne? Goggly Gogol?" And both giggled, rocking and hippy. Then an idea hit me and made me near fall over with the anguish and ecstasy of it, O my brothers, so I could not breathe for near ten seconds.

Sterne was replaced by Johnny Zhivago in the film version of this dialogue.