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When did William Shatner have a relationship with Joan Collins in the 1930's?
The first two lines should be pretty obvious; Kirk is the captain, and can definitely hold his own in a fight.
The third line is a reference to "The City on the Edge of Forever", which ...
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What was the first sci-fi themed hit song?
Billy Murray - Come Take a Trip in my Airship (1905)
The Billboard 100 didn't exist at the time of its release, but from the small amount of information I can find ...
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What does the line "Take me where I cannot stand" mean?
Joss Whedon wrote the theme song, which is called The Ballad of Serenity. But I have found nothing official that explicitly states a meaning behind the song.
The Battle of Serenity Valley was an ...
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What does the line "Take me where I cannot stand" mean?
An artist is unlikely to give a “one true interpretation” of their work, and I am aware of no official statements as to the specific meaning of any aspect of the song, this line or any other, and I ...
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How much Star Wars music exists in-universe?
There are a few examples of in-universe music in the films and the Rebels tv show (unsure if there are examples in Clone Wars but I would suspect there are)
Cantina Band
The band in the Mos Eisley ...
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Do any Star Trek characters play rock band instruments?
Unnamed holographic musician
Electric Guitar
Depending on your definition of 'Star Trek character' - we do see a presumably holographic member of Vic Fontaine's band playing an electric guitar in the ...
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In-universe, is there an Imperial marching theme?
According to Wookieepedia, referenced to Star Wars Rebels, the answer is yes:
The Imperial anthem was a patriotic musical piece adopted by the Galactic Empire. During Empire Day parades, an upbeat ...
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What was the first sci-fi themed hit song?
TL;DR: I can think of two early Science Fiction songs - one made the Hot 100 charts; the other predates the Hot 100 charts, but was recorded by one of the most successful musicians of the early 20th ...
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What is the first mention of Star Wars in a hit song?
Nils Lofgren sang
I'm gonna take you to see Star Wars tonight
on the live version of Take you to the Movies on the album Night After Night.
The Discogs page ...
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What does the song "Iron Man" have to do with the Marvel superhero?
Ozzy discusses the meaning of the song, and the posted answer above is true. Fast forward to around 22:50 in the interview:
Question: What's the real story behind ...
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Have any of the Star Trek series themes ever appeared in-universe in an episode?
TVTropes has a page about this: Theme Tune Cameo. It lists several Star Trek examples. For example, here's the DS9 theme being played in Quark's bar, in the episode "Sanctuary":
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A short story where popularising math leads to people doing math like "muzak"
A New Golden Age by Rudy Rucker? See Mathematical Fiction for a summary. A few of the details don't match but most of it does:
“The music …” he began. “The music most people listen to is not good.”
I ...
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Is "Miss Clarke and the Computer" (1973) the first published song written from an intelligent machine's point of view?
Earlier came OZ and its strange inhabitants:
From the musical “The Tik-Tok Man of Oz”, 1913.
Words by L. Frank Baum.
Music by Louis F. Gottschalk.
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 ...
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Which songs on the Star Wars soundtracks have vocals?
Music from the Star Wars films with vocals:
I - The Phantom Menace
Duel of the Fates - Epic choral music during the duel between, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, and Darth Maul on Naboo. From Wikipedia:
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What is the first mention of Star Wars in a hit song?
Bill Murray sang the Star Wars theme during The January 28th, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live. The episode included a sketch with Bill Murray playing Nick the Lounge Singer, a parody of a lounge ...
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Story where music is played non-stop
I think this is Ray Bradbury's "The Murderer":
A psychologist exits the noisy environment to confront a patient confined to a small safe-room. The psychologist notes that the man has ripped ...
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What is the track in the Logan (2017) trailer?
Johnny Cash - Hurt1
Released in 2002 for his album American IV: The Man Comes Around.
Originally written and performed by Nine Inch Nails.
Director James Mangold did an interview with Empire magazine, ...
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What are the lyrics to The Children from Game of Thrones S04E10?
Following the horizontal rule is a lot of research I did and some possible lyrics, that now seem made up. I am leaving this in for completeness though it isn't really needed anymore. However, after ...
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Why did David Bowie's proposal for a musical version of Orwell's "1984" fall through?
According to an excerpt from "The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s", the Widow Orwell refused the rights on the grounds that she had no intention of allowing 1984 to be ...
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Is there music in space?
Yes, music does exist off-earth.
For example, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, when Drax tells the story of how he first met his wife, he describes music that everyone was dancing to except her. ...
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Are There Musical Jedi?
Padawan Cal Kestis plays the Seven-stringed hallikset in the game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. It apparently belongs to another former Jedi Knight, Cere Junda.
In the ...
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Is the comic book in the Take On Me music video real?
It was an original work, albeit one based on a comic book that Steve Barron had read as a child, and animated by Mike Patterson.
A concept was devised by Steve Barron, based on a comic book he read ...
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Short story with pianist who has to sacrifice too-heavy piano
Passage for Piano by Frank Herbert.
The main protagonist is Margaret Hatchell:
Had some cosmic crystal gazer suggested to Margaret Hatchell that she would try to smuggle a concert grand piano onto ...
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Why did Silent Running have songs written for it?
In the extras on the Blu-Ray of Silent Running, director Trumbull talks about the great difficulty he had in recruiting Joan Baez to do the title song (and a lovely song at that). Baez wrote the song.
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What other MCU films have ended with existing pop songs over the credits?
They sure have!
Iron Man 2, unlike most other MCU movies, doesn't have a fancy animated credit sequence, but AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” plays over its last scene and continues into the credits.
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What does the line "Take me where I cannot stand" mean?
I always got the impression that it meant "take me where I can't stand to be". As in, "take me someplace terrible, I don't care, I'm still free".
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In which episode of Star Trek did Kirk read the Constitution?
"The Omega Glory". The conceit of the episode is that the Enterprise arrives at a planet where the blond-haired, light-skinned "Yangs" are brutally oppressed by the vaguely-Asiatic ...
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How was music handled in The Hobbit / LOTR novels?
Since the question of how Tolkien envisioned the tunes of his songs is covered elsewhere, I'm going to focus here on the differences between the singing we hear in the films, and what we read in the ...
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