marno@ihuxm.UUCP (Marilyn Ashley) (10/12/84)
Has anybody heard the new version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by William Shatner (yes, Admiral Kirk)? It's being played by some of the local stations in the Chicago area. Very strange and very funny.
lynch@nacho.DEC (If it isn't trivial, it isn't important) (10/18/84)
The rendition of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" sounds like it comes from an album that Shatner did during the original run of Star Trek. The album was entitled "The Transformed Man" (Decca DL 75043). I'm sure it is long out of print. It is an ambitious attempt to use "modern" song lyrics in conjunction with classic (mostly Shakespearean) prose. Shatner recites the lyrics, he doesn't sing them. The following is from the album jacket: ============================================================================== A NOTE FROM THE PRODUCER "The idea of grouping the numbers together in pairs is to unfold multiple perspectives of the same subject, like the two sides of a coin, tension and resolution. For example, in "King Henry The Fifth" (Side 1, Band 1) the intense speech inciting the soldiers to battle is contrasted with the quiet and poignant aftermath of war in "Elegy For The Brave". The other pairs follow a similar design: Side 1, Band 2 ["Theme From Cyrano"/"Mr. Tambourine Man"]: confident self-assurance -- total psychopathic subservience; Side 1, Band 3 ["Hamlet"/"It Was A Very Good Year"]: a desire for death -- the joy of living; Side 2, Band 1 ["Romeo And Juliet"/"How Insensitive"]: fresh young love -- insensitivity; Side 2, Band 2 ["Spleen"/"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"]: utter dejection -- super elation; "The Transformed Man" (Side 2, Band 3) stands alone because of its contrasting three movement form: earthly unreality -- transitional awareness -- contact with divinity." Don Ralke ============================================================================== It is an interesting yet self-conscious album, somehow typical of the mid-to-late '60s and Shatner himself. -- Bill Lynch USPS: Digital Equipment Corp / ZKO2-1/M11 110 Spit Brook Road / Nashua, NH 03082 Tele: (603) 881-2837 UUCP: {decvax,allegra,ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-nacho!lynch ARPA: lynch%nacho.DEC@decwrl.ARPA "Department of Redundancy Department"