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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
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Subject: Re: Re: Science Fiction References in Music
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 16:52:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 16:52:13 1985
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In article <217@steinmetz.UUCP>, connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) writes:
> There's a song by Queen on the same album that had "Bohemian Raphsody"
> on it (is that name right??), which seemed to me to refer to the effects
> of Special Relativity - the following lines come to mind:
> 
> 	"Don't you hear me call, though you're many years away?
> 	 Don't you hear me calling you?
> 	 Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
> 	 In the land that our grandchildren knew..."
> 
> Listening to the whole song makes it more obvious, I think.
> -- 
> C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly
> 	   ,      ,	  ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd
> An rud a bhionn, bionn.

	Quite right. The album is "A Day at the Races" (it's
basically all white) and the song is "Thirty Nine" (I think. I
haven't heard it in years.). The overall theme of the song
seems to be time travel.

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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