Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Science Fiction References in Music: Who started it? Message-ID: <1649@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:07:24 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1649 Posted: Tue Aug 6 11:07:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:54:53 EDT References: <1189@pucc-k> Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP ( Richardson) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 22 Summary: It's pretty silly to try to list all of the Science Fiction references in (rock) music because there are so many of them, but one thing I've often wondered is, "who started it all?" As far as I call tell it was Pink Floyd who, as early as 1967 were doing songs like "Astronomy Domine", "Interstellar Overdrive", "Point Me To The Sky" and "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun". These songs aren't Science Fiction stories the way some of the later Science Fiction songs were; in fact, "Interstellar Overdrive" is an instrumental, but the titles go well with the "cosmic" sound of the music, and just the fact that they are Science Fiction references could have paved the way for later compositions on related subjects. I think that most of the above Pink Floyd songs pre-date the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years From Home" by at least a couple of months. A friend of mine claims that when the then-unknown Pink Floyd was recording their first album, the Rolling Stones were in the next studio and heard what was going on, and that's what gave them the idea for "2000 Light Years" and some other spacey-sounding songs that they did around that time. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff