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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 13:00:41 EDT
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From: Deryk Barker <DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>

Excuse the tardiness but I have spent a fair portion of this p.m.
ploughing through the last 60+ issues of SFL.

I am amazed that no_one has mentioned what I have long felt to be the
finest SF song I have ever heard "Space Odyssey" by the Byrds (off
Notorious Byrd Brothers 1968).  This is a retelling of Arthur C.
Clarke's "The Sentinel" to a folk-ish melody against an electronic drone
(Beaver & Krause as I recall) Lyrics when I have refreshed my memory.

While speaking of The Byrds I was reminded by someone else of Mr.
Spaceman - another fine song that dumps all over Bowie's Starman on a
similar theme.

The MC5 track referred to is Starship off Kick out the Jams.

Hardly a major theme but as I recall the last man alive on the earth in
Childhood's End finally satisifes his ambition to be the finest pianist
in the world and sits playing Bach waiting for the end.

          deryk.