In the music industry, there's one man whose name is practically synonymous with unintentionally hilarious songs (apart from William Hung, or Soulja Boy, or Limp Bizkit, or Kevin Federaline, or...). One man whose foray from sci-fi television to the recording studio left behind a wave of unexpected fans (mostly dopeheads and masochists). Now he's doing it again. For a third time.
That's right. William Shatner is making a third album.
He first showcased his musical "talents", with his 1968 album The Transformed Man. The most famous track from this album has to be his cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man":
His unusual spoken-word performance style was presented to a wider audience a decade later, when he sang Elton John's "Rocket Man" at the Science Fiction Film Awards in 1978. How the audience made it through the whole thing without laughing, we'll never know:
He made a second album called Has Been in 2004, with help from some actual artists like Joe Jackson and Henry Rollins. Shatner's new album, scheduled for release later this year, is titled Searching For Major Tom. The track list, which has a distinct sci-fi theme, includes David Bowie's "Space Odyssey", Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and a re-mix of "Rocket Man".
Just for the heck of it, here's one more Shatner gem. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds:
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