Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!al From: al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: Science Fiction References in Music Message-ID: <616@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 16:33:26 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.616 Posted: Mon Aug 5 16:33:26 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:43:57 EDT References: <3332@decwrl.UUCP> <217@steinmetz.UUCP> <162@ukecc.UUCP> Reply-To: al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 29 In article <162@ukecc.UUCP> edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes: >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..." >> -- >> C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly > > 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 UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward > Everything Edward says is true except the album name: "A Night at the Opera". -- Al Schwartz Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA {trwrb|allegra|burdvax|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|sdcsvax|aero|uscvax|ucla-cs| bmcg|sdccsu3|csun|orstcs|akgua|randvax}!sdcrdcf!psivax!al or {ttdica|quad1|scgvaxd|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!al ARPA: ttidca!psivax!al@rand-unix.arpa