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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
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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 
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