Star Wars and other Galactic Funk

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After reading this blog post about all the funky disco tie ins that were released to cash in on the success of Star Wars, I wanted to track some down to actually listen to. Here are some samples of what I found:

First Up, Living in These Star Wars by the Rebel Force Band

Next up, Star Wars & Other Galactic Funk by Meco. Now the first track alone is 15 minutes, so just to give you a taste, here are the first three minutes:

I LOST MY HEART TO A STARSHIP TROOPER by Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip: read more

The Perfect Movie

I recently stumbled across this film review of Star Wars printed in the July 22nd 1977 Edition of National Review:

THE PERFECT MOVIE

A small percentage of the hundreds of motion pictures made each year are hard-core, X-rated stuff, reviewed only in specialized magazines and designed for a selected, if not select, audience. A few dozen are G-rated, most of them destined for short, profitless lives (the myth that there is an immense demand for “family” pictures is almost always exploded at the box office). The rest are rated PG—which means that parents will usually be guiding their children into films short on nudity but long on violence—or R, which category differs from X in the explicitness of the sex, but not in the amount of gore. read more

The Death Star Plans…

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Are now in the main computer:

 

 

 

 

Here is mine: I unpacked it from Storage in England over the summer, and brought it back to the USA for my kids to play with…

 

 

 

Here the kids and I stage a scene that wasn’t in the original movie, but must surely have happened. The Emperor inspects the first Death Star…