{"id":2796,"date":"2011-04-14T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2011-04-14T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T23:24:23","slug":"william-shatner-to-cover-pink-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/04\/william-shatner-to-cover-pink-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner to cover Pink Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this news broke a couple weeks earlier, we could easily have mistaken it for an April Fool&#8217;s prank: TV icon <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> will cover Pink Floyd on an upcoming album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Searching for Major Tom&#8221; will contain 19 cover songs all with a space theme. The Floyd song will be &#8220;Learning to Fly&#8221; from the band&#8217;s 1987 album &#8220;A Momentary Lapse of Reason.&#8221; The track features <strong>Edgar Froese<\/strong> from <strong>Tangerine Dream<\/strong> on keyboards and guitar.<\/p>\n<p>While Shatner&#8217;s first album (1968&#8217;s &#8220;The Transformed Man&#8221;) is of &#8230; er &#8230; questionable quality, but at least one, 2004&#8217;s &#8220;Has Been,&#8221; is, with rarely an exception, top-notch \u2014 due, in part, to collaborator <strong>Ben Folds<\/strong>, in our humble opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Searching for Major Tom&#8221; will also include covers by <strong>Deep Purple<\/strong>, <strong>Thomas Dolby<\/strong>, <strong>U2<\/strong>, <strong>Queen<\/strong>, <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>, <strong>Duran Duran<\/strong> and others.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner announced the album in February, but only just recently announced details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this news broke a couple weeks earlier, we could easily have mistaken it for an April Fool&#8217;s prank: TV icon William Shatner will cover Pink Floyd on an upcoming album. &#8220;Searching for Major Tom&#8221; will contain 19 cover songs all with a space theme. The Floyd song will be &#8220;Learning to Fly&#8221; from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}