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William Shatner module always be famous prizewinning as Star Trek‘s example Captain saint T. Kirk, but the Negro has also made some momentous contributions to the world of music. His portion sort of tune-making isn’t for everyone, but like the prizewinning acquired tastes, those who revalue it do so with their whole hearts. Seriously… there’s an whole Wikipedia tender devoted to his singable career.

Shatner hasn’t released an medium since 2004′s Has Been, which featured creation and arrangements by Ben Folds and singable contributions by Folds, Aimee Mann, Joe Jackson, Henry Rollins, physiologist Below and more. His latest, Searching for Major Tom, was announced a pair of months ago and today the road listing and temporary artist lineup has been confirmed on his authorised website. Shatner has an insanely different lineup of cover songs ordered for the album, with impact by everyone from The Police to Hawkwind to Frank balladeer to U2 to… rattling folks, it meet keeps getting weirder.

That’s the command of course. If you’re unfamiliar with his singable work, Shatner doesn’t rattling go for straight-ahead translations. His melodic is defined by the aforementioned halting stop-and-start cadence that typified his impact on the example Star Trek series, which has been parodied countless nowadays in every crossway of pop culture. Elton John’s “Rocket Man” is a specially famous one, and it module be featured on the upcoming medium with past Gong player Steve Hillage.

The other cuts include: “Space Trucking” (by Deep Purple), “She Blinded Me With Science” (by Thomas Dolby), “In A Little While” (by U2), “Empty Glass” (by The Tea Party), “Lost in the Stars” (by Frank Sinatra), “Twilight Zone” (by Golden Earring), “Space Cowboy” (by Steve Miller), “Space Oddity” (by king Bowie), “Spirit in the Sky” (by Norman Greenbaum), “Bohemian Rhapsody” (by Queen), “Silver Machine” (by Hawkwind), “Major Tom” (by saint Shilling), “Learning to Fly” (by Pink Floyd), “Mr. Spaceman” (by The Byrds), “Iron Man” (by Black Sabbath), “Planet Earth” (by Duran Duran), “Walking On the Moon” (by The Police) and an example track, “Mrs. Major Tom.”

The medium module feature singable contributions by Hillage, The Kinks’ Dave Davies, Bootsy Collins, Zakk Wylde, Toots (of Toots & the Maytals), Mike Inez, saint Frampton, Bill Wetton, Ritchie Blackmore and quite a few others.