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Nizzy 
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Posted: October 19 2004 at 06:53 |
'Ere's one for ya!
Which science fiction/ novel by whom features a spaceship named, word for word, after a kinda unappreciated album by a male rock legend and his band, formed after he left one of the biggies?
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 19 2004 at 17:28 |
Douglas Adams?
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy:
(The)Heart Of Gold = Spaceship
=Neil Young Album.
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Nizzy
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Posted: October 19 2004 at 17:53 |
Hiya Reed.
Right nationality for the author, but the artist in question found that this album crashlanded a bit after the mega success he'd been enjoying with one of the biggest bands in the world (although I bet a few Archives users rate it).
He bounced back though, first with his own crew, then (briefly) with another massive band before getting back with his old mates, where he remains to this day.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 19 2004 at 18:14 |
 Nizzy wrote:
Hiya Reed.
Right nationality for the author, but the artist in question found that this album crashlanded a bit after the mega success he'd been enjoying with one of the biggest bands in the world (although I bet a few Archives users rate it).
He bounced back though, first with his own crew, then (briefly) with another massive band before getting back with his old mates, where he remains to this day.
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Just goes to show there's always more than one correct answer...
As Heart Of Gold fits the answer criteria perfectly.
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Nizzy
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Posted: October 19 2004 at 18:18 |
Heart Of Gold was on Harvest, which was hardly unappreciated. Most Young fans would rate it pretty highly, not to mention all those who never bought another one of his albums afterwards. 
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 10:10 |
Sorry,I was being petulant.
No Idea giz another clue mate.
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Nizzy
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 14:30 |
OK Reed, seeing as its just you and me who are playing!
There might well have been another ship here called the Scarabus - but there wasn't! Think Stonehenge/Reading...
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Nizzy
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 18:58 |
The novel in question is Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks. Somebody!!!! 
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 19:04 |
Ian Gillan!
I wouldnt mind but I have read this book.
Naughty Boy: Iain Banks is Scottish aint he?
(Douglas Adams is English)
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Reed Lover
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 19:29 |
Reed Lover wrote:
Ian Gillan!
I wouldnt mind but I have read this book.
Naughty Boy: Iain Banks is a Sweaty Sock aint he?
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Nizzy
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Posted: October 20 2004 at 21:25 |
Reed! Exactly - same nationality, i.e. UK, loyal subjects of HM the Queen etc.
Well done mate, the ship is called the Clear Air Turbulence.
Sorry there isn't a prize but award yourself a hearty pint for being the only person to enter my first trivia question. 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: October 26 2004 at 07:33 |
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On the same kind of theme -
Which prog band had a novel written about them as interspace heroes by one of the masters of the sci-fi genre, and what was the name of the novel?
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 26 2004 at 07:44 |
Tempted to say a Michael Moorcock novel - who before Terry Pratchett arrival sold most SF novels in the UK. He also appeared on stage with Hawkwind, wrote the lyrics and did an album or two. So fictionalised in one of the first 4 Jerry Cornelius books??????
Or was it a Mick Farren novel - Farren was the original vocalist of the Social Deviants , who dropped the 'Social' bit and recorded Ptoof! with its great fold-out Roy Leichenstein cover? Farren has long written SF novels - he's much better at the writing than the singing.
Talking about people who are better at something other than being rock stars. Did anyone see food-writer and ocasional style guru, Lloyd Grossman's picture in the Times Art supplement last Saturday, showing him playing many years ago in a New York band , doing Ramones covers.....................
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Jim Garten
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Posted: October 27 2004 at 03:23 |
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Close, Dick -
It was indeed Michael Moorcock, writing about Hawkwind as interstellar heroes in his novel "Time Of The Hawklords"
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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dude
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Posted: October 27 2004 at 07:46 |
HEY GUYS I SEEM TO REMEMBER RAEDING "TIME OF THE HAWKLORDS" YAERS AGO!! DIDNT MOORCOCK WRITE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE?...I THINK HIS NAME WAS BUTTERWORTH..
OR AM I THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE
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