William Shatner
TRACK: WILLIAM SHATNER FEAT. RITCHIE BLACKMORE AND CANDICE NIGHT ON COVER OF BB.KING’S ‘THE THRILL IS GONE’
Former Deep Purple axeman Ritchie Blackmore joins William Shatner for a heart-rending take on the blues classic from Mr. Shatner’s new album The Blues coming October 2 via Cleopatra Recordings. A livelier rendition of BB King’s classic thats has been treated with respect. Blackmore is just Blackmore and simply amazing like only he can be. …
TRACK: William Shatner and Canned Heat decide: ‘Let’s Work Together’
AND now he’s back. From outer space. The rebellious re-interpreter of “Mr Tambourine Man” and “Lucy in the Sky in Diamonds” on his album, The Transformed Man, in 1968. Brilliant bewitcher and bemuser of lyricist Bernie Taupin at the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards in his theatrical, declamatory, absolutely seminal take on “Rocket Man”. And …
Not Forgotten: William Shatner – Has Been
Can you imagine trying to pitch a William Shatner album to a record label in 2003? For decades he had been sniggered at for his various attempts at ‘singing’, with his much derided rendition of “Mr Tambourine Man” being a subject of much criticism down the years, though the reaction to that was nothing compared …