Songs:The Unofficial Ballad Of Story Magazine (94845)
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"The Unofficial Ballad of Story Musgrave," about a seriously (in real life) straight-laced astronaut. I can't imagine what would possess somebody to write a song about Musgrave to start with, much less this one in particular, with the first-person narrator braying "I'll tell all the chicks I'm an astronaut, I bet that'll get me laid." It does make one curious about the story -- or, one almost wonders, the Story -- behind the ballad. The laid-back near-talking-blues arrangement pushes the already unhinged lyrics into a realm of almost disorienting absurdity, with the Musgrave character trashing Houston as a smelly hellhole, swearing eternal enmity to monkeys and recounting a close call with a bladder accident. I hope all of this didn't drive the actual Musgrave to his attorney's office. Then again, it's at least possible that even clean-cut astronauts can take a joke. [1]
Story Musgrave is one of NASA's most experienced astronauts. With a 30 year career spanning the Apollo era of the 1960s right through to the Space Shuttle program of the 1990s, he is the only astronaut to have flown on all five Space Shuttles. He is also a pilot, surgeon, mechanic, poet and philosopher. [2]
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