| | |  Entertainment | November 2009 
Stephen Hawking 'Sings' on Pop Single Tribute to Scientist Carl Sagan
 Telegraph UK
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November 11, 2009
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A new pop single featuring lyrics spoken by wheelchair-bound theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has gone on sale, as a tribute to his fellow astronomer Carl Sagan.
A Glorious Dawn mixes dialogue from Sagan's 1980s TV show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with Prof Hawking's voice.
Produced by White Stripes frontman Jack White's Third Man Records label, composer John Boswell set the lyrics to various instruments for the seven-inch single.
The release is timed to coincide with what would have been Sagan's 75th birthday. He died in 1996 aged 62.
One-hundred-and-fifty limited edition versions of the single will also be made.
Prof Hawking, 67, author of A Brief History of Time, suffers from neuro muscular dystrophy and uses a voice synthesizer to communicate as the condition has left him paralysed.
He stepped down from role as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University last month after 30 years.
Sagan was an American astronomer and author who became world-famous for writing popular science books and presenting Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
He also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 film of the same name. |
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