LOS ANGELES, -- U.S. actor William Shatner, former star of
"Star Trek" and "T.J. Hooker" will have an album entitled
"Has Been" released Oct. 4. XFM.com reported Monday the
album includes a cover version of Pulp's "Common People"
with Shatner doing a duet with 1980s singer songwriter Joe
Jackson. Also included in the album are the song "Trying"
performed by Shatner, Ben Folds and alternative rock singer
Aimee Mann, and a track called "I Can't Get Behind That"
sung with Henry Rollins, XFM.com said. "It is a great
record and it is really worth going out and doing some
shows in major cities," Folds told Billboard. Shatner was
"not a musician at all. But he is still part of the music.
I've never heard a record quite like it."

Ben folds been helpin him



at least the piano will sound tight in it

Sweet! Hope we get some cowbell...

Rollins talked about that track on his last spoken-word tour. He'll say something like, "coach seating on an airplane," then Shatner would say, "I can't get behind that!" It might have been the other way around. Guitar on that track is played by - oh, I forget, Robert Fripp?

Edit - guitar by Adrian Belew.
[Edited 9/22/04 9:32am]

I will say Thats Me Tryin on the disk is actually pretty good.. piano driven with Ben Folds and Amie Mann... (mispelled name)

quite humorous

Anxiety said:

Believe it or not this is not William Shatners first recording!! hahahaha My mom has record of him doing some sort of spoken word!! I think it is pretty funny!! Love me some Shatner dats a cool ass funny man right there!!!!

Okay. This goes straight to my Christmas wish-list...

this is TOO much! What a fitting title!

nammie said:

Yeah, he does "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." :shiver:
[Edited 10/5/04 8:35am]

OdysseyMiles said:

OdysseyMiles said:

LMAO!