It may be almost a decade since we were due to see Star Wars Detours, the final project worked on by George Lucas before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, but ten years on we are yet to see the show other than clips and the trailer. Interesting then that Weird Al Yankovic, interviewed on The George Lucas Talk Show discussed the music of the show which was due to feature original compositions by Yankovic.
“We were working on a Star Wars musical, that was a third-season show, we were writing songs, and all of a sudden, it was like, ‘This is not gonna happen’. I don’t know that I’m allowed [to talk about it]. There were, gosh, at least a half a dozen or more songs as part of the musical and the various characters in the show. We actually recorded them singing their songs, and that was about a week before we found out that the show was not happening.”
“It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure they were all original compositions.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
It may be almost a decade since we were due to see Star Wars Detours, the final project worked on by George Lucas before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, but ten years on we are yet to see the show other than clips and the trailer. Interesting then that Weird Al Yankovic, interviewed on The George Lucas Talk Show discussed the music of the show which was due to feature original compositions by Yankovic.
“We were working on a Star Wars musical, that was a third-season show, we were writing songs, and all of a sudden, it was like, ‘This is not gonna happen’. I don’t know that I’m allowed [to talk about it]. There were, gosh, at least a half a dozen or more songs as part of the musical and the various characters in the show. We actually recorded them singing their songs, and that was about a week before we found out that the show was not happening.”
“It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure they were all original compositions.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
Talking with the improvised comedy talk show The George Lucas Talk Show, "Weird Al" Yankovic, has revealed that he recorded music for Star Wars Detours, as well as voicing 4-Lom in the series.
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