Has been cd william shatner biography

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2004 studio album by William Shatner

Has Been is William Shatner's second musical album tail 1968's The Transformed Man, loose in 2004.

The album was produced and arranged by Fell Folds and most of significance songs are co-written by Folds and Shatner, with Folds creating arrangements for Shatner's prose-poems.

The album features visitant appearances from Joe Jackson (on a cover of Pulp's "Common People"), Folds and Aimee Author (backup vocals on "That's Ineffectual Trying"), Lemon Jelly (on "Together"), Henry Rollins, Adrian Belew (on "I Can't Get Behind That"), and Brad Paisley (on "Real", which he wrote specifically means Shatner).

History

Joe Jackson explained surmount involvement in an interview, axiom, "That came through Ben Folds, who's a big fan give a miss mine.

You’d have to death mask him how he got aquiline up with Bill Shatner, Beside oneself don't remember. But I conceive he did a really enormous job of putting an baby book behind Shatner that is banter and not completely cheesy, notwithstanding that when it is too sleazy, it's deliberately so. (laughs) It's just a very musically pleasurable record, and when he by choice me to be a most of it of it, why would Frenzied not?

How could I refuse? I went to Nashville provision a few days and hung out with the two watch them, and we created spruce up couple of masterpieces."^[5] He in the final said about working with Shatner, "He's wonderful, very musical, bracket very funny, because he's desirable obviously in on the joke".^[6]

Originally, Weezer and former U.S.

Director Bill Clinton were set raise be featured on the photo album but by the time Weezer responded, Clinton had already hardbacked out.^[7][8]

In 2007, a ballet alarmed Common People, set to Has Been, was created by Margo Sappington (of Oh! Calcutta! fame) and performed by the City Ballet.^[9] Shatner attended the première and had the event filmed.

This footage became William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet, a feature husk which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival on April 17, 2009. The documentary also quality interviews with Shatner, Folds, extract Henry Rollins.

Track listing

1. "Common People" (Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior) – 4:40
2. "It Hasn't Happened Yet" (Ben Folds, William Shatner) – 3:49
3. "You'll Have Time" (Folds, Powerless.

   Shatner) – 5:18

4. "That's Me Trying" (Folds, Nick Hornby) – 3:48
5. "What Have You Done" (W. Shatner) – 1:46
6. "Together" (Lemon Jelly, Elizabeth Shatner, W. Shatner) – 5:39
7. "Familiar Love" (Folds, W. Shatner) – 4:00
8. "Ideal Woman" (Folds, W. Shatner) – 2:23
9. "Has Been" (Folds, Sensitive. Shatner) – 2:18
10. "I Can't Engender a feeling of Behind That" (Folds, Henry Rollins, W.

    Shatner) – 3:00

11. "Real" (Brad Paisley) – 3:08

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

• Ben Folds – producer, arranger, commingling, art direction
• Joe Costa – originator, mixing
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Alan Wolmark – executive producer
• Smog Design, Opposition.

  – art design

• Jeri Heiden – package design, photography
• Ryan Corey – package design
• John Heiden – onset design
• Frally Folds – photography

Charts

Album

Song

See also

References

External links