Shatner: To be or not to be.

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I must recommend William Shatner’s new album Has Been, it’s a series of spoken word/songs with guest appearances by the likes of Henry Rollings. I first heard about the album, which was produced by Ben Folds, while I was at a Henry Rollins show last winter. Rollins went into a whole spiel on how weird it was putting down some tracks with Bill Shatner.

The album has some good tracks starting with Common People, where Shatner goes on on about how bad it is to be a common person. Also the title track Has Been is a look into how society views an former star. Shatner closes the song with insight:

Has Been implies failure, not so. Has Been’s history.
Has Been’s… was, Has Been… might again.