May 24, 2013
  • Rocket Man, the Shatner version

    Photo credit: Urbanite

    We've already posted our weekly tribute to old school TV, but with the appetite for news about the Swiss Rocket Man, we couldn't help but think of William Shatner.

    Why? Simple, because of his epic spoken-song performance of Elton John's "Rocket Man" during a syndicated 1978 science fiction award show.

    If you've never seen it, click below. If you have, you know you want to. And it's going to be a long, long time before you get it out of your head.

    -- Rolando Pujol

    And Stewie Griffin's version cannot be missed:

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