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	The Transformed Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Transformed Man was actor William Shatner's debut album, released in 1968, while the original Star Trek series, in which he starred as Captain James T. Kirk, was still on the air.
		Shatner started playing up this aspect of his career in the 1990s as he enjoyed a resurgence of popularity, this time as a pop-culture icon.
		The actor/singer appeared in a number of commercials for Priceline.com, where the unique musical style displayed in The Transformed Man was showcased for humorous effect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Transformed_Man (294 words)

	Revelation
		Man's debut album was definitely not "Beatlesque" but like 'Sgt. Pepper's' and a lot of other sucessful prog albums, it was a serious experiment in breaking down the limitations of pop music, and the preconcieved notions of what pop music was all about.
		Although Man would eventually find a style of music they did exceptionally well, and their later albums would be much less experimental, the early stuff stands up very well with lots of great guitar and interesting production methods.
		MAN, a group of five men from Wales, had definite opinions when making this album--"We thought it was a good idea, and went about it as best we could.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /users/staffba3/man1.html (2234 words)

	William Shatner Album Reviews
		Shatner's first album The Transformed Man still stands as a classic in the "novelty / celebrity camp" department and deservedly so, as listening to this album is an utterly perplexing experience.
		Tambourine Man" and The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." And the results they're astounding, bigger than life mini-operas that somehow managed to combine ultra-expressive and loud music (Stravinsky-meets-Bernard Herrmann!) with Shatner's hilarious spoken word-parts.
		In 1968, he released The Transformed Man, nowadays regarded as a cult classic, as it consisted of Shatner reciting dead serious poetry as well as the lyrics to "Mr.
	www.guypetersreviews.com /williamshatner.php (1205 words)

	Amazon.ca: Transformed Man: Music: William Shatner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Transformed Man is not about Shatner trying to sing (he knows his dramatic reading style is not singing); this is a full-blown concept album of remarkable proportions.
		Tambourine Man for comedic purposes; those guys never play the first half of each track, so it's impossible for the listener to know what Shatner was actually trying to do with this album.
		Tambourine Man. Cyrano is a marvel of self-confidence; he has no desire to prostrate himself before others or to do anything that is not motivated by true art.
	www.amazon.ca /Transformed-Man-William-Shatner/dp/B0006J2G9I (986 words)

	The Transformed Man - William Shatner - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		William Shatner is known first and foremost as Captain Kirk, the central character from the classic Star Trek TV series from the '60s, and a string of motion pictures starting in the '80s, as well as an author of Star Trek-based books.
		While listening to the album, The Transformed Man, it's unclear if Shatner is merely having a good time and goofing around, or if he's embarrassingly dead serious, and creating an overly indulgent work.
		Tambourine Man" and "Spleen/Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Shatner's liner notes from inside the CD booklet were originally penned when the album came out, and sound as if he was legitimately proud of his accomplishment.
	www.mp3.com /albums/155672/summary.html (519 words)

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		But evil forces are afoot in the form of a pair of succubi, whose Earthly mission is simply to harvest corrupt men.
		The man is applauded for his stirring renditions of songs such as Rocketman, Mr.
		Tambourine Man, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
	www.lycos.com /info/william-shatner--transformed-man.html (412 words)

	Sound Space: Science Fiction Audio Reviews
		The front cover shot is a stark photo of Shatner with his hands over his face next to a naked light bulb, but the back cover is a sort of retro-'60s "visual echo" pic that shouldn't have made it past the comp stage.
		Tambourine Man" on "Has Been," but that may only mean that there isn't anything here to keep it alive for the next 36 years.
		An improvement over The Transformed Man, this album has a few catchy tunes and some humor to recommend it along with some good performances from the guest stars.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue395/sound.html (638 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Transformed Man - An Album by William Shatner
		William Shatner is best known for his portrayal of Captain James T Kirk in the original Star Trek series and several subsequent films.
		Transformed Man (Track 11) stands alone because of its contrasting three-movement form: earthly unreality - transitional awareness - contract with divinity
		His guttural scream at the end of Mr Tambourine Man would be quite disturbing, if the listener weren't already induced into gales of laughter at the whole tragic mess.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2334205 (703 words)

	How does He-Man become Prince Adam again? - He-Man.org Forums
		He-man has been knocked unconscious, which is the usual way that guys who can transform regress to the weaker form.
		He-Man just raises his sword and says "May the power return!" And as for the new series, he was tied down by some of EvilSeed's vines so he just kinda layed on the ground and said it.
		I forget the episode, but He-Man was entangled in vines or something, and he called on The Sorceress to help him.
	www.he-man.org /forums/boards/showthread.php?t=124668 (923 words)

	Has Been - William Shatner - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Toward the end of Star Trek's run, William Shatner released The Transformed Man, a collection of spoken word interpretations of popular songs and recitations of poetry pitched halfway between middlebrow art and trippy trendiness.
		With his overheated, hysteric delivery supported by syrupy strings and studio trickery, Shatner sounded like a psychedelicized Rod McKuen, and The Transformed Man was every bit a period piece as anything McKuen penned during that time -- such as the largely (and justly) forgotten Frank Sinatra concept album A Man Alone.
		It may not be an album that's as funny or timeless as The Transformed Man, but Has Been is every bit as bizarre as that cult classic, giving Shatner the distinction of producing two of the strangest footnotes in the history of popular music, as well as celebrity culture.
	www.mp3.com /albums/645946/summary.html (813 words)

	The Transformed Life--Part 4 - John MacArthur
		He was broken, he was re-created a new man, and that was the beginning of the transformation.
		So, salvation is an instantaneous, total transformation in terms of man's nature, and then it takes awhile for the practical changes to affect his life and living pattern.
		The man who will confront the world in the power of the Spirit of God will find that persecution doesn't weaken him, it only strengthens him and helps him to exercise his spiritual muscle so that he will be stronger the next time.
	www.biblebb.com /files/MAC/sg1731.htm (7107 words)

	Burning Man: What is Burning Man?: Timeline
		Burning Man culture continues as the camp site is laid out in direct relation to the Man. The camp convenes in a circle in front of Burning Man, with a main avenue lined with lanterns leading to him.
		Burning Man goes to court: in an attempt to stop the sale of unauthorized nude videos shot in Black Rock City, Burning Man has entered a suit against Voyeur Video requesting an injunction against the distribution of their unauthorized footage from the event.
		The Man stood atop a geodesic dome which housed 11 scientific and celestial artworks, and which was ringed by ten interactive stages, imagined as “alternate universes” where individuals and troupes staged various performances.
	www.burningman.com /whatisburningman/about_burningman/bm_timeline.html (4125 words)

	Matthew Yglesias: The Transformed Man
		Tonight, for the first time I heard William Shatner's 1968 album The Transformed Man which has got to be one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard (Chipmunk Punk may take the cake).
		Tamborine Man!" lyric that Shatner is physically pursuiing said percussionist around the recording studio, a gesture designed to gratuitously demonstrate the awesome technological sophistication that is Stereo, I guess.
		You know, it strikes me that the William Shatner of the "The Transformed Man" era is the artist that Dennis Mandalone dreams of becoming.
	yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2005/04/ithe_transforme.html (2192 words)

	DAN Divers Alert Network : DAN the Safety Man
		DAN the Safety Man is ready at the drop of a regulator to leap into action to help divers in need.
		Once a mild-mannered scuba instructor, DAN the Safety Man was transformed into a dive safety superhero after taking the DAN Oxygen Provider course.
		DAN the Safety Man wants to get the word out about dive safety and has made these tips available for organizations, dive clubs and dive operations and publishers that support DAN and safe diving to use on their websites and in their newsletters and magazines.
	www.diversalertnetwork.org /safety-man/index.asp (234 words)

	William Shatner \| The A.V. Club
		Tambourine Man" from the 1968 album The Transformed Man. While gearing up for a wide variety of events—all of which are detailed on williamshatner.com—Shatner spoke to The Onion A.V. Club about his early school and business failures, his theory of character creation, and his many upcoming projects.
		WS: The Transformed Man was an attempt to illustrate that the lyrics in some modern-day songs are equally evocative as some of the literature that has been written in the English language.
		And "Rocket Man" was a joke—not a joke, but something they asked me to do in a small-show, nightclub atmosphere—and it wasn't going to be broadcast, so I did Frank Sinatra doing that song.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/22587 (3377 words)

	My Man Godfrey
		William Powell stars as Godfrey Smith -- a forgotten man transformed, at the insistence of madcap heiress Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) into the perfect penguin, her witty butler!
		After being "discovered" at a city dump near the water front, Godfrey is whisked by Irene to a catered affair in which the idle rich are gathering "lost" items for a contest.
		Blacks and shadow levels are very weak and there are certain scenes where the grayscale is reduced to either pure fl or white visual representation, with an understandable loss of fine detail and over all image clarity.
	www.mediascreen.com /m/mymangodfrey.htm (524 words)

	Amazon.com: The Transformed Man: Music: William Shatner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Transformed Man is an ego trip of intergalactic dimensions, a pompous "concept album" containing Shatner's "dramatic readings" of song lyrics and passages from poems and classic plays, all set to bombastic music.
		Tambourine Man' and 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' in your life, done in the drunk-as-hell Shatner style, you'll live longer.
		Tambourine Man"), but I think the best part of this CD are the Shakespeare monologues and especially the bizarre and brazenly hammy "Spleen" in which Bill rants about various issues confronting his "bent skull" at sidesplitting length.
	www.amazon.com /Transformed-Man-William-Shatner/dp/B0000014WS (2224 words)

	William Shatner - Biography - AOL Music
		Tambourine Man" from The Transformed Man album in 1968 may be considered classic camp, but Shatner's delivery of those and other numbers long remained in the public's consciousness.
		They helped make him a singing celebrity spokesman in televised advertisements three decades later, thanks to the fact that an advertising man in New York had held onto his copy of The Transformed Man all these years.
		The recording combined cuts from Shatner's The Transformed Man with numbers from a pair of Nimoy's albums, Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy's Mr.
	music.aol.com /artist/william-shatner/44948/biography (556 words)

	William Shatner - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		That 1968 debut, The Transformed Man, has been widely ridiculed for its theatrical, spoken-word renditions of pop songs like "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." But with Has Been, the Emmy-winning actor is having the last laugh.
		The Transformed Man -- good, bad or indifferent -- didn't work because the cuts were too long.
		It seems to me like the big difference between The Transformed Man and your work on Has Been is that there is still a humorous element to some of the album, but it's much more self-aware this time.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,491994,00.html (1509 words)

	dallasobserver.com - News - Shatner, Transformed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shatner had already made The Transformed Man in 1968, which has become the kind of album certain to clear out a room full of stoners.
		Today he merely explains it: "The Transformed Man sought to relate literature that was classical with literature that was topical, and the literature that was topical were songs that were popular in the time I made the record," he says.
		But two years after the idea had been proposed, Shatner and Folds finally went into the studio, not with the intention of remaking The Transformed Man but with the goal of allowing a sincere and intimate peek into Shatner's private life.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2004-10-14/music_1.html (848 words)

	Since first seeing Mr. S, he's been a transformed man \| The San Diego Union-Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's guilty pleasure enough that I actually own a copy of Shatner's 1968 album, "The Transformed Man," on which, while reciting Baudelaire's "Spleen," he sounds like he's trying to shoo a cat from a high tree branch; his speaking the lyrics of "Mr.
		Tambourine Man" sounds like he's summoning a waiter; and his version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is a breathy, psychedelic emote-fest.
		But I've also got a copy of his 2004 "sequel," "Has Been," which is produced by Ben Folds, benefits from cameos by Aimee Mann and Joe Jackson and is practically respectable.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041223/news_lz1w23word.html (383 words)

	Shatner's still the man \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Shatner's best-known musical effort, 1968's infamous thrift-store classic, "The Transformed Man," is a perennial on worst-of lists on both sides of the Atlantic due to Shatner's solemn recital of lyrics by Bob Dylan and the Beatles over syrupy strings.
		But that spoken-word record - which now sells for at least 50 bucks in used vinyl emporiums - won at least one fan who admits he took it seriously.
		Alt-rock pianist-singer Folds says he was - forgive us - transformed by "Transformed Man" when he stumbled across it at a garage sale at age 9.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/44365 (574 words)

	The Transformed Man - review
		Tambourine Man' immediately appealed to me when I first heard it almost 5 years ago now.
		His genius-ridiculous spoken word rendering of the well known Bob Dylan song is something every single human being should listen to.
		Most musicians thesedays don't have half the passion this man displays on this LP.
	www.nefisa.co.uk /reviews_Transformed_Man.htm (1072 words)

	Pac Man
		The evil witch cast a spell on Pac-man, ripping him from his family and hurling him through time to his dangerous past.
		The journey back in time transformed Pac-man into a young Pac-Boy.
		The Ghost Witch sent Pac to 1975, a world which has never heard of the hero Pac-man. Through the witch's foul magic, the inhabitants of a once beautiful land have turned against him.
	techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us /spring0211/pacman.htm (731 words)

	The Oakland Press: Oakland Life: The man comes
		And despite serious artistic intentions, "The Transformed Man" with its dramatic spoken recitations of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and Bob Dylan's "Mr.
		Tambourine Man," was widely lampooned by those who felt Shatner should stick to playing Capt. James T. Kirk in "Star Trek," going where no man had gone before - and preferably as far away from music as possible.
		" 'The Transformed Man,' to me, was a serious attempt at relating classical literature with the literature of the times, which was pop music.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/101004/oak_20041010013.shtml (1201 words)

	PULP CULTURE for DEC. 16, 2004: 'Has-been' Shatner is a 'transformed man'
		PULP CULTURE for DEC. 16, 2004: 'Has-been' Shatner is a 'transformed man'
		And his recently released sophomore album, "Has Been," a follow-up to Shatner's much-maligned 1968 effort, "The Transformed Man," has shocked the world by earning favorable reviews.
		A decade later, Shatner starred as himself in the 1998 comedy "Free Enterprise," written by lifelong "Star Trek" fans Mark A. Altman (former editor of Sci-Fi Universe magazine) and Robert Meyer Burnett (who also directed).
	home.hiwaay.net /~tfharris/pulpculture/columns/041216.shtml (573 words)

	Shatner Films
		There are only two Shatner-tracks on this album (his immortal renditions of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Mister Tambourine Man), but this one adds a lot of other fun material, like House of the Rising Sun by Andy Griffith and Try a Little Tenderness by Jack Webb.
		Usually audio-books read by their authors are something to avoid, as authors don't necessarily have good speaking voices (get any audio-book read by Stephen King or Isaac Asimov and you'll know what I mean), but Shatner does a pretty good job of it.
		Like The Transformed Man, Shatner doesn't sing but sticks with dramatic renditions of the material.
	www.shatnerology.com /discs.html (438 words)

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