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The album consists of songs inspired by the Solar System. There are songs for the system's planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—as well as the dwarf planet, Pluto. There are also songs inspired by black holes, Halley's Comet, the Kuiper belt, the Moon, and the Sun.
The song was played to open night-time transmission of the pirate radio station Radio Caroline. The year following its release, American soft rock duo the Carpenters covered the song, using a crew of 160 musicians. [5] The Carpenters' version reached the top 10 in the UK and Canada, and charted at number 1 in Ireland.
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[8] [n 2] That suite had been performed in London in 1912 and again in 1914; Holst was at one of the performances, [7] and he is known to have owned a copy of the score. [9] Holst described The Planets as "a series of mood pictures", acting as "foils to one another", with "very little contrast in any one of them". [10]
The poem circulated privately for a few years until it was set to music by Holst, to a tune he adapted from his Jupiter to fit the poem's words. It was performed as a unison song with orchestra in the early 1920s, and it was finally published as a hymn in 1925/6 in the Songs of Praise hymnal (no. 188). [3] It was included in later hymnals ...
The lyrics of "Venus" are space-themed, name-checking the planets in the Solar System, with references to the planet's mythical counterpart, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. [13] [19] The extraterrestrial themes drew comparisons to Katy Perry's "E.T." (2011) in the Entertainment Weekly review of the track. [13]
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The song's lyrics imagine the scenario of a lonely and homesick astronaut, in search of other life. Another band to use space as musical inspiration is the Christian " Astro - Rock " group Brave Saint Saturn , whose three albums, So Far from Home , The Light of Things Hoped For , and Anti-Meridian , form a trilogy that chronicles the journey of ...