Get the latest gossip

William Shatner Celebrates 93rd Birthday With Tender Vision of the Afterlife, ‘I Want to Be a Tree’

William Shatner turns 93 today, and to mark the occasion he shared a new single about his humble dream for life after death, 'I Want to Be a Tree.'

Like much ofShatner’s music, “I Want to Be a Tree,” finds him not so much singing, but waxing poetically, this time backed by instrumentation from Ben Folds and the National Symphony Orchestra, led by Principal Pops conductor Steven Reineke. “I Want to Be a Tree” will appear on the upcoming album, So Fragile, So Blue, which captures a 2022 concert that was part of Folds’ ongoing “Declassified” series with the National Symphony Orchestra. “Going up into space was beyond anything I could have imagined, and I felt we had to write songs that truly encapsulated the experience… This album is about something we all have in common: this beautiful planet Earth that we all call home.”

Get the Android app