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William Shatner Hopes His Ecological Children’s Album Inspires People to Wake Up to Climate Change
William Shatner talks about AI, climate change, his new children's album, music career and more.
When William Shatner released The Transformed Man in 1968 on Decca, he was still soaring around the galaxy as Captain Kirk on the culture-shifting TV series Star Trek. Songs like “Elephants and Termites” aren’t cutesy sing-alongs; they’re fact-based ecological lessons for kids delivered by a 93-year-old whose interest in the natural world around us still exudes a healthy childlike wonder. So I’ve been able to come up with the idea of [making music by] speaking English in a rhythm and hewing as close to the melodic line as I can without extending the note – which I can’t do, although I yearn to do.
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