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French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre will team up with Queen guitarist Brian May for an exceptional one-off live concert event to open this year’s Starmus Festival in Slovakia on May 12.
With a theme this year of ‘Starmus Earth: the future of our home planet’, the five-day event, which runs from May 13-17 is a gathering that convenes Nobel laureates, scientists and researchers, astronauts, intellectuals and artists for lectures and discussions on topics including environment, AI and cybersecurity, and space, as well as featuring the annual presentation of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, for which Jean-Michel Jarre was a recipient in 2017.
“As we continue to learn from the past, we should today listen to the future, being receptive and attentive to the incoming signals,” says Jarre. “Breakthroughs, discoveries, and solutions, in all fields exist already there ahead, in the future, waiting for us to find them. It is our vocation as artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and citizens, to engage and activate progress, in creating a bridge from the future: this is the spirit of Starmus.”
Jarre’s concert kicks off the event and takes place in cooperation with the City of Bratislava, is free to attend and will be televised on Slovakian National RTVS as well as globally via the EBU network and live-streamed on Jean-Michel Jarre’s YouTube channel.
tarmus was founded by astrophysicist Garik Israelian, PhD, and Queen guitarist and PhD in astrophysics Sir Brian May, under the auspices of the late Stephen Hawking.
This is not the first time that prog musicians have been involved with the event. Rick Wakeman has performed at Starmus in the past, while in 2020 Anathema memorably performed Pink Floyd‘s Keep Talking with the late Stephen Hawking, which you can watch below.
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- Brian May - The Amazing Spider-man - UK - 12" picture disc - £40.00, $50.40, €46.80 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 10:40)on April 30, 2024 at 6:18 pm
BRIAN MAY / MC SPY-D The Amazing Spider-Man (1995 UK limited edition 3-track 12" Picture Disc single, including the Mastermix, Sad Bit Mix and White Trouser Mix!, clear PVC wallet & backing insert. The PVC sleeve and backing card has pin holes in the corner from being displayed though these do not detract from the overall look of the item 12RPD6404)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts In China - Stickered - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £20.00, $25.20, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 28-Mar-2024 13:50)on April 30, 2024 at 6:18 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE The Concerts In China (1982 UK 15-track double vinyl LP recorded live during five concerts presented in Peking & Shanghai, the first performances of rock or contemporary music ever given in the People's Republic of China, including forty minutes of then-new material. Housed in a hype-stickered gatefold picture with illustrated tracklisting inners. The sleeve shows some light edgewear and there is a reference number handwritten on the top corner of the inners, whilst the vinyl looks barely played PODV3)
- Brian May - Holy Man - RSD19 - Sealed - UK - 7" vinyl - £19.99, $25.19, €23.39 (New Item) (arrived 19-Feb-2024 14:19)on April 30, 2024 at 6:18 pm
WILSON / HAWKINS / MAY / TAYLOR Holy Man (2019 UK limited edition 7" vinyl single released exclusively for Record Store Day - Dennis Wilson wrote and recorded Holy Man in 1977 during the sessions for his legendary Pacific Ocean Blue, the sole album released by The Beach Boys' co-founder during his lifetime. In 2009, Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters added vocals to the long-unfinished track; 10 years later, 'Holy Man' receives new life with additional instrumental backing from guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Accompanied by the original instrumental version, the vinyl is UNPLAYED housed in the picture sleeve which remains sealed within its custom-stickered shrinkwrap)
- Brian May - Holy Man - RSD19 - Sealed - UK - 7" vinyl - £19.99, $25.19, €23.39 (New Item) (arrived 19-Feb-2024 16:48)on April 30, 2024 at 6:18 pm
WILSON / HAWKINS / MAY / TAYLOR Holy Man (2019 UK limited edition 7" vinyl single released exclusively for Record Store Day - Dennis Wilson wrote and recorded Holy Man in 1977 during the sessions for his legendary Pacific Ocean Blue, the sole album released by The Beach Boys' co-founder during his lifetime. In 2009, Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters added vocals to the long-unfinished track; 10 years later, 'Holy Man' receives new life with additional instrumental backing from guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Accompanied by the original instrumental version, the vinyl is UNPLAYED housed in the picture sleeve which remains sealed within its custom-stickered shrinkwrap)
- Brian May - Back To The Light - VG Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.80, €35.10 (New Item) (arrived 22-Feb-2024 10:28)on April 30, 2024 at 6:18 pm
BRIAN MAY Back To The Light (1992 UK 12-track vinyl LP including Resurrection [with Cozy Powell]. The smooth variant picture sleeve [VG] has some shelfwear evident with a 1" seam split to the top edge but comes complete with its lyric inner and the vinyl itself shows minimal signs of play PCSD123)
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