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Gong (band)

Gong are a psychedelic rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style. The group was formed in Paris in 1967 by Australian musician Daevid Allen and English vocalist Gilli Smyth. Band members have included Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Steve Hillage, Mike Howlett, Tim Blake, Pierre Moerlen, Bill Laswell and Theo Travis. Others who have played on stage with Gong include Don Cherry, Chris Cutler, Bill Bruford, Brian Davison, Dave Stewart and Tatsuya Yoshida.

Gong's 1970 debut album, Magick Brother, featured a psychedelic pop sound. By the following year, the second album, Camembert Electrique, featured the more psychedelic rock/space rock sound with which they would be most associated. Between 1973 and 1974, Gong released their best-known work, the allegorical Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, describing the adventures of Zero the Hero, the Good Witch Yoni and the Pot Head Pixies from the Planet Gong.

In 1975, Allen and Smyth left the band, which continued without them, releasing a series of jazz rock albums under the leadership of drummer Pierre Moerlen. This incarnation soon became known as Pierre Moerlen's Gong. Meanwhile, Smyth formed Mother Gong while Allen initiated a series of spin-off groups, including Planet Gong, New York Gong and Gongmaison, before returning to lead Gong once again in 1990 until his death in 2015. With Allen's encouragement, the band decided to continue, releasing the album Rejoice! I'm Dead! in September 2016 and The Universe Also Collapses in 2019.

Protogong (1967–68)

In September 1967, Australian singer and guitarist Daevid Allen, a member of the English psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, was denied re-entry to the United Kingdom for 3 years following a French tour because his visa had expired. He settled in Paris, where he and his partner, London-born Sorbonne professor Gilli Smyth, established the first incarnation of Gong (later referred to by Allen as "Protogong" ) along with Ziska Baum on vocals and Loren Standlee on flute. However, the nascent band came to an abrupt end during the May 1968 student revolution, when Allen and Smyth were forced to flee the country after a warrant was issued for their arrest. They headed for Deià in Majorca, where they had lived for a time in 1966.

Gong 'proper' begins (1968–1971)
In August 1969, film director Jérôme Laperrousaz, a close friend of the pair, invited them back to France to record a soundtrack for a motorcycle racing movie which he was planning. This came to nothing at the time, but they were subsequently approached by Jean Karakos of the newly formed independent label BYG Actuel to record an album, and so set about forming a new electric Gong band in Paris, recruiting their first rhythm section of Christian Tritsch (bass) and Rachid Houari (drums and percussion) and re-connecting with a saxophonist called Didier Malherbe whom they had met in Deià. However, Tritsch was not ready in time for the sessions and so Allen played the bass guitar himself. The album, entitled Magick Brother, was completed in October.

The re-born Gong played its debut gig at the BYG Actuel Festival in the small Belgian town of Amougies, on 27 October 1969, joined by Danny Laloux on hunting horn and percussion, and Dieter Gewissler and Gerry Fields on violin, and was introduced to the stage by bemused compere Frank Zappa. Magick Brother was released in March 1970, followed in April by a non-album single, "Est-Ce Que Je Suis; Garçon Ou Fille?" b/w "Hip Hip Hypnotise Ya", which again featured Laloux and Gewissler. In October, the band moved into an abandoned 12-room hunting lodge called Pavillon du Hay, near Voisines and Sens, 120 km south-east of Paris. They would be based there until early 1974.

Houari left the band in the spring of 1971 and was replaced by English drummer Pip Pyle, whom Allen had been introduced to by Robert Wyatt during the recording of his debut solo album, Banana Moon. The new line-up recorded a soundtrack for Laperrousaz's movie, now entitled Continental Circus, backed poet Dashiell Hedayat on his album Obsolete, and played at the second Glastonbury Festival, later documented on the Glastonbury Fayre album. Next, they began work on their second studio album, Camembert Electrique, later referred to by Allen as "the first real band album". It established the progressive, space rock sound which would make their name, leading, in the autumn, to their first UK tour. However, by the end of the year Pyle had left the group, to be replaced by another English drummer, Laurie Allan.

The Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy (1972–74)

Gong went through increasing line-up disruption in 1972. Laurie Allan left in April to be replaced by Mac Poole, then Charles Hayward and then Rob Tait, before returning again late in the year. Gilli Smyth left for a time, returning to Deià, Majorca to look after her and Daevid Allen's baby son, and was replaced by Diane Stewart, who was the partner of Tait and the ex-wife of Graham Bond. Christian Tritsch moved to guitar and was replaced on bass by former Magma member Francis Moze, while the band's sound was expanded with the addition of synthesizer player Tim Blake in late 1972.

In October they were one of the first acts to sign to Richard Branson's fledgling Virgin Records label, and in late December traveled to Virgin's Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, England, to record their third album, Flying Teapot. Towards the end of their recording sessions they were joined by English guitarist Steve Hillage, whom they had met a few weeks earlier in France playing with Kevin Ayers. He arrived too late to contribute much to the album, but would soon become a key component in the Gong sound.

In March 1973, exhausted by Gong's 1972 tour and the recording of Flying Teapot, Allen and Smyth left Gong and returned to Deià to take care of their baby Tally. Then drummer Laurie Allan and bassist Francis Moze also decided to depart. Tim Blake, Steve Hillage, Didier Malherbe, Venux De Luxe and the rest of the Gong family decided to continue as the short-lived band Paragong who enlisted drummer Pierre Moerlen and bassist Mike Howlett but existed only two short months, March and April 1973, and only ever played live in France. The only recording documenting Paragong live is the (22-minute) short album Live '73 released in 1995 which consists of the two lenghty tracks "Camembert Psilocybin Flashback" and "Porquoi Dormons Nous? (The Gnome Rock Dispensation)".

Flying Teapot was released on 25 May 1973, the same day as Tubular Bells, and was the first instalment of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, which expounded upon the (previously only hinted at) Gong mythology developed by Allen. The second part, Angel's Egg, followed in December, now featuring the 'classic' rhythm section of Mike Howlett on bass and Pierre Moerlen on drums. In early 1974 Moerlen left to work with the French contemporary ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Smyth left to give birth to her and Allen's second son. They were replaced once again by Rob Tait and Diane Stewart, and the band moved from its French base at Pavillon du Hay to an English one at Middlefield Farm, near Witney, Oxfordshire. Moerlen, and later Smyth, returned in order to complete the trilogy with the album You, but by the time of its release, in October 1974, Moerlen was back with Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Smyth had settled permanently in Deià with her young sons. Prior to touring in support of You, Allen visited Smyth and the boys in Deià, while the rest of the band, including the departed Moerlen, recorded the basic tracks for Hillage's first solo album, Fish Rising. Moerlen was initially replaced in Gong by a succession of stand-ins (Chris Cutler, Laurie Allan and Bill Bruford) until former Nice and Refugee drummer Brian Davison took the job in early 1975. Smyth had already been replaced by Hillage's partner Miquette Giraudy.

In June 1974, Camembert Electrique was given a belated UK release by Virgin, priced at 59p, the price of a typical single at the time; a promotional gimmick which they had used before for Faust and would use again for a reggae compilation in 1976. These ultra-budget albums sold in large quantities because of the low price, but the pricing made them ineligible for placement on the album charts. The hope was that new fans would be encouraged to buy the groups' other albums at full price.

Daevid Allen's departure and Shamal (1975–76)
Increasing tension and personality clashes led to Tim Blake being asked to leave in February 1975 during rehearsals for a tour. He was not replaced. Then, at a gig in Cheltenham on 10 April, the day before the release of Steve Hillage's Fish Rising album, Daevid Allen refused to go on stage, claiming that a "wall of force" was preventing him from doing so, and he left the band. The others decided to carry on without him.

In August, Pierre Moerlen was persuaded to return, replacing the unhappy and alcoholic Davison, and the band now also added Mireille Bauer on percussion, Jorge Pinchevsky on violin and Patrice Lemoine on synthesizer and, for the first time in Gong, keyboards. They toured the UK in November 1975, as documented on the 2005 release Live in Sherwood Forest '75, and worked on material for their next album, Shamal. Hillage, however, was increasingly uncomfortable without Allen, and with now being seen as the band's de facto leader. With a solo career beckoning, he and Giraudy decided to leave before Shamal was completed, participating in it only as guests. Howlett took over as lead male vocalist and Sandy Colley, Lemoine's partner and the band's cook, became his female counterpart. The album was released in February 1976 and they toured in support until a crisis was precipitated in May when Pinchevsky was refused entry to the U.K. for carrying marijuana. Ex-King Crimson violinist David Cross was tried out as a possible replacement, but before any progress could be made with this new line-up, the band split into two camps: Howlett wanted to keep vocals, but Moerlen and Bauer wanted the music to be entirely instrumental, with Malherbe undecided. Virgin Records executive Simon Draper chose Moerlen's way and Howlett left, quickly followed by Lemoine and Colley.

Pierre Moerlen's Gong and other '70s offshoots (1976–1980)
For contractual reasons, the Gong name remained in play for another two years, but the band was now effectively Pierre Moerlen's Gong, having little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen. Moerlen formed a new mallet-percussion-based line-up, adding his brother Benoit Moerlen, future Weather Report percussionist Mino Cinelu, journeyman guitarist Allan Holdsworth and Flying Teapot bassist Francis Moze to record the album Gazeuse! in late 1976. Malherbe, Holdsworth, Moze and Cinelu all left soon afterwards, but Moerlen kept a band going with American bassist Hansford Rowe until the late 1980s. To avoid confusion, it first became known as Gong-Expresso and then, from 1978, as Pierre Moerlen's Gong. One last album, Pentanine, was recorded in 2002 with Russian musicians before Moerlen died unexpectedly in May 2005, aged 53.

A Gong reunion event held in Paris in May 1977 brought together all of the current strands which had developed and re-asserted the primacy of the Daevid Allen-led band. It featured sets by Tim Blake, Lady June, Howlett's Strontium 90, Steve Hillage, 'Shamal Gong', Gong-Expresso, Daevid Allen and Euterpe, and was headlined by Trilogy Gong, the classic lineup of Allen, Smyth, Malherbe, Blake, Hillage, Giraudy, Howlett and Moerlen. Their performance was documented on the live album Gong est Mort, Vive Gong. Strontium 90 was Mike Howlett's short-lived band which was notable for having two bass players, and for introducing Police members Sting and Stewart Copeland to their future guitarist Andy Summers.

Daevid Allen continued to develop the Gong mythology in his solo albums and with two new bands: Planet Gong (1977), which comprised Allen and Smyth playing with the British festival band Here & Now, and New York Gong (1979), comprising Allen and the American musicians who would later become known as Material. At the same time, Gilli Smyth formed Mother Gong with English guitarist/producer Harry Williamson and Didier Malherbe, and played in Spain and England. Allen delighted in this proliferation of groups and considered his role at this time to be that of an instigator, traveling around the world leaving active Gong-related bands in his wake.

Gongmaison and reunion (1989–1992)
After spending most of the Eighties in his native Australia, Allen returned to the UK in 1988 with a new project, The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, whose revolving cast included violinist Graham Clark and Gong saxophonist Didier Malherbe. This morphed into Gongmaison in 1989, which added Harry Williamson from Mother Gong and had a techno-influenced sound with electronic beats, as well as live percussion from Shyamal Maïtra. In 1990, the Gong name was revived for a one-off U.K. T.V. appearance with a line-up featuring Allen, Smyth and Malherbe, plus early-'70s drummer Pip Pyle and three members of Here & Now: Stephan Lewry (lead guitar), Keith Bailey (bass) and Paul Noble (synth). In April 1992, Gongmaison became Gong permanently with the combined line-up of Allen, Malherbe, Bailey and Pyle, plus Graham Clark and Shyamal Maïtra from Gongmaison. Together they recorded the album Shapeshifter (subsequently dubbed Radio Gnome Invisible, Part 4) and toured extensively.

25th-anniversary celebration (1994) and worldwide touring (1996–2001)
In 1994, Gong celebrated its 25th birthday with a show in London which featured the return of Gilli Smyth, bassist Mike Howlett and lead guitarist Stephan Lewry of Here & Now. This formed the basis of the band which toured worldwide from 1996 to 2001, with Pierre Moerlen replacing Pip Pyle on drums from 1997 through 1999. The album Zero to Infinity was released in 2000, by which time the line-up had changed again to Allen, Smyth, Malherbe and Howlett, plus new recruits Theo Travis on sax/keys and Chris Taylor on drums. This line-up was unique in the band's history in having two sax/flute players.

Acid Mothers Gong (2003–04)
2003 saw a radical new line-up including Acid Mothers Temple members Kawabata Makoto and Cotton Casino, plus University of Errors guitarist Josh Pollock. Allen and Smyth's son Orlando drummed on the 2004 studio album Acid Motherhood, but for the subsequent live dates the rhythm section was Ruins drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and Acid Mothers Temple bassist Tsuyama Atsushi. A live album recorded by this line-up in 2004 was released as Acid Mothers Gong Live Tokyo and they played a few more one-off shows in 2006 and 2007.

Gong Family Unconventions (2004–06)
The European version of Gong had retired from regular touring in 2001, but there were subsequent one-off reunions, most notably at the "Gong Family Unconventions" (Uncons), the first of which was held in 2004 in the Glastonbury Assembly Rooms as a one-day event and featured many ex-members and Gong family bands including Here & Now, House of Thandoy, Thom the Poet, Invisible Opera Company, Andy Bole, Bubbledub and Joie Hinton. The 2005 Uncon was a 2-day affair featuring several Gong-related bands such as Here & Now, System 7, House of Thandoy and Kangaroo Moon. The next Uncon was a 3-day event held at the Melkweg in Amsterdam on 3–5 November 2006, with practically all Gong-related bands present: 'Classic' Gong (Allen, Smyth, Malherbe, Blake, Howlett, Travis, Taylor, plus the return of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy), System 7, The Steve Hillage Band, Hadouk, Tim Blake and Jean-Philippe Rykiel, University of Errors, Here & Now, Mother Gong, Zorch, Eat Static, Sacred Geometry Band, Acid Mothers Gong and many others. These events have all been compèred by Thom the Poet (now "Thom Moon 10").

Gong Global Family (2007)
In November 2007, Daevid Allen held a series of concerts in Brazil with a new band which he called Gong Global Family. This consisted of Allen on vocals and guitar, Josh Pollock on guitar, Fabio Golfetti (of Violeta de Outono) on guitar, Gabriel Costa (also from Violeta de Outono) on bass, Marcelo Ringel on flute and tenor saxophone, and Fred Barley on drums. He also performed with his other band, University of Errors (Allen, Pollock, Barley and Michael Clare). These shows took place in São Paulo on 21 and 22 November and São Carlos on 24 November. The 21 November show was filmed and released in the UK on DVD and CD by Voiceprint Records. These musicians, minus Marcelo, also recorded some new songs at Mosh studio, São Paulo.

Continuing to record, tour and evolve (2008–2014)
In June 2008, Gong played two concerts in London, at Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank (opening Massive Attack's Meltdown festival) and at The Forum, with a line-up of Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Howlett, Taylor and Travis. This line-up then released a new album, 2032, in 2009 and toured in support, including the Glade stage at Glastonbury Festival. They played at The Big Chill festival in the UK on 9 August 2009 with Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Travis, Taylor and new bassist Dave Sturt, as well as the Beautiful Days festival in Devon and the Lounge On The Farm festival near Canterbury.

Gong played four UK live shows in September 2010 with Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Sturt, Taylor and new wind player Ian East. Support for these shows was provided by Nik Turner's Space Ritual.

Gong toured Europe in the fall of 2012 with the line-up of Allen, Smyth, Sturt and East, plus Orlando Allen (Acid Mothers Gong) on drums, and Fabio Golfetti (Gong Global Family) on guitar. It would be Gilli Smyth's final tour with the band. They played in Brazil in May 2013 and again in 2014, this time with the addition of Kavus Torabi on guitar.

The 2014 line-up released a new studio album entitled I See You on 10 November, with Gilli Smyth guesting. However, Daevid Allen had been diagnosed with a cancerous cyst in his neck and had to undergo radiation therapy followed by an extensive period of recuperation. The I See You tour went ahead without him, and the line-up of Sturt, East, Golfetti, Torabi and a "mystery drummer" (revealed to be Cheb Nettles) played five dates in France and two in the UK.

The deaths of Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth (2015–16)
On 5 February 2015, Daevid Allen released a statement announcing that the cancer had returned to his neck and had also spread to his lungs, and that he was "not interested in endless surgical operations", leaving him with "approximately six months to live". Just over a month after the initial announcement, on 13 March 2015, Daevid's son Orlando announced through Facebook that Allen had died in Byron Bay, Australia, aged 77.

On 11 April 2015, it was revealed that Allen had written an email to the band prior to his death, expressing his wish that the five remaining members continue performing following his passing and suggesting that Kavus Torabi become the new frontman of the band.

Gilli Smyth died on 22 August 2016, aged 83. She had been admitted to hospital in Byron Bay with pneumonia a couple of days previously.

Post-Daevid Allen: Rejoice! I'm Dead!, The Universe Also Collapses, Unending Ascending (2016–present)
On 5 July 2016, it was announced that the band line-up consisting of Kavus Torabi, Fabio Golfetti, Dave Sturt, Ian East and Cheb Nettles had recorded a new album entitled Rejoice! I'm Dead!, featuring guest appearances from Steve Hillage on guitar, Didier Malherbe on duduk and Graham Clark on violin, with Daevid Allen's vocals appearing on two tracks. ''Rejoice! I'm Dead!'' was released on 16 September 2016 through Snapper Music.

On 10 May 2019, the lineup followed up with the album The Universe Also Collapses.

In August 2019, Universal Music announced the boxed set, Love from The Planet Gong: The Virgin Years 1973–75, encompassing Gong's tenure with Virgin Records, would be released on 27 September. Curated by Hillage, it contains remasters of four studio albums and previously unreleased live recordings made between 1973 and 1975.

On 31 August 2023, Gong announced that they will be releasing their latest album, Unending Ascending, on 3 November 2023 through Kscope. They also premiered the video for their new single "Tiny Galaxies". A second single, "All Clocks Reset", was released on 5 October.

Style and influences
Gong's music fuses many influences into a distinctive style which has been variously described by critics and journalists as experimental rock, jazz fusion, jazz rock, progressive rock,     psychedelic rock  and space rock. Gong has also been associated with the Canterbury scene of progressive rock bands.

Rolling Stone described Gong's music as combining "psychedelic English whimsy, German kosmische space jams and Gallic libertine fusion."

Daevid Allen's guitar playing was influenced by Syd Barrett.

Mythology
The Gong mythology is a humorous collection of recurring characters and allegorical themes which permeate the albums of Gong and Daevid Allen, and to a lesser extent the early works of Steve Hillage. The characters were often based on, or used as pseudonyms for, band members, while the story itself was based on a vision which Allen had during the full moon of Easter 1966, in Deià, Majorca, in which he claimed he could see his future laid out before him. This mythology was hinted at through Gong's earlier albums but was not the central theme until the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy of 1973/74. It contains many similarities to concepts from Buddhist philosophy, e.g. optimism, the search for self, the denial of absolute reality and the search for the path to enlightenment. There are frequent references to the production and consumption of "tea", perhaps suggesting mushroom tea, although the word has also long been used to describe cannabis, especially in the 1940s and 1950s. The mentioning of flying teapots was inspired by [Bertrand] Russell's teapot.

Influence on other artists
Gong's influence has been seen in artists such as Ozric Tentacles and Insane Clown Posse, whose member Violent J listened to Gong's music for inspiration during the recording of ICP's 2009 album Bang! Pow! Boom!. Gong's music has also found fandom in the ambient music scene.

The Southern rock band Raging Slab has covered Gong's "The Pot Head Pixies" for NORML's Hempilation release. Japanese psych-rock band Acid Mothers Temple frequently covers Gong's "Master Builder", titled as "Om Riff", and have released 2 full albums dedicated to album-length renditions of the song; 2005's "IAO Chant From The Cosmic Inferno" and 2012's "IAO Chant From The Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out".

Actor Sherman Hemsley, best known for his role on The Jeffersons, was an avowed Gong fanatic, going so far as to have a Flying Teapot room in his house. The room, which had darkened windows, played Flying Teapot continuously via tape loops.

Personnel

 * Current members
 * Fabio Golfetti – lead guitar, vocals (2007, 2012–present)
 * Dave Sturt – bass, vocals (2009–present)
 * Ian East – saxophone, flute (2010–present)
 * Kavus Torabi – vocals, guitar (2014–present)
 * Cheb Nettles – drums, vocals (2014–present)

Daevid Allen's Gong

 * Magick Brother (1970)
 * Camembert Electrique (1971)
 * Continental Circus (1972, soundtrack)
 * Flying Teapot (1973)
 * Angel's Egg (1973)
 * You (1974)
 * Shapeshifter (1992)
 * Zero to Infinity (2000)
 * Acid Motherhood (2004) (with Acid Mothers Temple)
 * 2032 (2009)
 * I See You (2014)

post-Daevid Allen
 * Rejoice! I'm Dead! (2016)
 * The Universe Also Collapses (2019)
 * Unending Ascending (2023)

Paragong

 * 1995: Live '73 (live album recorded in Spring 1973 in France)

"Shamal Gong"

 * Shamal (1976) (issued as a "Gong" album, it is usually regarded as a transitional album between Daevid Allen's incarnation of the band and the Pierre Moerlen-led fusion line-up of the late 1970s.)

Pierre Moerlen's Gong

 * Gazeuse! (1976) (Expresso in North America) (issued as a "Gong" album)
 * Expresso II (1978) (issued as a "Gong" album)
 * Downwind (1979)
 * Time Is the Key (1979)
 * Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live (1980)
 * Leave It Open (1981)
 * Breakthrough (1986)
 * Second Wind (1988)
 * Full Circle Live '88 (1998)
 * Pentanine (2004)
 * Tribute (2010) (post-Pierre Moerlen)

Gongzilla

 * Suffer (1995)
 * Thrive (1996)
 * East Village Sessions (2003)
 * Five Even (2008)

Gong Expresso

 * Decadence (2018)

Planet Gong

 * Live Floating Anarchy 1977 (1978)

New York Gong

 * About Time (1980)

Gongmaison

 * Gongmaison (1989)

Mother Gong

 * Fairy Tales (1979)
 * Mother Gong / Anthony Phillips – Battle of the Birds (1981)
 * Robot Woman (1981)
 * Robot Woman 2 (1982)
 * Robot Woman 3 (1986)
 * Fish in the Sky (1988)
 * The Owl and the Tree (with Daevid Allen) (1989)
 * Wild Child (1991)
 * She Made the World Magenta (1993)
 * Eye (1994)
 * Tree in Fish (1994)

Gilli Smyth, Daevid Allen and Orlando Allen

 * I Am Your Egg (2005)

Live albums

 * Haunted Chateau (1969)
 * Glastonbury Fayre (Gong contributed one side to this triple LP) (1971)
 * Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall (contributed one side) (1973)
 * Gong est Mort, Vive Gong (French live album) (1977)
 * Gong Live Etc (UK live album) (1977)
 * Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live (Pierre Moerlen's Gong) (1980)
 * Live at Sheffield '74 (1990)
 * Live au Bataclan 1973 (1990)
 * Live Floating Anarchy 1991 (Planet Gong) (1992)
 * Live 1991 (Mother Gong) (1992)
 * Live on T.V. 1990 (1993)
 * 25th Birthday Party (1995)
 * Pre-Modernist Wireless: The Peel Sessions (1995)
 * Full Circle Live '88 (Pierre Moerlen's Gong) (1998)
 * Live 2 Infinitea (2000)
 * OK Friends (2002)
 * Glastonbury 1971 (2002)
 * Live in Sherwood Forest '75 (Shamal-Gong) (2005)
 * Glastonbury '79–'81 (Mother Gong) (2005)
 * Gong in the 70s (2006)
 * Acid Mothers Gong Live Tokyo (Acid Mothers Gong) (2006)
 * Mothergong O Amsterdam (Mother Gong) (2007)
 * Live in Brazil (2009)
 * Pulsing Signals (2022)

Compilation albums

 * Wingful of Eyes (A Retrospective, '75–'78) (Virgin Records, 1986)
 * The Mystery and the History of the Planet Gong (1989)
 * The Best of Gong (Charly Records, 1995)
 * The Very Best of Gong (Charly, 1997)
 * Best of Mother Gong (1998)
 * The World of Daevid Allen and Gong (3 CD compilation including almost all of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy and early album tracks) (2003)
 * The Very Best of Gong (Charly, 2005)
 * Gong in the 70's (Voiceprint, 2006)
 * A Storm in a Teapot (Charly, 2013)
 * Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy (4 CD or 5 LP box set) (Charly, 2015)
 * Love from the Planet Gong: The Virgin Years (1973–75) (Virgin, 2019)

Other appearances

 * Obsolete (album by French singer Dashiell Hedayat) (1971)
 * The Book of AM (produced by Daevid Allen, with Mother Gong musicians) (1978)

Filmography

 * 2015: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales (DVD)

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Canadian Music Hall of Fame

The Canadian Music Hall of Fame was established in 1978 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) to honour Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements in music. The award presentation is held each year as part of the Juno Award ceremonies. Since 2012, the inductee also performs at the ceremony, almost always as the final performer.

A hall facility was opened in Calgary in 2016 located within The National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta. It can be found on level five of the Studio Bell, a floor entirely dedicated to celebrating and recognizing Canadian music creators and artists who have left their mark on this country and beyond.

Inductees
As of 2024 CARAS has honored 65 bands or individual musicians. To date, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are the only artists to be inducted twice, once for their work with The Guess Who and again for Bachman's work with Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Cummings for his solo work.

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Talk:THX 1138

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 * Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.

Agreed ? How come no mention of the SEN5241 Alternate Reality Game for the release of the DVD edition?.
Why is there no mention of the Alternate Reality Game which told the story of THX's roommate after THX left the underground city? How do we get that information mentioned. It was a huge ARG and was part of the DVD release anniversary?

I know one of the developers who worked on the "SEN5241" alternative Reality Game.... Should I email him to get information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JTiberius (talk • contribs) 23:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

How come no mention of the SEN5241 Alternate Reality Game for the release of the DVD edition?.
Why is there no mention of the Alternate Reality Game which told the story of THX's roommate after THX left the underground city? This was a worldwide game with the conclusion of the game being the date of the DVD release? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.170.244.174 (talk) 19:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

More Information on the Production and Special Effects needed.
I think this article definitely needs more specific information on the special effects in the scenes:

 * 1) How were the futuristic city add ins made?
 * 2) How were the holograms added to film?
 * 3) Did they use rotoscoping, rendering or models? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.0.214.243 (talk) 16:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Marilyn Manson's The Dope Show music video
If i recall some imagery from Marilyn Mansons The Dope Show was inspired by THX 1138. I may be wrong but just throwing that out there if anyone wants to add to the imagery section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iscream22 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Ripoff of Logan's Run
I've often thought of this comparison and now I think it's time to add thins to Wikipedia. Logan's Run the novel was published in 1967, the same year that THX was originally made. The novel was later turned into a film in 1976. Seeing both movies, they are almost identical. I wonder if anyone else shares this same opinion with me. Given Lucas's penchant for blatantly stealing ideas for his work, I think this is a very plausible theory. Before I make the addition to the main page, I want to post here, hear some more ideas, and avoid an edit war.
 * Where did you read this? Recury 03:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

 * In my opinion, the primary influences are Brave New World and 1984, though it does verge on social satire. Afalbrig (talk) 03:55, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 * In my opinion, it is an ecranisation of Yevgenyi Zamyatin's novel 'We' and I wonder why this writer didn't got credited. Nicolasseveryns —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.197.35.219 (talk) 11:57, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Almost identical? How?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.158.130 (talk) 12:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Just watched THX 1138 for the first time and through the whole second half of the film I was thinking this is just like Logan's Run, and wondering which came first and whether one ripped off the other. Dystopian, high-tech future in a contained urban environment, where religion is used in a very naked means of social control, with a protagonist running from the security agents of the system to find, ultimately his way into freedom outside the system. The plot and themes of these two works overlap enormously, though stylistically they are quite different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.149.22.198 (talk) 18:51, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Lots of science fiction is based around dystopian/futuristic/oppressive plotlines. without impartial research to refer to or specific comments from lucas to support such a theory it is not worth mentioning. after reviewing both logans run and thx1138 my personal opinion is they are NOT the same anyway - in neither plot OR construction. Its like calling star wars and star trek the same because their both set in space.

This film strongly reminds me of Brave New World, the whole setup of the society and aspects of the plot are the same. I don't care that it wasn't credited, but maybe this (and the other books mentioned above) should be mentioned in the article as possible inspiration/sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.81.214.52 (talk) 12:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * If any of the above speculation is added to the article, without any cite to back it up, it will have to be removed again, as per WP:OR. WikiuserNI (talk) 12:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Yea, and ya may as well throw in Woody Allen's "Sleeper" too.. filmed around same time... same kinda story. sorrta. 2602:304:CDAF:A3D0:E523:32AB:98AC:4A49 (talk) 02:22, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Question about SEN and Nixon
Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by Richard Nixon

Does anyone know which lines and from which speeches? I wasn't able to find any source or proof that supports this statement in the article. Siyavash 16:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Then you should take it out or else post a "citation needed". I haven't seen the movie in decades, so I couldn't say one way or the other. Wahkeenah 19:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The line about SEN's dialogue being taken from speeches by Richard Nixon was probably taken from the DVD. I own the DVD, and remember hearing George Lucas talk about it in the director's commentary during the scene where THX and SEN are in the white-room/prison.--Geedubber 21:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's true, it mostly in the white "jail". If you turn on the commentary at that scene, you will here them shortly mentioning it. --Steinninn 03:00, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Joyce Numerology
1+1=(2) A=B A+B= $1+$1=($2)

In front of person there is a garden. In front of the entrance to the garden there are three stones. One on the ground, one on top of the one on the ground, and one on the top of the one on the one that is on top of the one on the ground with a peice of rope tied around it. Nature made the person then nature balanced the stone but who tied the rope around the top stone and why is what the sun asked at the end of the movie.

Some people are blinded by the light of nature, others embrace, yet others throw stones.

I can jump so high others can not, I could crawl so fast and others never breathed air and became born. What this movie tells us is what we can do, why we can do some things is what we need to ask ourselves when we can not see the garden because of the blinding light of logic which colors our existence.
 * If I needed someone to explain this movie to me, I'd pick someone who can count better. Your description of the "third" stone implies a fourth one in there somewhere.  As for the sunset, Lucas himself has said repeatedly "it's just a sunset".Skyraider 4 July 2005 05:05 (UTC)

''Lucas' use of the number 1138 can be seen as a tinkered allusion to the numerology employed by James Joyce, who used the number 1132 throughout Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. According to Joseph Campbell, the number 1132, which repeats throughout Joyce's works in adresses and times of day among other things, can be best seen as a number symbolizing the fall of man ("32 feet per second per second," Leopold Bloom's manta of the rate of falling objects) and rebirth/redemption ("11" being the first new number in a cycle.)''
 * Has Lucas himself ever mentioned Joyce's 1132 as influencing his choice of 1138? If there isn't a specific source to confirm that, the above paragraph is original research and should be removed.  Lucas *was* a student of Joseph Campbell, so it's possible, but I'd like to see something specific to confirm that it's not just a coincidence. Skyraider 4 July 2005 05:05 (UTC)

''Lucas' employing Joyce's numerology provides some interesting insights into the nature of his films, especially his epic Star Wars narrative. Multiplied together, Joyce's numbers produce the number 6, the number of episodes in Lucas' film cycle. One can then see the number 1138 as 1132+6=1138. Furthermore, Lucas' protagonist Anakin Skywalker undergoes the same transformative experiences implied by 1132--a fall from grace and redemption. Another multiplication process of the numbers, 3x2x11=66, produces the number of the the Emperor's holocaust command against the Jedi, Order 66.''
 * I'm removing the above for the following reasons:
 * 1) This is an article about THX-1138, not the Star Wars films.
 * 2) When Lucas created the original short THX1138:4EB in 1967, he hadn't even sketched out the Star Wars storyline, much less decided on 6 films.
 * 3) When Lucas *did* start creating the Star Wars saga, he planned 9 films, not 6, knocking your numerology into a cocked hat. It's only more recently that he decided to forgo Episodes 7-9.
 * 4) Do you know how common "Fall from Grace -> Redemption" is as a plotline?
 * Skyraider 4 July 2005 05:05 (UTC)

It's been several months, and nobody has offered a citation to justify the inclusion of Joyceian numerology in this article. I'm removing it. --Skyraider 21:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I think I ran over a Wookie
During the car chase scene a voiceover clearly says words to the effect of "I think I ran over a Wookie". I seem to recall this was mentioned in an earlier version of the article but it is not present now. Is there a good reason the line is missing? Apparently when Lucas heard this line he liked the name and used it in Star Wars. Robert Brockway 08:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe they didn't want the article to sound like a transcription of the DVD commentary? Though that wouldn't explain why they left the other 10 paragraphs of "trivia." Recury 14:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That bit of trivia was also removed from the imdb page so maybe it didn't actually happen?--Geedubber 19:50, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, it happened, they point out where he says it in one of the featurettes or whatever they're called on the DVD. It still shouldn't be in the article though. Recury 01:05, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know why not. I'm actually in favor of a "Star Wars connections" section since there are a number of other terms from THX-1138 (including the name of the film) that appears in the first Star Wars films. 23skidoo 05:16, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Recury, why on Earth do you say it should not be included? Many articles include trivia.  It is very clear in the audio and quite an odd statement that deserves some comment, especially when the nonsense word lives on Robert Brockway 06:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Just because there are a lot of Star Wars connections doesn't mean they should all be put in this article. Just because a lot of articles include trivia doesn't mean that they should. This article's trivia section is already absurdly long (a problem I will be fixing shortly). If it deserves comment, it deserves it at Wookiee. Recury 15:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The trivia section contains a lot of references from other films, many of which are then duplicated in the section with references from other films!

Trivia add : Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails sample the film for the album " The Downward Spiral". It is also important to note Renzor wrote the song "we're in this together" from the fragile which references a quote from the film.

Reply: sorry i've never done this before, so if ive formatted my reply wrong just delete it or something. anyway, im confused by this idea that they sampled the police beating into the song mr. self destruct. i heard that it was made to synch up to the first scene in E Elias Merhige's film Begotten, in which God is disembowling himself with a razor. can anyone clarify one or the other? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.75.139 (talk) 15:59, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

1138 Trivia
I don't know how to put in references on the original article (and at the moment I don't have time to figure it out), but the Trivia section of this article says it doesn't have references. Most of the facts listed there are from the Internet Movie Database, if anyone wants to put the reference in the right format. If not, I'll come back and try to do it myself...

The URL for the page is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/trivia

Laurie Tubawiki 06:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Under the 1138 (number) page there is a lot of trivia about 1138 already. Why is it duplicated here ? Or should that section over there be brought here ? WendelScardua 15:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

 * A vast majority of the trivia section is a word-for-word lift from the imdb trivia page. Copyright violations can't be left in, so I am stripping everything from "George Lucas claims..." to "Lucas's original plan..."  We can work any of it back nto the main text, if need be. Tarc 03:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

X3 character based on THX-1138?

 * Should it be noted that the character of Leech (the cure of the mutant gene) in X3: The Last Stand looks very much like THX-1138? He is dressed in white, has a shaved head, and is kept in a sterile-looking white room?

So every person who has ever been to a hospital to get radiation treatment is based on THX-1138 by that reasoning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.147.182.238 (talk) 00:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Film Cost?
Can someone please find out how much this film actually cost? I doubt that it was exactly 77,777,777.77 I would guess this is vandalism, but I'm unsure.

Jeroorda 01:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Seriously, that's the silliest thing I've seen in a few days. $777,777.77 is no estimate.

I have to agree. Anyone got any real figures? AKismet 03:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

In the Making Of thing on the DVD, Lucas says that that is what Coppola set the budget at. Recury 13:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

The year the film was made
List_of_science_fiction_films says it was shot in 1970. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.20.244.254 (talk) 19:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

References Section
The "References in other media" section repeats a ton of stuff that's also found in 1138 (number). Should that section be changed to a quick, paragraph-form summary of references with a link to more references at the 1138 page? If so, be sure to move all references that are here but not at the 1138 page to the 1138 page. Tophtucker 04:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Similarity to Breath of Fire?
One of the trivia points is that the plot of one of the Breath of Fire games is remarkably similar to that of this movie. If "Underground Dystopia, escape sequence to Earth's surface that is now inhabitable" is all that's the same, that is much too weak a connection to be anything other than coincidence, lacking evidence to the contrary. On the other hand, maybe there are more extensive similarities or a connection between the two. Would someone more familiar with the Breath of Fire series than I am put this one to rest one way or the other? 24.118.231.95 03:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I haven't seen Breath of Fire, but that bare-bones one-sentence desciption would also fit the Polish 1970s sci-fi blue comedy film Sexmania. --79.242.203.134 (talk) 04:34, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Vague grammar
Under the director's cut section this sentence appears: "Fan and critical reaction to this version was mixed, although any negative commentary was far more low key than the backlash Lucas faced with altering the Star Wars films. This likely due to the relative popularity of the films."

This is confusing, is it trying to be said that: A)star wars is far more popular then THX 1138,or the oppisite. B)both are popular and therefore fans do not want them altered. The sentence is also speculation & "this likely due" is poor grammar. I will remove it and if someone wants to put it back plz clarify. --Wilson 12:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Corrected OMM 0910's identity
OMM's icon was incorrectly given as Albrecht Dürer's self portrait. The differences between the two are seen here:. It clearly resembles Hans Memling's painting 'Christ Giving His Blessing' seen here:. --CrinklyCrunk 18:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That's great, but we need a citation for this: "looks like" is not definitive enough. Can you find an interview with Lucas (or other person connected to the film) where this is stated? (Also, moved comment to the bottom, as is common practice on WP). Doctormatt 18:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it's not a question of source, it very deffenetly is the painting by Hans Memling. Although in the commentary (at 17:50) Walter Murch mistakenly thinks it's a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, „...yet the actual image that you see in the confessional is a renesounce painting of Christ... I think by Lucas Cranach“. No question, he was right about it beeing a painting of Christ, but it's not by Cranach. --Steinninn 17:03, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * We need not discuss this no more, here are enough images to identify it Electronic Labyrinth, Feature length, Christ Giving His Blessing and IMDb source. --Steinninn 05:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * There are two paintings by Hans Memling called Christ Giving His Blessing: (1478) (1481). Image:Christ Giving His Blessing.jpg is the 1478 version; IMDb has the wrong date. --Jtir (talk) 21:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Similarities to Equilibrium?
Certainly, the idea of people have their emotions controlled by the Govt. mandated, complusory use of drugs, and having at least one main character stop taking the drug, is the same as in Equilibrium. --81.105.176.121 13:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That is the first thing I thought of when I saw the plot overview. I'm not sure it is encyclopedic enough though. nailPuppy (talk) 03:25, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

 * One significant difference is that in Equilibrium the protagonist is in a position of authority and uses it to aid an uprising, where in THX 1138, he only seeks escape. Also in THX 1138, his roommate is the one to takes his off the drug, where in Equilibrium he makes a conscious, cognitive decision to stop his dosage. These differences significantly alter the themes of the film, in my opinion. 207.112.44.17 (talk) 04:15, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

OMM 0910 or OMM 0000
I thought it was zero zero zero zero, am I wrong. Where dose the 0910 come from? --Steinninn 05:46, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The official site says 0910, though it's hard to give a link- it's deep in a fairly confusing flash site. Staecker 21:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * But in the original short film, it's 0000. I think we should use that as source rather then a homepage that might not be 100% accurate. --Steinninn 16:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not just "a homepage"- it's the official website for the film. The short is a different film, in which THX's name is THX 1138 4EB. So a different name there shouldn't be a surprise. Staecker (talk) 17:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm just saying that the filmmakers are often not involved in creating the official homepage and so the creators of the homepage might have filled in some gaps, like creating the four digit number for OMM all by them selves without asking the writers of the film. I'm still not sure witch one to use :/ --Steinninn 01:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Shot locations?
When THX and SRT are avoiding the police, the end up in a large electronic center of some sort. Anyone know where it was? It looks too big to be a telephone switch, and I doubt they would have let them film at a SAGE. Maury (talk) 00:02, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB Merge
I recommend merging Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB into a new section in this article. As it is Electronic Labyrinth would likely be deleted otherwise for lack of references, notability, etc. 74.13.109.25 (talk) 16:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * As the two films are separated by years, plot, and cast, and exist as wholly separate and unique entities, both of which are notable in their own right, I disagree that any merge is necessary. I've removed the tags. MikeWazowski (talk) 17:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Rating
You forgot the rating! --66.205.143.105 (talk) 22:59, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Buck Rogers
I distinctly remember a screening of this on TV in Britain in the 1990s which included a short excerpt from the old Buster Crabbe Buck Rogers serial before the opening credits. This is mentioned at the Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Film Review and indeed on the IMDB itself, but it's nowhere in Wikipedia's article; did I dream it? Was the clip part of the five minutes apparently excised from the film at the studio's request? Is the clip present in the recent DVD release? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't remember it from the new DVD release, but I'll try and check my Sci-Fi channel (UK) tape if I can find it. Alastairward (talk) 21:49, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's on the DVD. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 21:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I have a recording of the SciFi channel UK's broadcast from what I beleive was (from the channel's then ident) the late 90s. After the SciFi channel intro, there's about a minute of Buck Rodgers, then the Warner Bros. logo and then the opening credits of the film itself. WikiuserNI (talk) 11:55, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Ununtrioctium
Why does redirect to this article? It's not mentioned in the article text. I realise that if un=1, tri=3, oct=8 you get 1138 (-ium being a common suffix for a metallic chemical element), but why is the word "Ununtrioctium" significant? -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It brings up only two pages worth of Google search results, with barely anything relating to the film itself. Could such an article be deleted even if already redirected? WikiuserNI (talk) 22:34, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I was led here by the strange completion "ununtrioctium" when searching for element 113, "ununtrium" (in the news today, as it happens); since there's nothing about this impossible element 1138 in the article and since all other web references seem to stem from this article, it really should be deleted. 66.32.207.61 (talk) 22:28, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

It's the name of a placeholder for a very very future element. Fixed, though the redirect was kind of cute. Dreadfullyboring (talk) 16:58, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

 * This is purely speculative OR, but maybe ununtrioctium is the glowing radioactive element THX is handling at his job that somehow powers the cyborg cops? --79.242.203.134 (talk) 04:30, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Culture jamming?
Culture jamming? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.87.29.188 (talk) 22:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Section on Legacy
Just a cloaked name for Trivia......I like it.Bddmagic (talk) 13:20, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

 * No cloaking devices allowed on Wikipedia! Renamed the section. Erik (talk | contribs) 13:25, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Use of Trademarked Coca Cola logo in original movie
I bought the DVD release specifically to see the 'spinning coca cola ' capsule of medication that the principal character draws from the talking medicine cabinet. The sequence is missing, and many other aspects of the DVD release apper to be digitally enhanced.

Does anyone else recall the spinning, airborne capsule with the Coca Cola logo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.191.212 (talk) 07:11, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I kept my very grainy, early 2000s recording from the Sci-fi channel just so I could enjoy the re-release and the original, guess which holds up best?
 * But on topic, perhaps google and check out one of those sites that compares re-releases. Only of course, if you intend to improve the article by adding pertinent information on the re-release (WP:FORUM and all that). WikiuserNI (talk) 09:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

 * I have the original VHS release which I've watched at least two dozen times. I do not recall any Coca-Cola logo as you describe. None of the drugs depicted in the film were "moving" or "spinning". Obviously I may not be remembering accurately, but the portions of the original that survived into the director's cut in this area remain unchanged from the VHS release. Definitely worth chasing down if you desire.THX1136 (talk) 16:20, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

WAIT... wait..... wait........ why does the article say it wasn`t finacuialu succesfull when it made it`s budget back over 3 times?/????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.45.130.67 (talk) 03:35, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * That's the production budget, which covers filming & editing costs. There's also the prints & advertising budget to consider, which — at this scale — would cut heavily into any box office takings.  For comparison, THX's box office takings would barely cover the production costs for A Clockwork Orange, which was made in the same year and had a similar target audience.  Mrstonky (talk) 01:59, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Wait if the film made it`s budget back times 3 then why was it unsuccesfull, and could the concept of it having become a cult classic be clearified, plus didn`t Lucas fully write the story and ony cpowrite the screenplay, and that cowriter only cowrite the screenplay not the whole film????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.45.130.67 (talk) 01:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens reference
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The newest film is Disney, not Lucasfilm. How/where should I add a reference to 1138? Dreadfullyboring (talk) 17:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC) Dreadfullyboring (talk) 17:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It is indeed Lucasfilm, which still exists, now owned by Disney. Staecker (talk) 12:11, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Movie reference to THX 1138
In the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow, around the 24 minute mark, when Sky Captain and Polly go to Dr. Jennings lab, the number on the door is 1138.

IMDB has a item in the trivia for the movie that reads: Dr. Jennings' lab is suite number 1138 - an homage to George Lucas.

I will leave it to someone to decide if a main page edit is justified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.94.21.53 (talk) 20:16, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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Move all "In popular culture" items to a new page?
There are a lot of songs that have sampled THX 1138, for some reason the NIN sample is always mentioned even though it's one of the least obvious ones. Apart from audio samples, there are lots of other references in film, tv and music. A few are listed on the Lucasfilm Wiki (https://lucasfilm.fandom.com/wiki/THX_1138#In_popular_culture) and on WhoSampled (https://www.whosampled.com/movie/THX-1138/). Maybe we should leave it to those sites to collect this kind of information? Or should we create a new Wikipedia page ("THX 1138 in popular culture"?), and move it off the main page? That way we needn't restrict it to a few select items, and thus avoid the discussion on which item should be included.

— Kawayama (talk) 15:00, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

 * Even if the "In popular culture" section isn't split off, I'm surprised there's no mention of the music video for "The Body Electric" by Rush. -User:DanTD (talk) 03:56, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

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The series was produced by NorthSouth Productions for the MOJO HD network. Two seasons aired on MOJO HD before the network went down on December 1, 2008; a third season was filmed but has gone unaired.

Episodes
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The first season consisted of eight regular episodes and two bonus episodes. The second season premiered on April 10, 2008 at 9:30 PM and concluded its 14 episodes on July 10.

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title: I Bet You