[PW] Re: "A garland of Martian fire flowers"

[Shari Haber]

Thanks, Ronald! I'll pass that information along.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Lippock" <rlippock at cqpress.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: [PW] Re: "A garland of Martian fire flowers"


> Shari- the liner notes reference I believe comes from the early 60's 
> SF magazine Mars Attacks (from which the movie stems)
>
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> Shari Haber
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>
> Thanks to all who helped with the Martian fire flowers quote. I
> contacted John Arnold, of the Emerson, Lake, and Powell Digest, and he
> told me about the acknowledgement on the liner notes to "Brain Salad
> Surgery." (He is not sure of its exact origin, but it may very well be
> from the SF genre.)
>
> Shari Haber
> MCLS Reference Center
> shaber at mcls.org
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: murat <feedback at muratnkonar.com>
>> Date: Aug 15, 2006 11:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: "A garland of Martian fire flowers"
>> To: "Michael J. Lowrey" <orangemike at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
>>> The earliest anybody has tracked it down to is
>>> a 1988 Usenet posting by one Murat N. Komar (no, I don't know if 
>>> this
>>> is the same Murat Komar who was in the band Information Society);
>>
>> Yes it is. And it's spelled 'Konar'.
>>
>> I got it from the credits on the album "Brain Salad Surgery" by
>> Emerson, Lake and Palmer. IIRC, it went something like "many thanks
>> and a garland of martian flowers to Peter Sinfield" who evidently
>> helped out on the lyrics to several of the album's tracks. Where EL&P
>> may have got it, I don't know.
>>
>> _murat
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
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