Dan Dare Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett wrote Dan Dare into his song "Astronomy Domine", from the band's debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", with the line "Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?" David Bowie's song "D.J." contains the somewhat obscure lyric: "I feel like Dan Dare lies down" Sir Elton John recorded "Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)" for his 1975 album "Rock Of The Westies". British punk rock group The Mekons included a song "Dan Dare" on their album "The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen". The album Below the Waste by the Art of Noise opened
The Front Page (1931 film) Menjou, a June 28, 1937 episode of "Lux Radio Theater" with Walter Winchell and James Gleason, and a May 9, 1948 episode of the "Ford Theatre" starring Ed Begley and Everett Sloane. The story was adapted for Howard Hawks's comedy "His Girl Friday" (1940), a 1974 remake of "The Front Page" starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and another version was made as "Switching Channels" (1988) with Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve. The Front Page (1931 film) The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.