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
Dorothy Dare "Gold Diggers of 1935", "Front Page Woman" (1935), "High Hat" (1937), and "Clothes and the Woman" (1937). She sang such songs as "Red Headed and Blue" and "Yoo Hoo Hoo". By the late 1930s and early 1940s, Dare began to lose parts. In 1942, she made her final film appearance as Peggy in "The Yanks Are Coming" and in 1944 she sang her last musical number in "Musical Movieland". Dare left movies and moved to Orange County, California. She seldom granted interviews or wrote about her Hollywood years. She died at her home on October 4, 1981, and was buried