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
Frank Bellamy to "Dan Dare". Bellamy took over "Dan Dare" part way through the "Terra Nova" storyline, replacing creator Frank Hampson. It was an awkward set-up: the new owners of "Eagle" thought the strip looked dated, so gave Bellamy the brief of redesigning everything, from the costumes and spacecraft to the page layouts. Bellamy was left to draw the title page unaided (in contrast to Hampson's many-hands approach, where the drawing, inking, lettering and colouring were all separately completed by a team of artists), while two of Hampson's former assistants, Keith Watson and Don Harley, had to do the second page. Bellamy's