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
Eagle (British comics) in the Churchtown district of Southport. The building was described by "Eagle" artist Greta Tomlinson as "very basic, a flagstone floor and a tin roof; there was cold running water in the corner. It was freezing cold in the winter and boiling hot in the summer". Working to a tight schedule, Hampson created each Dan Dare episode first in pencil, and then in ink and colour. He and his team of artists posed for photographs, in the positions drawn in his pencil sketches (Hampson usually posed for Dan Dare). These photographs were combined with the rough sketches, and his colleagues