2001: A Space Odyssey United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A musical score was commissioned for the film and composed by Alex North, but Kubrick ultimately decided not to use it, in favour of the classical pieces he used as guides during shooting. These included Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz", and music by twentieth-century composers Aram Khachaturian and Gyorgy Ligeti. Toward the end of the sequence where the HAL 9000 computer is lobotomized, it begins to play the 1892 song "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" by Harry Dacre, which Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey but Saturn. 2001: A Space Odyssey was the name of an oversized comic book adaptation of the 1968 film of the same name and a 10-issue monthly series "expanding" on the ideas presented in the film and the eponymous Arthur C. Clarke novel. Jack Kirby wrote and pencilled both the adaptation and the series, which were published by Marvel Comics beginning in 1976. The "Space Odyssey" series is a science fiction series of four novels, primarily written by the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and two films, released from 1968 to 1997. Stanley Kubrick directed the first film," " (1968).