Silver stele and his forays into rock music.
Given their level of iconicity, comic book superheroes tend to be widely used as slogans for selling all sorts of products and, of course, music couldn’t be any less, as we’ve already demonstrated when we talked about the relationship between Spiderman and the world of music. However, in this article we will talk about another character of Wonder he too was tied to this world, even if he never had much luck.
As you can see if you continue reading the rest of the article, it is Silver stelethe cosmic character created by Jack Kirby for the adventure The arrival of Galactus!which saw the light in the comic Fantastic Four #48 (1966), with a screenplay by Stan Leebesides being interpreted by Doug Jones in the movie Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).
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The musical group Pink Floyd (active from 1965 to 1995), who had already shown the Doctor Strange on your album cover A record full of secrets (1968), he also did not want to miss the opportunity to show off Silver stele In a later work, called The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), although, ultimately, singer and composer The best of David Gilmour He eventually discarded it, in favor of another design done by three company employees. Hypgnosiswhose names were George Hardie, Storm Thogerson And Author: Aubrey Powell.
Despite this, in an interview, the last of the graphic designers mentioned in the previous paragraph explained in these terms what were the reasons why they were preparing to choose the cosmic character of The House of Ideas as the central motif of the aforementioned album Pink Floyd:
We were all very passionate about comics. Wonder. We liked the image of a silver man, on a silver surfboard, gliding through the universe… it had a mystical, mythological feel.
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In the seventies, despite the fact that other audiovisual projects of Wonder at that time it hadn’t worked very well, a film about Silver stelea project that was announced as so serious that, in 1978, Stan Lee And Jack Kirby They worked together again, for the last time, to create a graphic novel that would serve as a guide to the development of the feature film, whose protagonist would be the bodybuilder. Frank ZaneWhile Olivia Newton-John would give life to Ardinthe herald who would take Galactose substitute Silver stele.
Lea Kramer, Lee’s sonwho would be the director of the film of this cosmic superhero, chose Paul McCartney as responsible for the soundtrack, so the result could have been interesting, because we don’t think a musician of that caliber would have been interested in collaborating on a project of dubious quality, although we will never know since the money was not obtained enough to finance the feature film.
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Eventually, the character got his deserved opportunity when he appeared on the cover of Surfing with the alien (1987), from Joe Satriani. Even though the guitarist hadn’t read any comics Silver stele, Jim Kozlowskitheir producer, of whom he was a big fan Norrin Radd and had adopted the pseudonym of Silver Surfer During his time on the radio, he recommended the artist to use the image of the cosmic character as a teaser, as it would correspond to the title of the album.
While agreements have been reached with Wonder, Kozlowski lent to Satriani some comics he appeared in Silver stele and the truth is that the guitarist loved both the characterization of the character and his metaphysical dilemma. That’s how the character design was realized John Byrne and inked by Tom Palmerappeared on the album cover, but only until 2018.
What happened on that date? Well, the contract that had been signed in the eighties came to an end and no favorable agreement was reached for its renewal, so Silver stele He disappeared from the album cover to be replaced by a naive alien sailing in the sea. It was clear that this cosmic character of Wonder He was destined not to have the definitive triumph in the world of rock.
However, it is worth remembering that the guitarist was fascinated by it Silver stelethanks to the comics that his producer had lent him, so, on the album Flying in a blue dream (1989), the song appeared Return to Shalla-Bal, in which the meeting between Norrin Radd and his beloved, while he was inside Engines of Creation (2000) we can find the themes The Power Cosmic 2000-Part I And The Power Cosmic 2000-Part IIboth related to Silver stele.