I wonder what people will make of his music in the future … ?
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Maybe some alien race will discover dancing or air guitar. But Bach’s Goldberg Variations on that disc will convince them that we are genius species, not to be be attacked. 
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Legend has it that the original plan was to go with an all-Bach disc, but it was thought to be too much like bragging.
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Alien turntables…now there’s a thought.
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I wonder if he made them pay for the music rights….he was very meticulous on being payed?
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The Goldbergs didn’t actually make the cut, but three other JSB pieces did:
I hope the civilisation that finds it doesn’t have audiophiles - they’ll refuse to listen to a disc recorded at 16.7 rpm and will doubtless turn up their noses at the stylus NASA supplied with the record.
Mark
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According to the book which comes with Ozma’s beautiful Voyager Golden Record 3-LP box set, Sagan asked if he could put the Beatles on the record, but abdurdly, Apple/EMI wanted too much money…
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Apparently, they got a message back from deepest space “Send more Chuck Berry”.
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At least Brian Cox was not selected … ok before his time but …
I don’t get that. You get paid for sales or airplay/streaming. Did EMI really think they were entitled to revenue if it were played by alien species somewhere across the universe?
And how would they know? 
Or worse - they’d play it at 33 1/3 and conclude that chipmunks were the dominant species on earth.
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