Of course there
are many, many songs that reference the Moon but most of them are not actually
about the Moon at all. The one that springs to mind right away is the classic
`Fly Me To The Moon`, a misleading title if ever there was one as Frankie is
not instructing a pilot to actually carry out that task rather he is simply
using it as a metaphor. His demeanour might have been far less cool had someone
actually attempted to fly him to the Moon! There’s old grumpy chops Van Morrison’s
assertion that it’s a wonderful night for a `Moondance` but it is just too
difficult to imagine him dancing. `The Whole of the Moon`, The Waterboys’ epic
tribute to Prince takes its name from one of many comparisons writer Mike Scott
makes between himself and the Purple one- “I saw the crescent, you saw the
whole of the Moon”. And we have to mention `Dark Side of the Moon`, the best
selling Pink Floy opus yet this once again uses the Moon as a symbol in a work
about fulfilment or sanity (or otherwise). On the other hand the much less epic
`Sleeping Satellite` sung by Tasmin Archer is actually about the Moon and not
just that, it’s about the Apollo missions. Even more impressively it laments
the ending of the missions and expresses the hope that they will one day
resume. That’s quite an achievement for a chart topping single.
