Star Wars - A Wind To Shake The Stars - 1/3

[Andybaby]

Who the hell disliked this?

[Aegean044]

Thanks, remember listening to this on the radio. Happy Days :)

[LadyMoondancer]

thank you for posting this. I had recorded this off NPR radio and still have the old tapes, then I bought the set. Now I'm working on getting my music collection transfered to MP3

you have saved me some work. (just have to download thru realplayer, then convert to MP3)

outside of all that - This adaptation is sooo cool!

[cgrscott]

This reminds me of American Graffiti.

[collegeman1988]

I remember this radio series well. Before the days of movies being released onto DVD just six months after they were in theaters, and before a VHS player was in everyone's home, the only way you could "watch" Star Wars at home in 1981 was on NPR. This series aired on NPR from April to July 1981 and is the best radio adaptation of a movie ever. It fills in all the backstory that wasn't in the movie and all of the music and sound design from the original movie is there. Great!

[dan1986ist]

RIP Brian Daley

[darkempire37]

this greatly enhances ones enjoyment of the films and explains a lot of things going on offscreeen.thanks for posting.

[TomMSTie]

Interesting how much the sound FX for Luke's Skyhopper sounds like a Pod Racer.

[devojane]

@TomMSTie It's totally the same sound effect. I haven't heard this in maybe twenty years, now I notice stuff I never did before. Like Adam Arkin as the Fixer!

[cjswench]

i have all these SW dramas and they are good. and to answer a few Qs - yes they did film the the Biggs/Luke scene but never used it.

[Tulkastaldo]

There are pictures from 1977 of actors dressed to play Cammie and The Fixer , meaning these characters were going to be in the movie at one point. I wonder how much of this extra beginning stuff was actually filmed?

[tobar1p]

@Tulkastaldo They released the deleted scene of Luke rushing to Anchorhead and meeting with Biggs on a CD-ROM called Behind the Magic. It's up on youtube if you look for it.

[favorites411]

cooooool! thx man your so awesome! I've been looking for this for 3 weeks!

[Tulkastaldo]

Luke humming along with the Star Wars theme was a strange touch. Is that the music that the empire uses to recruit people?

[favorites411]

That was wierd.

[jinxer70]

it brings back wonderful memories. thanks a million

[retro38]

YES! Thank you very much. I used to have them all either on cassette or audio CD years ago. I have been looking for months for this.

[Ljaahni]

Just finished listening through the play, and it was awesome! Thanks a lot for this pal!

[anna11235813]

Thank you very much for this!!