Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

Performances included Clapton and Preston on " Isn't It a Pity "; Starr on " Photograph "; McCartney and Clapton on " Something " ( McCartney opening with a solo ukulele accompaniment which then shifts into a full band version featuring Clapton ); Preston on " My Sweet Lord "; McCartney, Clapton and Starr reuniting on " While My Guitar Gently Weeps "; and the performance of " Wah Wah ".

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One incident involved Gently attempting to scam his university classmates into paying for a set of answers to an exam, supposedly obtained using psychic powers that Gently did not think he had.

* Gently put water into the nostrils with the right hand, pinch the top of the nose with the left hand to exhale the water.

Adams would later recycle elements of City of Death and the unbroadcast Shada into his Dirk Gently novels.

The very beginning of the song is reminiscent of the Beatles ' " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", which is preceded by laughing and talking, with the phrase " Hey-yo " leading right into the song.

Richard discusses this with his former college friend Dirk Gently, who claims to be a " Holistic Detective " believing in the " fundamental interconnectedness of all things ".

Stephen Mangan played Gently, with Darren Boyd as Macduff and Helen Baxendale as Susan.

No singles were taken from The Beatles in either Britain or America, but " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " backed with " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", both from the album, became a double-sided smash in Australia, spending five weeks at Number One in the beginning of 1969.

In 2007, the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet ( 1966 ), Keep an Eye on Amélie ( 1973 ), The Cherry Orchard ( 1981 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Ghosts ( with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987 ), Make and Break ( with Robert Hardy, 1987 ), Can You Hear Me Thinking?

Jackson toured 45 US and European cities in 2005 with Todd Rundgren and the string quartet Ethel, appearing on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien performing their collaborative cover version of " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ".

* Ella Swings Gently with Nelson – Ella Fitzgerald

She had more hits with the more pop-based songs " That's All You Gotta Do " ( No. 6 ), " Emotions " ( No. 7 ), " You Can Depend on Me " ( No. 6 ), " Dum Dum " ( No. 4 ), 1962's " Break It to Me Gently " ( No. 2 ), " Everybody Loves Me But You " ( No. 6 ), and " As Usual " ( No. 12 ).

Both Kember and Pierce continue to perform some Spacemen 3 songs live ( e. g. " Transparent Radiation ", " Revolution ", " Suicide ", " Set Me Free ", " Che " and " Let Me Down Gently " ; and " Walkin ' with Jesus ", " Amen " and " Lord Can You Hear Me?

Gently, pleasantly, and with a smile.

KCET's 2012 schedule includes, " Open Call ," a weekly series showcasing arts and culture in Southern California hosted by opera sensation Suzanna Guzman ; expansion of its interview program, LA Tonight with Roy Firestone ; as well as Your Turn to Care, a four-part documentary about caregivers hosted by Holly Robinson Peete and its complementary online site: www. yourturntocare. org ; BBC crime drama Inspector George Gently ; and Classic Cool Theater, a showcase of classic films, cartoons and newsreels.

In 1962, Riddle orchestrated two albums for Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson, and Ella Swings Gently with Nelson, their first work together since 1959's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.

Burton Cummings, who had been lead singer of the Guess Who, had a successful solo career with softer hits including " Stand Tall ", " Scared ", and " Break it to Them Gently ".

Fenton also collaborated regularly with the director Stephen Frears, composing for his television productions of Bloody Kids ( 1979 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Saigon: Year of the Cat ( 1983 ), and Walter and June ( 1983 ).

Gently scrubbing the eyelid with the warm compress is recommended as it eases the healing process.

On their 1991 tour of Japan, Harrison and Clapton performed a live version of " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " with additional background vocals.

" While My Guitar Gently Weeps " was played in tribute by Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Steve Ferrone, Marc Mann, and Dhani Harrison, along with fellow inductee Prince.

McKuen had additional major hits with " The World I Used to Know ", " Rock Gently ", " Doesn't Anybody Know My Name ", " The Importance of the Rose ", " Without a Worry in the World ", and " Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes "..

The Dirk Gently version of the character is almost identical to the Shada version, though the novel contains no references to Time Lords.

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In Sean O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock one of the characters quotes Aesop " Gently touch a nettle and it'll sting you for your pains / Grasp it as a lad of mettle and soft as silk remains ".

Gently sloping wave-cut platforms develop early on in the first stages of cliff retreat.

Gently push a piece of the tube containing the intersection along the fourth dimension, out of the original three dimensional space.

He also provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image, and starred as Dirk Gently in the BBC Radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

The only recurring major characters are the eponymous Gently, his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks.

These trademark elements from Doctor Who were removed by Adams for Dirk Gently.

* Dirk Gently ( also known by a number of other names, including Svlad Cjelli ), the operator of the eponymous detective agency that operates based on the " fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Adams episode of the British arts documentary series The South Bank Show.

Announced on 26 January 2007, BBC Radio 4 commissioned Above the Title Productions to make eighteen 30-minute adaptations of Douglas Adams ' Dirk Gently books ( including The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt ), running in three series of six episodes.

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The Salmon of Doubt was originally intended to be a Dirk Gently novel.

The plot, set a few weeks after the events in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, involves Dirk Gently refusing to help find the missing half of a cat, receiving large amounts of money from an unknown client, and then flying to the United States.

BBC Radio 4 had commissioned a third Dirk Gently six-part radio series for broadcast in mid-2010, based on the uncompleted chapters of The Salmon of Doubt, and written by Spice World writer Kim Fuller.

As well as performing a trio of his own hits during the ceremony, Prince also participated in a tribute to fellow inductee George Harrison in a rendering of Harrison's " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", playing a long guitar solo that ended the song.

In 2006, Martin inadvertently strengthened his image as the " fifth Beatle " by contributing the only piece of new music on the LOVE soundtrack: a string arrangement on top of George Harrison's solo acoustic demo of " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " from Anthology 3.

Originally " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " had only the first guitar solo in the song off of the album.

In 1996, Minnelli released a new studio album titled Gently.

The Salmon of Doubt was published posthumously, containing, alongside numerous articles written by Adams, several chapters belonging to a new storyline for a third " Dirk Gently " novel.

Short, relatively low-quality sound sample from " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " by The Beatles.

It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.