The first Death Star's construction is the subject of Michael Reaves and Steve Perry's novel Death Star.

Perry's vocal duties were later taken over by Steve Augeri of Tall Stories, and nearly two years after the album's initial release, Journey began its long-postponed tour.

Sony record executive, American Idol judge and musician Randy Jackson described Perry's as " the golden voice ", and opined that " Other than Robert Plant, there's no singer in rock that even came close to Steve Perry.

Greg Prato of Allmusic wrote, " If only one singer could be selected as the most identifiable with ' 80s arena rock, it would have to be Journey's Steve Perry "; colleague John Franck praised Perry's as a " soaring, whale of a voice.

In frontman Steve Perry's words, White Hot Odyssey was an attempt to bring the " roll " back to " rock and roll ", an experiment in " sexual, stupid, big dumb rock " reminiscent of the glam, hard rock and protopunk of the 1970s.

Album cover of Steve Perry's Street Talk

* Steve Austin, fictional character in Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, which inspired the television series The Six Million Dollar Man

The Loch Ness tooth was a publicity stunt to promote a horror novel by Steve Alten titled The Loch.

He also appeared alongside Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, and Jamie Lee Curtis in Steve Rash's Queens Logic, and opposite Tom Berenger and Kathy Bates in Hector Babenco's film At Play in the Fields of the Lord, adapted from Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel.

The background story of the original novel and the later series is the crash of former astronaut Steve Austin in a “ lifting body ” craft, shown in the opening credits of the show.

For the 1996 Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire ( written by author Steve Perry ), Lucasfilm chose Joel McNeely to write a score.

Beginning in 1989 Campbell illustrated Alan Moore's ambitious Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell, serialised initially in Steve Bissette's horror anthology Taboo.

* The place is prominent in Steve Alten's science fiction novel Domain.

Fox Atomic Comics, in association with HarperCollins, has published a graphic novel bridging the time gap between 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, entitled 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, written by Steve Niles.

It was the directing debut of screenwriter Nicholas Meyer, whose screenplay is based largely on the uncredited novel of the same name by Karl Alexander ( which was unfinished during the time the film was made ) and a story by the latter and Steve Hayes.

The screenplay was adapted by Steve Shagan from his novel of the same title ( the first book by the author of The Formula and other thrillers, and generally regarded to be his most successful novel by literary standards ).

In 2002, Steve Guttenberg combined the play and the novel into a movie, which he co-wrote with comedian Jeff Korn, and directed, starring himself as the writer, Cynthia Watros as his newly-ex-girlfriend Kate and Lombardo Boyar as the youthful burglar Eddie.

Tom Clancy's Net Force is a novel series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Steve Perry.

It features actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, which is a fictional account of the narrator's attempt at writing an autobiography.

* Steve Roberts From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America ( novel, a. o.

In 1999, the novel was adapted into an illustrated hardback children's book by Janet Schulman, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, and published by Simon & Schuster as part of its " Atheneum Books for Young Readers " imprint.

* A 1976 novel by Steve Wilson, The Lost Traveller, deals with a post-apocalyptic world in which descendants of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang act as paramilitary forces for a community called the Fief.

* The Last Best Hope ( 1998 ), a novel in McBain's Matthew Hope series, features Steve Carella as a supporting character.

* A number of spin-off media have provided additional explanation for the Doctor's regeneration including the Virgin New Adventures novels Timewyrm: Revelation, Love and War by Paul Cornell, Head Games by Steve Lyons, all of which speculate that the Seventh Doctor's ' essence ' drove the Sixth Doctor to pilot the TARDIS into the Rani's tractor beam to become Time's Champion and prevent himself from becoming the Valeyard, and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Spiral Scratch by Gary Russell, which features the Sixth Doctor sacrificing much of his energy to prevent a pan-dimensional being from destroying creation, leaving him in a weakened physical condition before the Rani's attack.

* Angel ( Meg series ), a shark in the novel series Meg, by Steve Alten

* The Final Sanction by Steve Lyons, a novel based on Doctor Who featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe ( set in the year 2204 ).

* adaptation of the James Clavell novel Tai-Pan, intended to star Steve McQueen ( not used when the movie was made in 1986 )

The title single was a huge hit worldwide which has been covered by dozens of artists, including The Blues Brothers ( featuring guitarist Steve Cropper ), The Ventures, Al Kooper, The Shadows, Mongo Santamaría, Roy Buchanan ( also featuring Steve Cropper and Jan Hammer ), Count Basie and many others.

* Shadows of the Empire ( August 2000 )-Mini-expansion of around 20 cards based on the book, Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry.

Despite its controversy and the fact that the cast included Steve Carlson, Jane Elliot ( fresh from her run as Tracy on GH & Carrie on GL ), and Lara Parker ( famous as the witch Angelique on the cult Dark Shadows ) and that it was produced and sometimes directed by daytime veteran actress Susan Flannery, A New Day in Eden only lasted 13 episodes, and its cliffhanger left the question of who was the town's serial rapist up in the air.

) Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction & Essays of Clark Ashton Smith ( with Steve Behrends and Rah Hoffman ; New York: Greenwood Press, 1989 ).

Many other Rock and Roll drummers have switched to or began with Ludwig drums during their careers: Brian Bennett of the Shadows, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, Simon Kirke of Bad Company, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Ronnie Tutt with Elvis Presley, Aynsley Dunbar of Journey, Jefferson Starship, Peter Criss ( before switching to Pearl ) and his successor, Eric Carr of KISS, Lars Ulrich of Metallica ( before switching to Tama ), Herman Rarebell of Scorpions, Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues, Roger Pope of Hookfoot, Elton John and Hall and Oates, Scott Rockenfield of Queensryche, Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia, Alan White of Yes, Matt Frenette of Loverboy, Steve Negus of Saga, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, Will Berman of MGMT, Rob Bennett of The Pacific Raiders, Carlton Barret ( Bob Marley and the Wailers ) and Baxter Mawoza of Synthesisare.

Successful Birmingham singer / songwriters and musicians include: Joan Armatrading, Steve Gibbons, Mike Kellie ( of Spooky Tooth ), Blaze Bayley ( former vocalist of Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden ), Keith Law ( of Velvett Fogg & Jardine ) Jeff Lynne, Phil Lynott, Carl Palmer ( of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ), Roy Wood, Jamelia, Kelli Dayton of The Sneaker Pimps, Juice Aleem ( from Big Dada Records ), Martin Barre ( guitarist with Jethro Tull ), Nick Mason ( of Pink Floyd ), Bev Bevan, Ali Campbell, Steve Cradock ( guitarist for Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller ), Stephen " Tin Tin " Duffy, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Denny Laine, Fritz Mcintyre ( keyboardist of Simply Red ), Christine Perfect ( of Fleetwood Mac ), Robert Plant ( born in West Brom and played in Brumbeat bands ), Nick Rhodes, Ranking Roger, John Henry Rostill ( bass guitarist / composer for The Shadows ), Matt Skinner, Dave Swarbrick ( of Fairport Convention ), John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Ruby Turner, Ted Turner ( guitar / vocals, Wishbone Ash ), Peter Overend Watts, Steve Winwood and Dave Mason.

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* 1980: The Empire Strikes Back-Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton

On Saturday November 19, 2011 Steve performed " The Last Supper " at The Shepherd's Bush Empire in London where he was joined on stage by Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine.

The guests included the band Green Day, Steve Buscemi, star of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, Vincent Pastore, aka " Big Pussy " from the The Sopranos, actor and director Tim Robbins, and singer Debbie Harry of the group " Blondie.

Varney also lent his voice to Slinky Dog in Disney's Toy Story 1 and 2 in the Toy Story series ( Varney was replaced by Blake Clark in Toy Story 3 due to his death in 2000 ), and played numerous others, including " Cookie " Farnsworth, from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, released the year after his death ( Steve Barr replaced Varney for the sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return ), the carny character Cooter in the " Bart Carny " episode of The Simpsons, the character Walt Evergreen in the Duckman episode " You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby ", Prince Carlos Charmaine ( a royal suitor Jackie dates ) for a few episodes of the final season of the 1990s television series Roseanne, and Lothar Zogg in the 1998 film 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, also starring Hulk Hogan and Loni Anderson as well as Toby Shephard in Jumanji.

The album was recorded between December 2003 and April 2004 at Empire View Studios, NYC, Globe Studios, NYC and Elegant Too Studios with production and mixing credits including Dan The Automator, DJ Shadow, Steve Jordan, Free Association … David Holmes, Jay Braun, Alan Moulder, Danny Madorsky, Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez ( Elegant Too ) as well as the Blues Explosion, Jon Spencer and Russell Simins.

Empire included drummer Steve Riley ( LA Guns ).

In 2005 she appeared at the Empire Plush Room in San Francisco, accompanied by Billy Stritchand her husband, Steve Bakunas.

He co-starred in the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire ( about the rise of Atlantic City during the Prohibition era ), with Steve Buscemi.

* 1997-Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Cake, Powderfinger, Veruca Salt, Spiderbait, Ben Folds Five, Reef, Ween, Sneaker Pimps, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes, Bloodhound Gang, Lewd, Jason Fawlkner Band, Aquanaught, Ammonia, Webster, Pangaea, Millencollin, Screamfeeder, Sidewinder, Shihad, Tomorrow People, Bodyjar, Grinspoon, Zeni Geva, The Porkers, Strapping Young Lad, Not From There, The Superjesus, Bulldozer, Ed Kuepper, Cordrazine, Damien Lovelock, Steve Kilbey, Black Eyed Susans, Rebecca's Empire, Resin Dogs

* During the episode " Anastasia " of Season 1 ( 2010 ) of drama television series Boardwalk Empire set in the mid-1920s a high-ranking politician visited Steve Buscemi's character Nucky Thompson at his home, and ordered a " Pimm's Cup ".

In 2007, the band re-formed for an intended one-off gig supporting ex-Crass vocalist Steve Ignorant for his " The Feeding Of The 5000 " gig at London's Shepherds Bush Empire in November of that year.

Live Stage: Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Sasha ( Vortek live ), Boys Noize, Steve Aoki, Simian Mobile Disco ( live ), The Klaxons, Mr. Oizo, Bag Raiders, Conspirator.

* 2010: Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire as Enoch " Nucky " Thompson

** Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire as Enoch " Nucky " Thompson

Joined by their drummer Loz Vegas, whom they met at school, Milk Kan's first single " Bling Bling Baby " ( PIAS Records ) reached No. 13 in the independent charts, and was played by BBC DJs Chris Moyles, Steve Lamacq, Jonathan Ross and Mark Radcliffe, leading Milk Kan into live performances, supporting the Violent Femmes at Shepherd's Bush Empire, the Strokes at Hyde Park ’ s Wireless Festival, Babyshambles at East London's Rhythm Factory and UK tours supporting ska punks The King Blues.

* Best Game Review or Game Analysis ( tie )— Empire of the Sun: Opening Strategy, by Mark Herman ( C3i Magazine ) and Top 20 Games – A Look Back by Steve Carey ( C3i Magazine )

*" Natural Thinker ," Cover story by Steve Lipscher, Denver Post Empire Magazine, June 8, 1997, cover and pages 12 – 15, 22.

* " From the Assassination of Sadat to the Birth of Brooklyn ’ s Empire " An Interview with co-founder, Steve Hindy, by Masha Udensiva-Brenner, Construction Magazine, June 20, 2011.

" Instead, Dylan again second-guessed some of his better lines ... and absolutely one of his best vocals from a fraught decade, rerecording the song ... with a whomping synthesizer and horns track ..." Music critic Tim Riley argued, " the alternate take ... has such an undeniably raunchy attitude ( and guitar solo by Miami Steve Van Zandt ) you wonder why Dylan stuck with the lifeless take that makes Empire Burlesque drift off on side two.

* Worlds of Empire by Allen Thomas, Ben Seeman, Jason Walters, Steve Long, and Darren Watts, 2006

On the HBO original series Boardwalk Empire, the character of Enoch " Nucky " Thompson ( portrayed by Steve Buscemi ), the treasurer of Atlantic County, occupies the entire 9th floor of a fictionalized version of the hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.