{"id":71399,"date":"2022-07-12T21:33:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=71399"},"modified":"2022-07-12T21:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T02:34:46","slug":"brian-may-graham-gouldman-to-mark-historic-images-delivered-from-james-webb-space-telescope-with-floating-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2022\/brian-may-graham-gouldman-to-mark-historic-images-delivered-from-james-webb-space-telescope-with-floating-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May &#038; Graham Gouldman to mark historic images delivered from James Webb Space Telescope with \u201cFloating In Heaven\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Graham Gouldman and Brian May - Floating in Heaven (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOTFcnexJBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>JWST now has its own soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BrianMay.lnk.to\/FloatingInHeaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.BrianMay.lnk.to\/FloatingInHeaven<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most powerful telescope ever launched into space, the James Webb Space Telescope &#8211; launched December 2021 and which&nbsp;entered orbit in January 2022&nbsp;\u2013 finally&nbsp;becomes operational this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intended to succeed Hubble as NASA&#8217;s flagship mission in astrophysics,&nbsp;the NASA space agency has scheduled the first official JWST science images release event for Tuesday, July 12th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a well-renowned passion for Astronomy, having earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College, London, in 2007 and a &#8220;science team collaborator&#8221; with NASA&#8217;s New Horizons Pluto mission \u2013 May notably launched his track New Horizons from NASA headquarters on New Year&#8217;s Day 2019 to mark the flyby of the distant object Ultima Thule \u2013&nbsp; May now teams with fellow space science enthusiast, 10cc frontman Graham Gouldman to recognise this discovery moment with new music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Gouldman, he and May have created a special new track to mark the historic JWST images reveal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Floating In Heaven,&#8221;&nbsp;written and performed by Gouldman and featuring May on guitar and vocals, will have a special digital &amp; streaming release on July 12 to coincide with the highly anticipated release of first pictures brought to earth by the JWST.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track has come with a specially created new video which has premiered today (Tuesday, July 12)&nbsp;on Queen Official YouTube channel.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reybee.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&amp;id=be004cf7b1&amp;e=89ec9f4649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/hOTFcnexJBg<\/a><br \/><br \/>Talking of his fascination with space exploration May says:<br \/>&#8220;<em>There is nothing more exciting in a world of exploration than going to a place about which you know nothing. The sky&#8217;s the limit for what we could find out<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May&#8217;s most widely recognised space-related song of course dates back to his earliest days with Queen:&nbsp;his song, &#8220;39,&#8221;&nbsp;the story of a group of space explorers who return home to find that, during their one year of travel, a century had passed on Earth, first appeared on Queen&#8217;s 1975&nbsp;<em>A Night At The Opera<\/em>&nbsp;album. May continues to routinely perform the song in the band&#8217;s live concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Brian-May-joins-10cc-founder-Graham-Gouldman-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Brian-May-joins-10cc-founder-Graham-Gouldman-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Brian-May-joins-10cc-founder-Graham-Gouldman-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Brian-May-joins-10cc-founder-Graham-Gouldman-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Brian-May-joins-10cc-founder-Graham-Gouldman-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Brian-May-joins-10cc-founder-Graham-Gouldman.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Floating In Heaven&#8221;<br \/>Performed by: Graham Gouldman \u2013 Brian May<br \/>Written by Graham Gouldman<br \/><br \/>Graham Gouldman:<br \/>Lead Vocal and Backing Vocals&nbsp;<br \/>Bass Guitar<br \/>Acoustic Guitars<br \/>Slide Guitar<br \/>Drum Programming<br \/>Gizmotron<br \/><br \/>Brian May:<br \/>Guitars<br \/>Backing Vocals<br \/><br \/>Graeme Pleeth:<br \/>Hammond Organ<br \/>Piano<br \/>Synth&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>Produced by: Graham Gouldman, Graeme Pleeth and Brian May<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineered and Mixed by:&nbsp;Graeme Pleeth and Justin Shirley-Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional engineering by Kris Fredriksson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mastered by: Bob Ludwig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">JWST now has its own soundtrack. Listen: http:\/\/www.BrianMay.lnk.to\/FloatingInHeaven The most powerful telescope ever launched into space, the James Webb Space Telescope &#8211; launched December 2021 and which&nbsp;entered orbit in January 2022&nbsp;\u2013 finally&nbsp;becomes operational this week. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2022\/brian-may-graham-gouldman-to-mark-historic-images-delivered-from-james-webb-space-telescope-with-floating-in-heaven\/\" title=\"Brian May &#038; Graham Gouldman to mark historic images delivered from James Webb Space Telescope with \u201cFloating In Heaven\u201d\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11638,15785,15783,15784],"class_list":{"0":"post-71399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-wires","8":"tag-brian-may","9":"tag-floating-in-heaven","10":"tag-graham-gouldman","11":"tag-james-webb-space-telescope"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}