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“The Surrealist Woman” - Theme from Salvador Dalí’s "Giraffes on Horseback Salad” starring the Marx Brothers

Q: What is the most streamed song of the 20th century?

A: Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Q: What album it's from?

A:  "A Night at The Opera"


"A Night at the Opera" is the title Queen "borrowed" from the Marx Brothers' film - the film that Harpo Marx was promoting in Europe in 1936. One night he found himself in a wild party, and there he met a most immaculately dressed gentleman named Salvador Dalí.

The pair of itinerant madmen hit it off instantly, enjoying a night of drinking, dancing, and generally surreal socializing, which mostly consisted of the two smiling at each other, unable to communicate. (Of course Harpo, being Harpo, had no problem communicating without words). After they parted, The Surrealist and the comedian became unlikely pen pals.

This beginning of a beautiful friendship led to many things, including a film script Dalí wrote for the Brothers. But MGM film studio head Louis B. Mayer didn't particularly like the Marx Brothers or know what to make of Salvador Dalí, and so he killed the project The Surrealist had titled “Giraffes on Horseback Salad”.

Almost 80 years later writer Josh Frank turned that somewhat incomprehensible screenplay into a graphic novel and Pepe Deluxé wrote and recorded musical-film-in-a-comic-book-format’s theme song, using original ideas from Dalí and historical instruments including Harpo Marx’s harp and a Sonovox-effect. The song’s original instrumental version was composed for Phantom Cabinet.

Words from Here

 

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