# Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Question

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 23, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-question/416610 "2007-08-23T06:12:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-question/416610/1 "2007-08-23T06:12:54Z")

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What is the album that Arthur plays in _So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish_ when he and Fenchurch are doing unspeakable things in midair with walkmen?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-question/416610/2 "2007-08-23T06:22:13Z")

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It was Dire Straits, but I don’t think it names the specific album.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-question/416610/3 "2007-08-23T06:30:18Z")

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Dang. I was looking forward to playing it with a fellow hoopy frood.

Anyone have any recommendations on where to find the “good bit”?

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-question/416610/4 "2007-08-23T06:36:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive]  
Dang. I was looking forward to playing it with a fellow hoopy frood.

Anyone have any recommendations on where to find the “good bit”?  
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Aha. I found [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams#Other_musical_links) on wiki.

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> Adams later revealed that the particular song to which he refers in the book — although never by name — is “Tunnel of Love”, from the Making Movies album

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I guess the “good bit” is the guitar solo.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-question/416610/5 "2007-08-23T06:49:08Z")

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You, sir, are both a gentleman and a scholar. You must know where your towel is.