Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Watch Bill Murray's 'Star Wars' song covered by Oscar Isaac
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Your support makes all the difference.Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Oscar Isaac covered Bill Murray's version of the "Star Wars" theme.
Back in 1978, soon after A New Hope's release, Bill Murray performed the track on Saturday Night Live; as a skit featuring one of his regular characters, lounge singer Nick Winters.
Murray returned for SNL's 40th anniversary, where he took on another iconic cinematic theme under the alias Nick Ocean, singing what he referred to as the "Love Theme from Jaws", "You made me part of you — now Jaws, you've found someone new. Why? Jaws? Jaws, why? Wasn't I enough for you?"
Isaac, who plays X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens, gave his own spin on the track for GQ magazine. A real treat considering Isaac's own highly musical background; having played in several bands in his hometown of Miami, including lead guitar and vocals for the Blinking Underdogs and bass for ska band The Worms.
He then, of course, famously played the struggling folk musician at the centre of the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, in which he sang a song begging President Kennedy not to send him into space with, you guessed it, Kylo Ren (or, Adam Driver, to be exact).
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