Editing Marvin the Paranoid Android (section)

==Songs==
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Stephen Moore released two [[popular music|pop]] [[single (music)|singles]]—"Marvin/Metal Man"<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.discogs.com/Marvin-The-Paranoid-Android-Marvin/release/1154072 | title=Marvin The Paranoid Android – Marvin (Vinyl) | publisher=[[Discogs]] | website=Discogs.com | access-date=2012-04-15 }}</ref> and "Reasons to Be Miserable/Marvin I Love You" (double [[B-side]])—in the UK in 1981, though neither reached the [[UK Top 40|top 40]]. One song was re-recorded and rearranged to coincide with the 2005 Hitchhiker's movie release, "Reasons To Be Miserable (His Name Is Marvin)", performed by [[Stephen Fry]] (singing in the third-person, not as Marvin).{{fact|date=December 2023}}

==="Marvin"===
"Marvin" was released in 1981. It was a minor hit, reaching number 52 in the British Charts.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Tony |last2=Kutner |first2=Jon |last3=Warwick |first3=Neil |title=The Complete Book of the British Charts |edition=2nd |year=2002 |publisher=Omnibus |page=646 |isbn=0-7119-9075-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Rubenstien |first=Michael-Anne |date=March 2002 |title=Share and Enjoy: M.J. Simpson. A Completely and Utterly Unauthorized Guide to THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE |url=http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/birs/bir86b.htm |access-date=October 5, 2012 |journal=Science Fiction Studies |volume=29 |issue=86, number 1 |location=[[Greencastle, Indiana]] |publisher=[[DePauw University]] |issn=0091-7729 |quote=Fans will not want to miss this book, as it contains information they didn't even know that they didn't even know. For instance, did you know that Marvin is the only robot listed in ''The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles''?}}</ref>

The song involves Marvin describing his woes ("My moving parts are in a solid state") and frustrations ("You know what really makes me mad? They clean me with a [[Brillo Pad]]"), to a [[synthesiser]] backing. The intro to the song consists of a simple [[guitar]] figure, but with the tape reversed so that the notes play backwards.{{fact|date=December 2023}}

The vocal was performed by [[Stephen Moore (actor)|Stephen Moore]], who had played Marvin on the radio and television series. Moore also narrated the ship's captain on the B-side.{{fact|date=December 2023}}

"Metal Man" was the B-side. The song involves a spoken exchange between the starship captain (also played by Moore, as is a cameo radio voice) and the depressed robot Marvin. The starship is falling into a black hole, and can only be saved by assigning control to Marvin. In thanks for saving the ship, Marvin is relegated back to a menial servant. Such is the lot of a robot.{{fact|date=December 2023}}

"Marvin" was incorporated into the 2012 live radio show.{{fact|date=December 2023}}

===The Double B-Side===
"Reasons To Be Miserable" was released in 1981. Its official title was ''The Double 'B'-Side'', and it was a double B-side single released by [[Polydor]]<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.discogs.com/Marvin-The-Paranoid-Android-The-Double-B-Side/release/214117 |title=Marvin The Paranoid Android – The Double B-Side |access-date=15 April 2012 |type=Vinyl |website=[[Discogs]]}}</ref> on Depressive Discs. The song involves Marvin describing his views on life ("I'd feel a little better if they broke me up for spares", "If I had my time again, I'd rather be a lemming"), to a [[synthesiser]] backing. The title is a reference to the hit song "[[Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3]]" by [[Ian Dury]] and [[The Blockheads]].

"Marvin I Love You" was the other B-side. Marvin describes finding a love letter in his data banks eons after receiving it. The female vocal is provided by [[Kimi and Ritz|Kimi Wong-O'Brien]]. The song was a frequently requested tune on the [[Dr. Demento]] radio show, and was featured on several Dr. Demento compilation albums. As of 2008, it is ranked 56 out of the top 100 favorite novelty tunes on the official Dr. Demento web site.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://solonor.com/100demented.html | title=Dr. Demento's TOP 100 (or so) DEMENTED HITS (from Funny 25’s) – 1974 to 2022 | website=Solonor.com | accessdate=20 December 2023 }}</ref>

===Marvin's lullaby===
"How I Hate the Night", also known as "Marvin's lullaby", was published in the book ''[[Life, the Universe and Everything]]'', where it is described as "a short dolorous ditty of no tone, or indeed tune." The first verse of "Marvin's Lullaby" appears close to the end of the episode "Fit the Seventeenth", and the second verse soon after the start of "Fit the Eighteenth" as listed below:{{fact|date=December 2023}}

:Now the world has gone to bed
:Darkness won't engulf my head
:I can see by infra-red
:How I hate the night

:Now I lay me down to sleep
:Try to count electric sheep
:Sweet dream wishes you can keep
:How I hate the night

The line "try to count electric sheep" is a reference to [[Philip K. Dick]]'s novel ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'', which inspired the movie ''[[Blade Runner]]''. According to ''Don't Panic'', Douglas Adams wrote a guitar tune for the lullaby, and thought it should have been released.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gaiman |first=Neil |title=Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy |edition=2nd |year=1993 |publisher=Titan Books |isbn=1-85286-411-7 |page=75}}</ref> In the radio series, Stephen Moore sings the words to a tune resembling "Abendsegen" from [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Humperdinck]]'s opera ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]''.
The song was performed at the very end of the 2012 live radio show.

===Outside the ''Hitchhiker's'' universe===
In the episode "Sibling Tsunami" of the animated series ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'', when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character, replied: "The usual, life, the universe, everything", a reference not only to Marvin, but the "[[Ultimate Question|Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything]]", a central tenet of the series' storyline (as well as the title of the third book).{{fact|date=December 2023}}

British alternative rock group [[Radiohead]] named "[[Paranoid Android]]", the lead single from their 1997 album ''[[OK Computer]]'', after Marvin. "Paranoid Android" frequently appears on lists of greatest songs of all time and has been described as "possibly the most acclaimed song from the most acclaimed album of all time."<ref name="Greene Greene 2020 v014">{{cite magazine | last=Greene | first=Andy | title=500 Greatest Albums: Radiohead's Futuristic Breakthrough 'OK Computer' | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=2020-09-24 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/500-greatest-albums-radiohead-ok-computer-1059469/ | access-date=2023-08-20}}</ref><ref name="Nast 2017 l807">{{cite web | title=Radiohead: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 | website=Pitchfork | date=2017-06-22 | url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/radiohead-ok-computer-oknotok-1997-2017/ | access-date=2023-08-20}}</ref>

Marvin's origins (including those of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and the HitchHikers handheld device) are referenced in the 2008 radio series ''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial)|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]]''. In episode 4, Dirk Gently phones his friend Richard McDuff, who now works for a new startup, Sirius Cybernetics. Occasionally, background noises of electronic groans and air pistons can be heard. At the end of the phone call, the electronic voice of Stephen Moore says "Richard, I think we might have a problem with these diodes."<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f07g9 | publisher=[[BBC]] | location=UK | work=[[BBC Radio 4]] Programmes | title=Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Episode 4 | access-date=2008-10-27}}</ref>

Marvin appeared and was declared the winner in the Q-series episode "Quests: Part II" of the panel game show [[QI]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Marvin the Paranoid Android Comes to QI | author=QI | author-link=QI | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bmh_A3Zvic | website=[[YouTube]] | date=7 May 2022 | access-date=20 December 2023 }}</ref>