TOM RAPP & PEARLS BEFORE SWINE Stardancer (2009 issue UK 10-track CD album, originally released on Blue Thumb Records in 1972 and including the fierce anti-war song 'Fourth Day of July', with its references to 'the broken children of Vietnam', was widely played in underground' circles of the time plus the lighthearted 'Summer of '55' contains some of Rapp's cleverest aphorisms, such as 'When the day breaks / the pieces fall on you' and two of his other songs, 'Stardancer' & 'For The Dead In Space', reflecton themes of loss against a background of space travel and can be seen as reworkings of Pearls Before Swine's earlier 'Rocket Man')