{"id":227726,"date":"2023-05-05T03:54:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=287438"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:18:56","slug":"that-time-bon-jovi-made-his-debut-on-a-psychotronic-star-wars-christmas-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/that-time-bon-jovi-made-his-debut-on-a-psychotronic-star-wars-christmas-disc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi and ‘Star Wars’: The incredible story behind their psychotronic Christmas album debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Star Wars’<\/a> has a strange relationship with Christmas. For some reason, it just can’t seem to find the key to linking a galaxy far, far away with a Christian holiday on Earth, but it’s not because they haven’t tried. First, with the infamous ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’, which, contrary to popular belief, referenced Thanksgiving<\/strong> in its “Holiday” (it aired on November 17, 1978). The special was so bad that not even the dolls that were to be made to celebrate it and force fans to checkout came out of the factory. But there was still one more nail in the ignonimia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In November 1980, an album was the first attempt of the galactic saga to break the confines of movies, comics<\/a> and novels, trying to join Christmas and ‘Star Wars’ in a coherent way: ‘Christmas in the Stars’<\/strong>. The album was narrated and partially sung by Anthony Daniels, the mythical C3PO, and R2D2 and Chewbacca also contributed their parts in songs like ‘What can you buy a wookiee for Christmas (when he already has a comb)’. I wish I had made that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album told stories about a droid factory that made toys for a certain S. Claus, Santa’s son, taking for granted the existence of Santa Claus in George Lucas’ universe. Be careful, because Meco Monardo, the author of the album, who wrote nine pages to Lucas indicating why they had to make Christmas versions<\/strong>, received telephone instructions from the director himself to take care of the franchise. For example, no one was to kiss Chewbacca. We didn’t know about George Lucas’ Wookiephobia. Maury Yeston, who two years later would win the Tony for ‘Nine’, was in charge of the musicality of the songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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