Lee Majors Come Again

Album: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This hardcore punk-esque track deals with the career of Lee Majors, star of the '70s TV series Six Million Dollar Man. Majors played Colonel Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut with bionic limbs.
  • "Lee Majors Come Again" was released in 2009 as the first single from Beastie Boys' upcoming album, which at the time was called Hot Sauce Committee Part One. They issued another single, "Too Many Rappers" (featuring Nas) but got derailed when group member Adam Yauch (MCA) got cancer. The album didn't appear until 2011 and was titled Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. It ended up being their last album, as Yauch died the following year.
  • The track's first appearance in media was on the 2009 game DJ Hero, where it was paired with Daft Punk's "Da Funk."
  • The lyric, "I seen your grandpa in apple bottom jeans" refers to a women's fashion and lifestyle brand launched by recording artist Nelly in 2003. Other pop culture references rapped on this song include New York's 1980 hardcore bar A7 and the "Kung-Fu grip," a hand design alteration on GI Joe dolls, which allowed its fingers to grip objects in a more lifelike fashion.
  • Did you know Lee Majors once inspired a hit record? Back in the early '70s, songwriter Jim Weatherly was a good friend of Majors, who had just started dating Farrah Fawcett. One day he called the actor and Fawcett answered the phone. She explained she was getting ready to take the midnight plane to Houston to visit her folks. Inspired, Weatherly penned the song "Midnight Train To Georgia," using Majors and Fawcett as characters.

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