coronavirus pandemic. “It was a sold-out audience: 3,500 people waiting for me.”But the “Star Trek” actor, who turned 90 on Monday, has never been the sort to twiddle his thumbs and stand idly by.
Captain Kirk got to work.“I wrote a song, ‘Monday in London,’ about wondering when the audience will be there, whether there would be any audience,” the occasional musician said. “I stepped out in front of the curtain, and 3,500 people had stayed.”Still, that uncertain day marked a radical change for the artist, who’s moved at warp speed since he first donned the yellow captain’s uniform on “Star Trek” in 1966.
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