William Shatner

Best known for his role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise, actor, author, producer, director, screenwriter, philanthropist, and singer William Shatner has also enjoyed a quixotic music career that began in 1968 with The Transformed Man. The thespian revealed himself to be as startlingly adept in tragedy as in comedy, and his spoken word renderings of pop hits and readings from classic plays quickly became a camp classic. He would devote the next 35 years to his career as an actor, but as The Transformed Man's cult following grew, Shatner...