Douglas Adams – The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe(1980)

Biography
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams’s contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame. He also wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who; he also served as script editor for the show’s seventeenth season in 1979. A posthumous collection of his works, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, as a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh, and as a “devout atheist”. Adams’s official biography shares its name with the song “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd. Adams was friends with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and, on Adams’s 42nd birthday, he was invited to make a guest appearance at Pink Floyd’s concert of 28 October 1994 at Earls Court in London, playing guitar on the songs “Brain Damage” and “Eclipse”. Adams chose the name for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album, The Division Bell, by picking the words from the lyrics to one of its tracks, “High Hopes”.Gilmour also performed at Adams’s memorial service in 2001, and what would have been Adams’s 60th birthday party in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams

Album & Cover
In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (published in 1980), Zaphod is separated from the others and finds he is part of a conspiracy to uncover who really runs the Universe. Zaphod meets Zarniwoop, a conspirator and editor for The Guide, who knows where to find the secret ruler. Zaphod becomes briefly reunited with the others for a trip to Milliways, the restaurant of the title. Zaphod and Ford decide to steal a ship from there, which turns out to be a stunt ship pre-programmed to plunge into a star as a special effect in a stage show. Unable to change course, the main characters get Marvin to run the teleporter they find in the ship, which is working other than having no automatic control (someone must remain behind to operate it), and Marvin seemingly sacrifices himself. Zaphod and Trillian discover that the Universe is in the safe hands of a simple man living on a remote planet in a wooden shack with his cat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe

Cover Location: Hipgnosis Studio, London, UK.
Who Did What: Sleeve Design- Hipgnosis/ Ian Wright
Label: Original Records ORA 54(UK)
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Tracklist

Credits
Engineer – Adrian Sear
Executive-producer – Don Mousseau, Laurence Aston
Music By [Additional], Effects – Paddy Kingsland
Music By, Performer [Music], Producer [Music] – Tim Souster
Narrator [Arthur Dent] – Simon Jones (
Narrator [Captain Of The B Ark] – Frank Middlemass
Narrator [Ford Prefect] – Geoffrey McGivern
Narrator [Marketing Girl] – Loueen Willoughby
Narrator [Marvin] – Stephen Moore 
Narrator [Max Quordlepleen] – Roy Hudd
Narrator [Number Two, Hairdresser] – Stephen Grief
Narrator [Reg Nullify] – Graham De Wilde
Narrator [The Bodyguard, Number One Management Consultant, Radio Voice] – David Tate
Narrator [The Book] – Peter Jones 
Narrator [Trillian] – Cindy Oswin
Narrator [Zaphod Beeblebrox] – Mark Wing-Davey
Narrator [Zarquon The Prohpet, Garkbit] – Anthony Sharp
Producer – Geoffrey Perkins
Producer [Associate] – Tim Souster
Words By [All] – Douglas Adams
Written-by [Additional Material] – John Lloyd