"(I
Lost My
Heart to A) Starship Trooper", is a 1978 single written by
Jeff Calvert and
Max West of Typically Tropical and performed by Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip. It is notable as the debut of the then teenage Brightman as a singer, and reached number six in the UK Singles Chart.
The song is a lightweight space disco track that cashed in on the media
hype surrounding the original Star Wars film: the lyrics include the lines "And evil Darth Vader has been banished to
Mars" and "Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion". The song also samples
music from Star Wars, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (from 2001: A Space Odyssey), and the "spaceship communication" melody from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Many of the lyrics contain mild sexual innuendo; for example, "Take me, make me feel the force". Other television and film science fiction references are "Flash Gordon's left me, he's gone to the stars", "What my body needs is close encounter three", and "Fighting for the Federation" and "Static on the comm - it's Starfleet Command".
The song was performed on The Kenny
Everett Video Show by its regular
dance troupe Hot Gossip. Its lead, Sarah Brightman, was dressed in a silver catsuit and platform shoes.
Space suit is lying
On control room
Pulse rate increasing
As the
heat factor soars
Take me
Make me
Feel the force
Ignore the computers
We're locked on course
I
lost my
heart to a starship trooper
Flashing light in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquor space
