Midnight Star (song)

Infobox Song
Name = Midnight Star
Type = Song
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Album = "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D


track_no = 2
Released = February 28, 1984
Format = Vinyl, Cassette, CD
Recorded = December 12, 1983
Genre = Comedy
Length = 4:35
Label = Scotti Brothers
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "Eat It"
# "Midnight Star"
# "The Brady Bunch"
# "Buy Me A Condo"
# "I Lost on Jeopardy"
# "Polkas On 45"
# "Mr. Popeil"
# "King of Suede"
# "That Boy Could Dance"
# "Theme From Rocky XIII (The Rye Or The Kaiser)"
# "Nature Trail to Hell"

Midnight Star is a song by “Weird Al” Yankovic, from his second album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D. It is about a man seeing a weekly supermarket tabloid and mistaking the false news for actual events.

Headlines from the Midnight Star

*Your Pet May be an Extraterrestrial.
*The Ghost of Elvis is Living in [Your] Den.
*You Can Learn to Cope With Stress.
*You Can Beat the IRS.
*The Incredible Frog-Boy is on the Loose Again.
*Aliens are Sleeping in [Your] Car.
*Eat Jelly Donuts and Lose Twenty Pounds a Day.
*Hear the Story of a Man Born Without a Head.
*Top Psychics All Agree that the Telephone Company will have a Brand new Service that Lets You Talk to the Dead.
*Hitler’s Brain is Being kept Alive in a Jar.
*How to Make your Bust-Line Grow.
*U.F.O.’s have Landed
*You can use Your ESP to learn to Play Guitar.

ee also

*List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic