You remember James T Kirk… er, I mean, William Shatner's last foray into musical endeavour? His stunning - and that's 'stunning' in the same way that a sharp blow to the head is stunning - rendition of The Beatles' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? Think that's the depths of JT Hooker… er, I mean, Shatner's depravity?

Think again.

Shatner has teamed up with Ben Folds, of Ben Folds Five, to record a slew of new tracks. According to XFM, the new album, ‘Has Been', will be released on the Shout! Factory label this September.

Earlier today I heard Shatner's cover of Pulp's Common People, and I can assure you, it will blow... you... a... way..., featuring as it does Shatner's thespy spoken-word vocals and Joe Jackson, (yes, that Joe Jackson), doing the wail-y impaled art student bits.

You really, really do need to listen to this. You absolutely must. I have scoured the web for a link to a full length version, but all I can find is this (fairly substantial) snippet. (Quicktime. Other formats available.)

You'll get the gist.

I must beg you, though - if anyone gets hold of the full length version, please, for the love of all that's right in this world, send it to me.

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who emailed me about this. You can now here this abomination, er, I mean, stroke of genius on the NME site.

UPDATE 2: Thank you to everyone who has, over the last nearly two years, sent me a copy of this song. It's very kind of you. To new visitors - fret not, I now have this song in my collection.