Derivative Uses of The Name
In music, Joe Meek wrote and recorded an instrumental song in 1962, named "Telstar"; it was performed by The Tornados, with sound effects produced by Meek running a pen around the rim of an ashtray, and then playing the tape of it in reverse. The song was covered by The Ventures, Bobby Rydell, and more recently, Takako Minekawa (on her 1998 album Cloudy Cloud Calculator). Dutch musician and producer Johnny Hoes founded his own record label in the early 1960s, which he named Telstar. It soon became one of the Netherlands' most successful independent record companies. Susanna Hoffs included "Wishing On Telstar" on her 1991 album When You're a Boy. The Scottish band Telstar Ponies included Teenage Fanclub drummer Brendan O'Hare.
In sports, the Adidas Telstar soccer ball was designed for use in the 1970 and 1974 FIFA World Cup tournaments, and its design has subsequently become the stereotypical look for a soccer ball. A Dutch soccer club was named SC Telstar after the satellites.
In video gaming, the Coleco Telstar was a 1970s video game console based on the General Instruments AY-3-8500 chip. There is an optional boss character called Telstar in the video game Final Fantasy VI.
Project: Telstar is an anthology of robot-and space-themed comics published in 2003 by AdHouse Books.
The Ford Telstar was the name of a Ford car sold in Asia, Australasia and Southern Africa.
Telstar Regional High School in Bethel, Maine, is named after the satellite.
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“Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it,—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country.... With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)