Editing Douglas Adams (section)

===Music===
Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of 24 left-handed guitars when he died (having received his first guitar in 1964). He also studied piano in the 1960s.<ref>Webb, page 49.</ref> [[Pink Floyd]] and [[Procol Harum]] had important influence on his work. During his segment on music discussion programme ''[[Private Passions]]'', Adams remarked that he "would have loved to have been a rock musician".<ref>"[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10159992799720459 Douglas Adams]." ''[[Private Passions]]'', hosted by Michael Berkeley, BBC Radio 3, 13 September 1997. "...I would have loved to have been a rock musician. A couple of years ago I had an enormous extraordinary treat. I got to play one song live on stage with Pink Floyd at Earls Court..."</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=8 February 1996 |title=Douglas Adams at The Barbican |url=https://procolharum.com/dadams.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127085917/https://procolharum.com/dadams.htm |archive-date=27 November 2024 |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=procolharum.com |quote=I've been a very, very great fan of Gary Brooker and Procol Harum ever since nearly thirty years ago...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=3 September 2013 |title=Grand Designs |url=https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/grand-designs |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130090102/https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/grand-designs |archive-date=30 November 2024 |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=Record Collector Magazine}}</ref>

====Pink Floyd====
Adams's official biography shares its name with the song "[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)|Wish You Were Here]]" by [[Pink Floyd]]. The opening section of "[[Shine On You Crazy Diamond]]" was featured in a section of the third episode of the original 1978 [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' radio series]] (broadcast only, cut from commercial releases). 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 (Pink Floyd song)|Brain Damage]]" and "[[Eclipse (Pink Floyd song)|Eclipse]]".<ref name="Mabbett-MM">{{cite book |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-1-84938-370-7 |last=Mabbett |first=Andy |title=Pink Floyd – The Music and the Mystery |location=London |year=2010}}</ref> 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 (Pink Floyd song)|High Hopes]]".<ref name="Mabbett-MM" /> Pink Floyd and the song "[[Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun]]" in particular, inspired Adams to create the rock band Disaster Area who appear in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'', who planned to crash a space ship into a nearby star as a stunt during a concert.<ref>{{cite web |last=Perry |first=Kevin EG |date=25 May 2017 |title=Celebrate Towel Day with Disaster Area: The loudest band in the Galaxy |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/celebrate-towel-day-disaster-area-loudest-band-galaxy-2078072 |access-date=10 March 2022 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref> Gilmour also performed at Adams's memorial service in 2001, and what would have been Adams's 60th birthday party in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sale |first=Jonathan |date=2012-03-06 |title=Douglas Adams's 60th birthday marked with liff, the universe and Pink Floyd |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/06/douglas-adams-60th-birthday-party |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>