I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper

"I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper"
Single by Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip
B-side	"Do, Do, Do"
Released	1978
Format	7" single 12" single
Recorded	1978
Genre	Pop, Disco, Space disco
Length	3:42 4:19 (long version)
Label	Ariola Hansa
Writer(s)	Jeff Calvert, Geraint Hughes
Producer(s)	Steve Rowland

"I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper", sometimes cited as "(I Lost My Heart to A) Starship Trooper", is a 1978 single written by Jeff Calvert and Geraint Hughes of Typically Tropical and performed by Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip. It is notable as the debut of the then 18-year-old 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 he's been banished to Mars" and "Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion", and the titular "starship trooper" could refer to Luke Skywalker. 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 sexual innuendo; for example, "Take me, make me feel the force". Other science fiction references include: "I lost my heart to a starship trooper", "Flash Gordon's left me, he's gone to the stars", "What my body needs is close encounter three", "Static on the comm – it's Starfleet Command" and "Fighting for the " (which could refer to Star Trek, Blake's 7 or Starship Troopers).

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