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"Science Fiction/Double Feature" is the opening song to the original 1973 musical stage production, The Rocky Horror Show as well as its 1975 film counterpart The Rocky Horror Picture Show, book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, musical arrangements by Richard Hartley.

The song is a tribute and send off to various B-movies and serials parodied in the show itself.

The song is made up of fragments from 50s sub-genre horror films and likened to that of Avant-gard artist Tristan Tzara by author Vera Dika in her book, "Recycled culture in contemporary art and film". Tzara would construct poems by taking snippets of words from newspapers and placing them into a bag to randomly draw from and arrange. Instead, the words in "Science Fiction Double Feature" are purposely made to rhyme with a set structure and set with phrases that create cohesion.

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